# Genres

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MARC Field: `655`

1st indicator: \[blank]

2nd indicator: `7`

subfield: `|2` = cited thesaurus code
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Optional subfields:

`|x` General subdivision

`|y` Chronological subdivision

`|z` Geographical subdivision

The optional subdivisions refer to the GENRE, not the subject matter, e.g. a 14th century herbal would be coded: `655_7` Herbals`|y`14th century.`|2`rbgenr

Do not use more than one subfield. Avoid them unless you feel they add very useful information or help avoid ambiguity. Prefer fields `648_4` and `651` for this info.
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## THESAURI WE USE

[Rare Books & Manuscripts](https://rbms.info/vocabularies/genre/alphabetical_list.htm) (**rbgenr**)

[Thesaurus for Graphic Materials](http://www.loc.gov/pictures/collection/tgm/) (Library of Congress) (**gmgpc**)

[Art & Architecture Thesaurus](https://www.getty.edu/research/tools/vocabularies/aat/) (Getty) (**aat**)

[Library of Congress](https://id.loc.gov/authorities/genreForms.html) (general) (**lcgft**)

Local to Wellcome Collection (**local**)

## GENRES

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Copy & paste genres into a new field in Sierra. They will format automatically with correct field tag
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`m655` 7 Abstracts.|2aat

`m655 7`Academic dissertations.|2rbgenr

`m655 7`Activity books.|2lcgft

`m655 7`Acrylic paintings.|2gmgpc

`m655 7`Addresses.|2rbgenr

`m655 7`Advertisements.|2gmgpc

`m655 7`Advertising cards.|2gmgpc

`m655 7`Albumen prints.|2gmgpc

`m655 7`Albums.|2rbgenr

`m655 7`Allegorical drawings.|2gmgpc

`m655 7`Allegorical paintings.|2gmgpc

`m655 7`Allegorical prints.|2gmgpc

`m655 7`Almanacs.|2rbgenr

`m655 7`Anatomical atlases.|2rbgenr

`m655 7`Anatomical fugitive sheets.|2local

`m655 7`Anecdotes.|2aat

`m655 7`Annual reports.|2rbgenr

`m655 7`Anthologies.|2rbgenr

`m655 7`Aquatints.|2gmgpc

`m655 7`Architectural drawings.|2gmgpc

`m655 0`Archives.

`m655 7`Artists' books.|2rbgenr

`m655 7`Asylum reports.|2local

`m655 7`Atlases (Geographic).|2rbgenr

`m655 7`Atlases (Scientific).|2rbgenr

`m655 7`Auction catalogues.|2rbgenr

`m655 7`Autobiographies.|2rbgenr <mark style="background-color:red;">(see note 1 below)</mark>

`m655 7`Badges.|2gmgpc

`m655 7`Bags.|2gmgpc

`m655 7`Banners.|2gmgpc

`m655 0`Bestiaries.

`m655 7`Bibliographies.|2rbgenr <mark style="background-color:red;">(see note 1 below)</mark>

`m655 7`Billheads.|2gmgpc

`m655 0`Bio-bibliographies. <mark style="background-color:red;">(see note 1 below)</mark>

`m655 7`Biographies.|2rbgenr <mark style="background-color:red;">(see note 1 below)</mark>

`m655 7`Bird's-eye views.|2gmgpc

`m655 7`Blank forms.|2rbgenr

`m655 7`Body art (visual works, performance).|2aat

`m655 7`Book illustrations.|2gmgpc

`m655 7`Bookmarks.|2gmgpc

`m655 7`Bookplates.|2gmgpc

`m655 7`Booksellers' advertisements.|2rbgenr

`m655 7`Booksellers' catalogues.|2rbgenr

`m655 7`Boxes.|2gmgpc

`m655 7`Braille books.|2lcgft (Braille periodicals is also available)

`m655 7`Broadsides.|2gmgpc

`m655 7`Business cards.|2gmgpc

`m655 7`Cabinet photographs.|2gmgpc

`m655 7`Calendars.|2gmgpc

`m655 7`Captivity narratives.|2rbgenr

`m655 7`Cards.|2gmgpc

`m655 7`Caricatures.|2gmgpc

`m655 7`Cartes de visite.|2gmgpc

`m655 7`Cartoons (Commentary).|2gmgpc

`m655 0`Case studies.

