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Transcription Rules | Call Numbers | Fixed Field | 245 | 260 | 300 | 4XX/8XX | 5XX | 6XX Biographies | 6XX Pa. Imprints | 6XX Subdivisions | 655 | 700/710 | 773
Add 655 fields as appropriate from the list below. The second indicator should be 7 and must have |2 giving the code for the source of the term. If the genre term is from Library of Congress subject headings, the second indicator should be 0 and not have a |2 subfield.
Some form/genre terms are hyperlinked to notes that follow the list for more information.
See also: OCLC Bibliographic Formats and Standards: 655
Note: Only add these for what the item IS or the GENRE it belongs to, not what the item is about.
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655 _7 Accordion fold format (Binding) |2rbbin (UF Accordion books)
655 _7 Adventure fiction. |2gsafd
655 _7 Advertisements. |2aat
655 _7 Allegories. |2gsafd
655 _7 Alternative histories (fiction) |2gsafd
655 _7 Artists’ books |z[Geographical region] |z[Geographical sub-region] |y[year]. |2rbgenr
655 _7 Baptismal certificates |z[Geographical region] |z[Geographical sub-region]. |2aat
655 _7 Bildungsromans. |2gsafd
655 _7 Biographical fiction. |2gsafd
655 _7 Birth certificates |z[Geographical region] |z[Geographical sub-region]. |2aat
655 _7 Black-and-white photographs. |2aat
655 _7 Black humor (Literature) |2gsafd (UF Black comedy; Dark humor)
655 _7 Broadsides. |2aat
655 _7 Cartes-de-visite. |2aat
655 _7 Clippings (information artifacts) |2aat (UF Newspaper clippings)
655 _7 Color lithographs. |2aat
655 _7 Color wheels. |2aat
655 _7 Comedies. |2gsafd (UF Humorous plays)
655 _7 Diaries. |2aat
655 _7 Didactic fiction. |2gsafd
655 _7 Drafts (documents) |2aat
655 _7 Dystopias. |2gsafd (UF Dystopian fiction; Anti-utopias)
655 _7 Fables. |2gsafd
655 _7 Fairy tales. |2gsafd
655 _7 Fantasy fiction. |2gsafd
655 _7 Fliers (printer matter) |2aat
655 _7 Folded books. |2aat (UF Accordion books, also see Accordion… above)
655 _7 Folklore. |2gsafd
655 _7 Frakturs (documents). |2aat
655 _7 Galley proofs. |2aat
655 _7 Ghost stories. |2gsafd
655 _7 Harlequinades. |2aat (UF Metamorphic pictures)
655 _7 Holographs (autographs) |2aat
655 _7 Horror fiction. |2gsafd
655 _7 Humorous fiction. |2gsafd
655 _7 Humorous poetry. |2gsafd
655 _7 Hymns. |2aat
655 _7 Jestbooks |z[Geographical region] |z[Geographical sub-region] |y[year]. |2rbgenr
655 _7 Journals (accounts) |2aat
655 _7 Letters (correspondence) |2aat
655 _7 Magazines (periodicals) |2aat
655 _7 Manuscripts (document genre) |2aat
655 _7 Manuscripts for publication. |2aat
655 _7 Mezzotints (prints) |2aat
655 _7 Minutes. |2aat
655 _7 Mystery fiction. |2gsafd
655 _7 Notes. |2aat
655 _7 Page proofs. |2aat
655 _7 Pen works. |2gmgpc
655 _7 Photographic postcards. |2aat
655 _7 Photographs. |2aat
655 _7 Picture postcards. |2aat
655 _7 Playbills. |2aat
655 _7 Pochoir. |2aat
655 _7 Poems. |2aat
655 _7 Portraits. |2aat
655 _7 Postal cards. |2aat
655 _7 Postcards. |2aat
655 _7 Posters |z[Geographical region] |z[Geographical sub-region] |y[year]. |2rbgenr
655 _7 Printers' proofs. |2aat
655 _7 Programs. |2aat
655 _7 Proofs (printed matter) |2aat
655 _7 Receipts (financial records) |2aat
655 _7 Scrapbooks. |2aat
655 _7 Science fiction. |2gsafd
655 _7 Sea stories. |2gsafd
655 _7 Signatures (names) |2aat (not binders' notations)
655 _7 Tall tales. |2gsafd
655 _7 Travel diaries. |2 aat (post coordinated terms per Sue H. 9/05)
655 _7 Uncorrected proofs (Printing) |z[Geographical region] |z[Geographical sub-region] |y[year]. |2rbpri
655 _7 Utopian fiction. |2gsafd
655 _7 Visiting cards. |2aat
655 _7 Volvelles. |2aat
655 _7 War stories. |2gsafd
Use for works characterized by an emphasis on physical and often violent action, exotic locales, and danger, generally with little character development. (source: gsafd)
Use for works of fiction which contain a secondary meaning embodied in the narrative, often moral or spiritual in nature. A novel belonging to this genre is John Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress. (source: gsafd)
Use for novels in which the theme is the development of a character from youth to adulthood. An example is Charles Dickens' Great Expectations. (source: gsafd)
