# Presentation: 681804

## Genre/Form Headings for Moving Images

- Janis L. Young
- for
- LC CPSO

## Agenda

- General objectives of the genre/form heading projects
- Background for the moving image project
- Form of headings
- Application of headings
- Timeline

## Objective 1

- To assist in retrieval by providing access points for the forms and genres of expressions, in addition to headings describing subject content

## Objective 2

- To create a system of authority records that:
- Permits future development and maintenance by LC and eventually by other libraries, patterned after the routines established for LCSH as a whole
- Supports automatic validation of headings assigned to bibliographic records

## Objective 3

- To determine the issues that will arise in the creation and use of such thesauri, in order to determine whether to expand the project beyond moving images, recorded sound, and musical compositions

## Rationale for project order

- The moving images project is the first to go into production
- LC’s Motion Picture/Broadcasting/Recorded Sound Division (MBRS) approached CPSO in 2003
- MBRS wants a system that can be maintained; MIGFG has no editorial staff
- The moving image genre/form terms constitute a small, defined subgroup in LCSH
- This small project will help us identify and solve problems that we will encounter with larger projects

## Rationale for project order

- “Small, defined?”
- All applicable headings currently coded with MARC tag 150 are NTs of “Motion pictures,” “Television programs,” or “Video recordings”
- MIGFG includes ca. 150 terms, many of which are already represented in LCSH
- Other reference sources, particularly *Moving Image Materials: Genre Terms* (MIMs), will be consulted as necessary and appropriate

## Form of headings

- Goal is to keep the genre/form headings as closely in synch with topical headings as possible
- To aid collocation
- To assist users
- Exceptions may be made as warranted, on a case-by-case basis

## Form of headings

- If LCSH already includes a heading:
- For cases in which the 150 and 155 headings are identical, the scope of the two headings will also be identical
- The hierarchical structure will generally be retained, with the exception of the top terms
- The goal is to have a 155 for every 150 “topical genre/form” heading in LCSH

## Form of headings 

- If LCSH does not already include the heading:
- An appropriate genre/form heading will be constructed based on MIGFG, MIMs, or other thesauri

## Form of headings 

- Problems with individual headings will be resolved on a case-by-case basis
- Examples of solutions:
- The scope of the topical heading may be altered
- The wording of the genre/form heading may be altered so that the topical and genre/form headings are not in conflict
- References may be removed from existing headings and established as headings in their own right

## Form of headings

- No geographic subdivision
- Do not want to duplicate what is found elsewhere in the record
- What would it mean?
- Setting
- Place of production
- Place of distribution

## Form of headings

- No provision for language
- Not strictly part of the genre
- Language is already provided for in the descriptive elements

## Form of headings

- Original release of the work
- Intent is to provide genre/form access to the expression, not to the manifestation (i.e., the intellectual or artistic expression of a work, not its physical carrier (VHS, DVD, electronic, etc.))

## Form of headings

- Should films and videos be combined into one heading?
**Horror films** instead of **Horror films** and **Horror videos** (i.e., broaden the meaning of the word “film”)
- Use explicit references or scope notes to explain the combination?

## Application

- Apply as many genre/form headings as desired
- Apply headings from multiple levels of hierarchy if desired
- Always apply **Fiction films** or **Nonfiction films**?

## Delivery of records

- Genre/form terms will appear in a separate section in the front of volume 1 of the printed LCSH (the “Big Red Books”)
- Genre/form terms will have their own entry point on the main menu of Classification Web

## Updating the thesaurus

- Currently, two LC catalogers are making all of the records
- After a test period, other LC and PCC catalogers will be invited to make proposal submissions
- The proposal and approval mechanisms employed for other LCSH headings will be employed for genre/form headings

## Timeline:  Completed steps

- 2003: MBRS approached CPSO
- 2006: CPSO announced the moving images project
- May 4, 2007:  CDS announced the upcoming planned release of records
- May 11, 2007:  CPSO posted a draft of H1913, Moving Image Genre/Form Headings, for public comment
- June 12, 2007:  CPSO posted proposed headings for public comment

## Timeline:  Future plans

- June 22-26:  CPSO is holding information sessions at ALA and gathering comments
- July-August:  H1913 will be revised
- August:  Some records will appear on (a) Tentative Weekly List(s)
- September 3 or later:  The first group of records will be distributed through CDS
- TBD:  An announcement will be made that SACO participants are welcome to submit proposals

## Questions and comments?

- Please e-mail Janis Young at jayo@loc.gov