Theology Cataloging Bulletin Section 3 
Vol. 18, No. 4—August 2010 
 

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Separate Form/Genre Thesaurus to be Established 

 
The Policy and Standards Division (PSD) of the Library of Congress announced plans on 
June 17, 2010 to formally separate form/genre terms from the Library of Congress Subject 
Headings (LCSH) list.  The title of the thesaurus will be the Library of Congress Genre/Form 
Terms for Library and Archival Materials (LCGFT), and it will be published later this summer in 
the Supplemental Vocabularies volume of the 32nd edition of LCSH.  In MARC21 
bibliographic records, the genre/form terms will appear in the 655 field with a second 
indicator of “7” and the source code “lcgft” will be placed in subfield $2 (e.g., 655 -7 $a 
[Term]. $2 lcgft).  In MARC21 Authority records, the 008/11 will be coded “z” (Other), and 
the 040 $f field will be coded “lcgft”. LCCN’s for the genre/form terms will contain the 
prefix “gf”. The timeline for implementation will be late 2010 or early 2011.  Further details 
can be found on the PSD Web site 
(http://www.loc.gov/catdir/cpso/genreformthesaurus.html) 
 
OCLC  Webinar: Karen Smith-Yoshimura on Transitioning 

from and Beyond MARC 
 
OCLC has posted links to the webinar (63.6 MB/ 1:28 min.) and slides (4.2 MB/42pp.) of 
Karen Smith-Yoshimura’s presentation to the 2010 RLG Annual Partnership meeting held 
in Chicago June 10, 2010) at  http://www.oclc.org/research/events/20100610marc.pptx. 
The webinar can be viewed by visiting 
http://www5.oclc.org/downloads/research/webinars/20100610marc.m4v. She reviews the 
findings of working groups that analyzed MARC tag usage and its import for metadata 
practices. 
 

Online Audiovisual Catalogers (OLAC) Conference 
 
If you catalog audiovisual materials and have a yearning to go to Georgia, you may be 
interested in attending the next OLAC conference, which will be October 14-17, 2010 in 
Macon, Georgia.  Online registration is available now.  Details are on their Web site  
( http://www.olacinc.org/drupal/conference/2010/index.html). 
 

LYRASIS Educational Opportunities 
 
The following online courses are being offered soon.  For a complete list of Summer 2010 
courses offered by LYRASIS, see their PDF schedule at 
http://www.lyrasis.org/~/media/Files/Lyrasis/Classes%20and%20Events/Class%20Sched
ules/LYRASIS%20Summer%20Class%20Schedule%202010.ashx. 
LibraryThing for Libraries and You (10 AM-noon, August 17) 
Basic MARC Tagging for Serials (10 AM-noon, August 17-18) 
Koha Advanced Functions (10AM-noon, August 18) 
Evergreen Cataloging Module (2-4 PM, August 18-19)