Refers to a broad class of photographs having images in gray tones, black, and white, and sometimes one hue (which can result from chemical processes used, including toning, or from aging). (source: aat)
Use for works characterized by a desperate, sardonic humor intended to induce laughter as the appropriate response to the apparent meaninglessness and absurdity of existence. (source: gsafd)
Refers to small-format photographs affixed to card stock, particularly the card photographs patented by the Parisian photographer André-Adolphe-Eugène Disdéri in 1854 and similar items produced by Mathew B. Brady and other photographers. They went out of fashion in the 1870s. The photographs were typically portraits and the image was a standard size of 3 1/4 x 2 1/4 inches; they were generally produced by a multiple-lens camera that created several images on a single full-sized negative plate. Full-size prints from the plate were cut into sections measuring 4 x 2 1/2 inches, and the pieces were often mounted on cards, which initially served as visitors' cards; it later became the custom to exchange them on birthdays and holidays, and to collect cartes-de-visite of friends, family members, and celebrities in albums. (source: aat)
Illustrations, pages, articles, or columns of text removed from books, newspapers, journals, or other printed sources. (source: aat)
Circular charts with wedge-shaped segments of contiguous spectral hues comprising primary colors (e.g., red), secondary colors (e.g., orange), and tertiary colors (e.g., red-orange), with complementary colors (e.g., orange and blue) placed opposite one another. Color wheels may vary depending upon whether they are intended to illustrate mixing of colored pigments, color perception, or color psychology. (source: aat)
Refers to books containing the daily, personal accounts of the writer's own experiences, attitudes, and observations. Use "Journals (accounts)" when referring to an individual's or an organization's account of occurrences or transactions. (source: aat)
Use for works that are primarily intended to teach a lesson. (source: gsafd)
Preliminary or tentative versions of documents. (source: aat)
Literally, "bad place." Use for works that are accounts of imaginary worlds, usually in the future, in which present tendencies, beliefs, principles, or theories are carried out to their intensely unpleasant culmination. Examples include George Orwell's 1984 and Aldous Huxley's Brave New World. (source: gsafd)
Use for tales intended to teach moral lessons, often with animals or inanimate objects speaking and acting like human beings and usually with the lesson stated briefly at the end. A novel belonging to this genre is George Orwell's Animal Farm. (source: gsafd)
Use for short simple narratives often of folk origin and usually intended for children, involving fantastic forces and magical beings such as dragons, elves, fairies, goblins, witches and wizards. (source: gsafd)
Use for works that feature imaginary worlds, extraordinary creatures, sorcerers, epic quests or magic. (source: gsafd)
Books consisting of a long strip of paper folded accordion-fashion and attached at one or both ends to stiff covers. When a book consists of double leaves with folds at the fore edge and with free edges sewn together to make a fascicle, use "Traditional format." (source: aat)
Use for traditional beliefs, legends, and customs of a people; often based on spoken rather than written tradition. (source: gsafd)
Documents, of Pennsylvania German origin and common in the 18th and 19th centuries, often family records such as birth certificates, decorated in a particular style of calligraphy and illumination. (source: aat)
First proofs printed from type, usually meaning those printed before it is made up into pages. (source: aat)
Books popular in the 18th and 19th centuries, originally often depicting harlequins, in which folded parts of pages are lifted to reveal new pictures, fitted neatly onto the remaining parts of the previous pictures. (source: aat)
Documents wholly written in the hand of the author; used especially in law with regard to wills and deeds. (source: aat)
Books containing accounts of an individual's or organization's occurrences or transactions, including records of financial transactions. Use "Diaries" when referring to personal accounts of the writer's experiences, attitudes, or observations. (source: aat)