`m655 7`Catalogues.|2rbgenr

`m655 0`CD-ROMs.

`m655 7`Certificates.|2gmgpc

`m655 7`Chalk drawings.|2gmgpc

`m655 7`Charcoal drawings.|2gmgpc

`m655 7`Charts.|2gmgpc

`m655 7`Children's books.|2local <mark style="background-color:red;">(see note 2 below)</mark>

`m655 7`Chine collé prints.|2gmgpc

`m655 7`Chromolithographs.|2gmgpc

`m655 7`Cityscape photographs.|2gmgpc

`m655 7`Cityscape prints.|2gmgpc

`m655 7`Clippings.|2gmgpc

`m655 7`Clothing.|2aat

`m655 7`Collages.|2gmgpc

`m655 7`Collected biographies.|2local

`m655 7`Collected correspondence.|2local

`m655 7`Collected works.|2local

`m655 7`Collotypes.|2gmgpc

`m655 7`Colonial reports.|2local

`m655 7`Coloring books.|2lcgft

`m655 7`Comic books.|2rbgenr <mark style="background-color:red;">(see note 3 below)</mark>

`m655 7`Comics.|2gmgpc <mark style="background-color:red;">(see note 3 below)</mark>

`m655 7`Concert programmes.|2local

`m655 7`Condoms.|2local

`m655 7`Conference proceedings.|2local

`m655 7`Conference programs.|2rbgenr

`m655 7`Cookbooks.|2rbgenr

`m655 7`Crayon drawings.|2gmgpc

`m655 7`Crayon manner prints.|2gmgpc

`m655 7`Cut-paper works.|2gmgpc

`m655 7`Design drawings.|2gmgpc

`m655 7`Devotional images.|2gmgpc

`m655 7`Devotional literature.|2rbgenr

`m655 7`Diagrams.|2gmgpc

`m655 7`Diaries.|2rbgenr

`m655 7`Dictionaries.|2rbgenr <mark style="background-color:red;">(see note 4 below)</mark>

`m655 7`Dictionaries, Medical.|2local

`m655 7`Digital photographs.|2gmgpc

`m655 7`Digital zines.|2local <mark style="background-color:red;">(see note 5 below)</mark>

`m655 7`Diptychs.|2aat

`m655 7`Directories.|2rbgenr

`m655 0`Distemper painting.

`m655 7`Documentary television programmes.|2local

`m655 7`Drawings.|2gmgpc

`m655 0`DVDs.

`m655 0`Electronic books.

`m655 0`Electronic journals.

`m655 7`Encoded moving images.|2local

`m655 7`Encyclopedias.|2rbgenr

`m655 7`Engravings.|2gmgpc

`m655 7`Envelopes.|2gmgpc

`m655 7`Ephemera.|2rbgenr

`m655 7`Erotica.|2gmgpc

`m655 7`Essays.|2rbgenr

`m655 7`Etchings.|2gmgpc

`m655 7`Exhibition catalogues.|2rbgenr

`m655 7`Exhibition posters.|2gmgpc

`m655 7`Exploration literature.|2rbgenr

`m655 7`Facsimiles.|2gmgpc

`m655 7`Festschriften.|2rbgenr

`m655 7`Fiction.|2rbgenr

`m655 7`Flag books.|2lcgft

`m655 7`Fliers (Printed matter).|2gmgpc

`m655 7`Flip books.|2lcgft

`m655 7`Floor plans.|2gmgpc

`m655 7`Folk tales.|2rbgenr

`m655 7`Formularies.|2rbgenr

`m655 7`Frontispieces.|2gmgpc

`m655 7`Funeral addresses.|2rbgenr

`m655 7`Gazetteers.|2rbgenr

`m655 7`Gelatin silver prints.|2gmgpc

`m655 7`Genre photographs.|2gmgpc

`m655 7`Genre prints.|2gmgpc

`m655 7`Glass negatives.|2gmgpc

`m655 7`Glossaries.|2rbgenr <mark style="background-color:red;">(see note 4 below)</mark>

`m655 0`Goigs.

