The Policy and Standards Division of the Library of Congress plans to cancel sport-specific moving image genre/form terms from /Library of Congress Genre/Form Terms for Library and Archival Materials/ (/LCGFT/) on June 18, 2012. In all, 24 terms of the type *[sport] films* and *[sport] television programs* (e.g., *Curling films*; *Tennis television programs*) will be cancelled.
/Library of Congress Subject Headings/ (/LCSH/) policy, which permits headings to be established based on the terminology used in works about the films, is unchanged. Therefore, if a work is written about curling films, for example, a proposal may be made to add curling films to /LCSH/.
The rationale for cancelling the sport-specific genre/form terms, along with the list of terms to be cancelled, is available on the Library of Congress' web site at http://www.loc.gov/catdir/cpso/genre_form_sports_terms_cancellation.pdf.
Janis L. Young Policy and Standards Division Library of Congress
