The Policy and Standards Division has published a draft of the Genre/Form Terms Manual, the instruction manual for Library of Congress Genre/Form Terms for Library and Archival Materials (LCGFT). The manual consists of guidelines and instructions for assigning genre/form terms and proposing new ones, as well as for proposing revisions to existing terms. It replaces the informal and occasionally ad-hoc guidelines for assigning genre/form terms that have been in place since the project to develop LCGFT began in 2007.
Special thanks go to the ALA/ALCTS Subject Analysis Committee's Subcommittee on Genre/Form Implementation, which edited an early draft of the Manual. The Manual may be found in PDF form at http://www.loc.gov/aba/publications/FreeLCGFT/freelcgft.html. It will be incorporated into Cataloger's Desktop, LC's subscription-based online documentation service, in late 2016. Comments on the draft may be directed to Janis L. Young at [email protected] through May 31, 2016. Janis L. Young Policy and Standards Division Library of Congress