Refers to handwritten documents, and may also be used to distinguish certain documents from published or otherwise printed documents, as in the cases of typed personal letters or a typescript from which printed versions are made. (source: aat)
Prints made using the mezzotint process, in which the surface of the plate is methodically roughened with a rocker to produce a dark background; areas may then be lightened using various scrapers. (source: aat)
Brief statements of a fact or experience, written down for review, or as an aid to memory, or to inform someone else; also includes short, informal letters. (source: aat)
Proofs printed from matter that has been composed into pages, usually after galley corrections have been made but before plates are made. (source: aat)
Postcards that have on one side an image produced with light-sensitive materials directly on the card. (source: aat)
Refers to still images produced from radiation-sensitive materials (sensitive to light, electron beams, or nuclear radiation), generally by means of the chemical action of light on a sensitive film, paper, glass, or metal. It does not include reproductive prints of documents and technical drawings, for which descriptors found under "<reprographic copies>" are more appropriate. Photographs may be positive or negative, opaque or transparent. (source: aat)
Postcards having a pictorial image on one side. (source: aat)
Programs or posters announcing a theatrical performance. (source: aat)
Cards sold by the post office with postage stamps already printed on them. (source: aat)
Cards on which a message may be written or printed for mailing without an envelope, usually at a lower rate than that for letters in envelopes. (source: aat)
Proofs designated for the printer who produces an edition of prints, occasionally marked P.P. Sometimes the same as the bon a tirer proof for the edition. Printers' proofs are generally identical to impressions of the regular edition except for annotations identifying them as a proof. They can also be used as galley or page proofs on which printers and typographers can make queries and corrections for the client or artist to check, mark, and return; for this use such proofs are usually stamped "MASTER PROOF" or "MARKED SET." (source: aat)
Brief outlines or explanations of the order to be pursued, criteria for participation, or the subjects embraced in a given event or endeavor. Includes lists of the features composing a dramatic or other performance, with the names of participants. (source: aat)
Refers to trial sheets of printed matter that are checked against original manuscripts and on which errors can be corrected and alterations made. (source: aat)
Use for works of fantasy that deal with possible though not necessarily probable events and are based approximately on scientific principles, e.g. space travel, time travel, etc. Use also for works in which mankind confronts alien cultures or environments. For works that deal with non-existent, incredible, or unreal worlds, characters, and physical principles, use Fantasy fiction. (source: gsafd)
Persons' names written in their own hand. (source: aat)
Use for tales and short stories as well as novels and novellas (short novels) characterized by bragging and exaggeration of the truth. (source: gsafd)
Use for works which depict an ideal society. Novels in this genre include H.G. Wells' Men Like Gods and Edward Bellamy's Looking Backward. (source: gsafd)
Small cards bearing the name, and sometimes the address of a person or married couple for presentation, as when formally calling or visiting. (source: aat)
Any of various reckoning devices consisting of movable discs surmounted by or carrying other graduated or figured circles for calculating, for example, phases of the moon, the time of the rising or setting sun, or the times of the tides; usually made of paper, cardboard, or vellum and often found preprinted in or attached to manuscripts or books of the 13th to the 16th century. (source: aat)
Use for stories dealing with wars, campaigns or battles from the military angle. Do not use for stories dealing with the social aspects of wartime life. For novels belonging to another genre and with a wartime setting, prefer the heading for that genre, e.g., Adventure fiction, Mystery fiction, etc. (source: gsafd)