`m655 7`Gouaches.|2gmgpc

`m655 7`Grammars.|2rbgenr

`m655 7`Graphic medicine (Comics)|2lcgft <mark style="background-color:red;">(see note 3 below)</mark>

`m655 7`Graphic novels.|2lcgft <mark style="background-color:red;">(see note 3 below)</mark>

`m655 7`Graphite drawings.|2gmgpc

`m655 7`Group portraits.|2gmgpc

`m655 7`Guidebooks.|2rbgenr

`m655 7`Halftone photomechanical prints.|2gmgpc

`m655 7`Handbills.|2gmgpc

`m655 7`Herbals.|2rbgenr

`m655 7`Historical fiction.|2rbgenr

`m655 7`Hospital reports.|2local

`m655 7`Humorous pictures.|2gmgpc

`m655 7`Humor.|2lcgft

`m655 7`Hymns.|2rbgenr

`m655 7`Illustrated works.|2rbgenr

`m655 7`Illustrations.|2gmgpc

`m655 7`Incunabula.|2local

`m655 7`Indexes.|2rbgenr

`m655 7`Ink drawings.|2gmgpc

`m655 7`Instructional and educational works.|2lcgft

`m655 7`Intaglio prints.|2gmgpc

`m655 7`Interviews.|2rbgenr

`m655 7`Interviews, Recorded.|2local

`m655 7`Juvenile literature.|2rbgenr <mark style="background-color:red;">(see note 2 below)</mark>

`m655 7`Juvenilia.|2rbgenr <mark style="background-color:red;">(see note 2 below)</mark>

`m655 7`Labels.|2gmgpc

`m655 0`Laboratory manuals.

`m655 7`Landscape drawings.|2gmgpc

`m655 7`Landscape paintings.|2gmgpc

`m655 7`Landscape photographs.|2gmgpc

`m655 7`Landscape prints.|2gmgpc

`m655 7`Laws.|2rbgenr

`m655 7`Leaflets.|2gmgpc

`m655 7`Lectures.|2rbgenr

`m655 7`Letterheads.|2gmgpc

`m655 7`Letters.|2rbgenr

`m655 7`Library catalogues.|2rbgenr

`m655 7`Line photoengravings.|2gmgpc

`m655 7`Linocuts.|2gmgpc

`m655 0`Lithographed books.

`m655 7`Lithographs.|2gmgpc

`m655 7`Local histories.|2rbgenr

`m655 7`Magazine inserts.|2local

`m655 7`Manga (comic books).|2aat

`m655 7`Manuals (Handbooks).|2rbgenr

`m655 7`Manufacturers' catalogues.|2rbgenr

`m655 0`Manuscripts.

`m655 7`Maps.|2gmgpc

`m655 7`Medical formularies.|2rbgenr

`m655 7`Medical illustrations.|2gmgpc

`m655 7`Memoirs.|2rbgenr

`m655 7`Menus.|2gmgpc

`m655 7`Mezzotints.|2gmgpc

`m655 0`Microfiches.

`m655 7`Miniatures (Paintings).|2gmgpc

`m655 7`MOH reports.|2local

`m655 7`Motion picture posters.|2gmgpc

`m655 7`Motion pictures.|2lcgft

`m655 7`Motion study photographs.|2gmgpc

`m655 7`Museum catalogues.|2rbgenr

`m655 7`Musical works.|2rbgenr

`m655 7`Myths and legends.|2rbgenr

`m655 7`Narratives.|2rbgenr

`m655 7`News recordings.

