Backstage is pleased to announce the immediate availability of two new thesauri for your genre/form matching. Both the RBMS and TGM databases can be added, at no extra cost, to your profile. Please just let your project managers (Jeremy Myntti <mailto:jmyntti@bslw.com?subject=RBMS%20and%20TGM%20Thesauri> , Judy Archer <mailto:jarcher@bslw.com?subject=RBMS%20and%20TGM%20Thesauri> ) know and we will have it added in time for your next bibliographic processing. Details about each thesauri are below. RBMS - Rare Books and Manuscript Section - Association of College and Research Libraries, Division of American Library Association These thesauri provide standardized vocabulary for retrieving special collections materials by form, genre, or by various physical characteristics that are typically of interest to researchers and special collections librarians, for relating materials to individuals or corporate bodies. rbbin binding terms 307 records rbgenr genre terms 501 records rbpap paper terms 290 records pri printing evidence 152 records rbprov provenance evidence 82 records rbpub publishing evidence 39 records rbrel relator terms 71 records rbtyp type evidence 130 records New MARC organization code created for RBMS terms: IlChRBM Backstage would like to recognize the effort of the following people for helping us obtain and convert the RBMS genre file: Deborah Leslie, Folger Shakespeare Library <http://www.folger.edu/> Jim Kuhn, Folger Shakespeare Library <http://www.folger.edu/> Ryan Hildebrand, University of Texas at Austin <http://www.utexas.edu/> Jason Kovari, University of Mississippi <http://www.olemiss.edu/> Stephen Skuce, MIT <http://www.mit.edu/> Nina Schneider, UCLA <http://www.ucla.edu/> TGM - Thesaurus for Graphic Materials The Thesaurus for Graphic Materials is a tool for indexing visual materials by subject and genre/format. The thesaurus includes more than 7,000 subject terms to index topic shown or reflected in pictures, and 650 genre/format terms to index types of photographs, prints, design drawings, ephemera, and other categories. TGM records are no longer maintained as MARC authority records; rather, they are saved as ASCII text and XML files. Backstage converted these two types of files, generating both MARC subject and genre authority records. gmgpc genre terms 670 records lcgtm subject terms 7,142 records Backstage would also like to extend a special vote of thanks to Jeremy Myntti for his efforts in working with all parties inside and outside of Backstage to get these databases ready for our clients. -- Nate Cothran - nate@bslw.com <mailto:nate@bslw.com?subject=Automation%20Services%20-%20Query> Vice President, Automation Services Backstage Library Works 533 E 1860 S Provo, UT 84606 (v) 800.288.1265 x697 | (f) 801.356.8220 | www.bslw.com www.ac.bslw.com/community/blog <http://ac.bslw.com/community/blog/>