Since early 2007, the Library of Congress has been developing Library of Congress Genre/Form Terms for Library and Archival Materials (LCGFT), whose terms describe what something is rather than what it is about, as subject headings do. In March 2015 the Policy and Standards Division (PSD) will approve approximately 390 genre/form terms for literary works. The literature genre/form project is a collaboration undertaken by PSD and the ALA/ALCTS Subject Analysis Committee's Subcommittee on Genre/Form Implementation, which formed the Working Group on LCGFT Literature Terms. PSD thanks the members of the Working Group for their time and effort. Special thanks are also due to MARCIVE, Inc., who created MARC records for the proposals from a Word document provided by the Working Group. For more information on the project and the Tentative List of terms, please see http://www.loc.gov/catdir/cpso/genreliterature.html. The terms appear on Tentative List 1515, to be approved on March 2, 2015. PSD is requesting comments on the proposed terms; please email Janis L. Young at <mailto:[email protected]> [email protected] through February 18, 2015. Janis L. Young Policy and Standards Division Library of Congress