`m655 7`Newsletters.|2rbgenr

`m655 7`Newspapers.|2rbgenr

`m655 7`Novels.|2rbgenr

`m655 7`Novelty works.|2gmgpc

`m655 7`Novenas.|2rbgenr

`m655 7`Obituaries.|2rbgenr

`m655 7`Oil paintings.|2gmgpc

`m655 0`Online databases.

`m655 7`Oral histories.|2rbgenr

`m655 0`Outlines.

`m655 7`Packaging.|2gmgpc

`m655 7`Paintings.|2gmgpc

`m655 7`Pamphlets.|2gmgpc

`m655 7`Panoramic views.|2gmgpc

`m655 7`Pastels (Visual works).|2gmgpc

`m655 7`Patents.|2lcgft

`m655 7`Pathographies.|2local

`m655 7`Pencil works.|2gmgpc

`m655 7`Periodical illustrations.|2gmgpc

`m655 7`Periodicals.|2rbgenr <mark style="background-color:blue;">(underground periodicals also exists, for radical/grassroots etc.)</mark>

`m655 7`Perzines.|2local (See note 5 below)

`m655 7`Pharmacopoeias.|2rbgenr

`m655 7`Photobooks.|2lcgft

m655 7 Photocopies.|2aat

`m655 7`Photograph albums.|2gmgpc

`m655 7`Photographic postcards.|2gmgpc

`m655 7`Photographic prints.|2gmgpc

`m655 7`Photographs.|2gmgpc

`m655 7`Photogravures.|2gmgpc

`m655 7`Photolithographs.|2gmgpc

`m655 7`Photomechanical prints.|2gmgpc

`m655 7`Plans.|2gmgpc

`m655 7`Platinum prints.|2gmgpc

`m655 7`Plays.|2rbgenr

`m655 7`Poems.|2rbgenr

`m655 7`Political cartoons.|2gmgpc

`m655 7`Political posters.|2gmgpc

`m655 0`Popular works.

`m655 0`Pop-up books.|2lcgft

`m655 7`Portrait drawings.|2gmgpc

`m655 7`Portrait paintings.|2gmgpc

`m655 7`Portrait photographs.|2gmgpc

`m655 7`Portrait prints.|2gmgpc

`m655 0`Portrait sculpture.

`m655 7`Portraits.|2gmgpc

`m655 7`Postage stamps.|2gmgpc

`m655 7`Postal stationery.|2gmgpc

`m655 7`Postcards.|2gmgpc

`m655 7`Posters.|2gmgpc

`m655 7`Prayer books.|2rbgenr

`m655 7`Prayers.|2rbgenr

`m655 7`Price lists.|2rbgenr

`m655 7`Prints.|2gmgpc

`m655 7`Proclamations.|2rbgenr

`m655 7`Programmes.|2local

`m655 7`Prospectuses.|2rbgenr

`m655 7`Protest works.|2gmgpc

`m655 7`Publishers' catalogues.|2rbgenr

`m655 7`Puzzles.|2gmgpc

`m655 7`Quadriptychs.|2aat

`m655 7`Questions and answers.|2rbgenr

`m655 7`Quick Ref. Collection.|2local

`m655 7`Radiographs.|2gmgpc

`m655 7`Readers.|2rbgenr

`m655 0`Recipes.

`m655 0`Registers.

`m655 7`Regulations.|2rbgenr

`m655 7`Resource guides.|2local

`m655 7`Review literature.|2local

`m655 7`Risographs.|2lcgft

`m655 7`Sales catalogues.|2rbgenr

`m655 7`Satires.|2rbgenr

`m655 7`Satires (Visual works).|2gmgpc

`m655 7`Science fiction.|2rbgenr

`m655 7`Scores.|2rbgenr

`m655 7`Scrapbooks.|2gmgpc

`m655 7`Screen prints.|2gmgpc

`m655 7`Sculpture.|2gmgpc

`m655 7`Self-help publications.|2lcgft

`m655 7`Self-portraits.|2gmgpc

`m655 7`Sermons.|2rbgenr

`m655 7`Short stories.|2rbgenr

`m655 7`Signs (Notices).|2gmgpc

`m655 7`Silhouettes.|2gmgpc

`m655 7`Sketchbooks.|2gmgpc

`m655 7`Sketches.|2gmgpc

`m655 7`Soft-ground etchings.|2gmgpc

`m655 7`Song sheets.|2rbgenr

`m655 7`Songs.|2rbgenr

`m655 0`Sound recordings.

`m655 7`Stationery.|2gmgpc

`m655 7`Statistics.|2local

`m655 7`Steel engravings.|2gmgpc

`m655 7`Stereographs.|2gmgpc

`m655 7`Stereoscopes.|2aat

`m655 7`Stickers.|2gmgpc

`m655 7`Stipple engravings.|2gmgpc

`m655 7`Student works.|2gmgpc

`m655 7`Student Collection.|2local

`m655 7`Studio debates.|2local

`m655 7`Study guides.|2local

`m655 7`Subscribers' lists.|2rbgenr

`m655 0`Tables (Systematic lists).

`m655 0`Tankas (Tibetan scrolls).

`m655 7`Tarot cards.|2gmgpc

`m655 7`Textbooks.|2rbgenr

`m655 7`Theater programs.|2rbgenr

`m655 7`Then & now comparisons.|2gmgpc

`m655 7`Thesauri.|2rbgenr

`m655 7`Tickets.|2gmgpc

`m655 7`Title pages.|2gmgpc

`m655 7`Toy and movable books.|2lcgft

`m655 7`Trade cards.|2gmgpc

`m655 7`Trade catalogues.|2rbgenr

`m655 7`Travel literature.|2rbgenr

`m655 7`Travel sketches.|2gmgpc

`m655 7`Treaties.|2rbgenr

`m655 7`Trial proceedings.|2rbgenr

`m655 7`Triptychs.|2aat

`m655 7`Tunnel books.|2lcgft

`m655 7`Underground periodicals.|2lcgft

`m655 7`Union lists.|2local

`m655 7`Urban landscapes.|2aat

`m655 0`Vanitas (Art).

`m655 0`Video recordings.

`m655 0`Videocassettes.

`m655 7`Viewbooks.|2rbgenr

`m655 0`Votive offerings.

`m655 7`Wash drawings.|2gmgpc

`m655 7`Watercolors.|2gmgpc

`m655 7`Wet collodion negatives.|2gmgpc

`m655 7`Women in filmmaking.|2local

`m655 7`Women in printmaking.|2local

`m655 7`Wood blocks (printing blocks).|2aat

`m655 7`Wood engravings.|2gmgpc

`m655 7`Woodburytypes.|2gmgpc

`m655 7`Woodcuts.|2gmgpc

`m655 7`Yearbooks.|2rbgenr

`m655 7`Zincographs.|2gmgpc

`m655 7`Zines.|2lcgft <mark style="background-color:red;">(see note 5 below)</mark>

`m655 7`Zines about zines.|2local <mark style="background-color:red;">(see note 5 below)</mark>

### NOTES

1. **Biographies, bibliographies, autobiographies, bio-bibliographies**

Do not bring these subjects out by the use of subject headings unless the work is actually about the biographical/bibliographical process.

Typically you should use a topical main heading for the specialty/specialist and a separate 655 for the genre, e.g.

`60010`Franklin, Rosalind,`|d`1920-1958.

`650_0`Crystallographers.

`655_7`Biographies.`|2`rbgenr

2. **Children's books / Juvenilia**

Use `655_7`**Children’s books.**`|2`local for works created **for** **children** (i.e. picture books).

Use `655_7`**Juvenile literature.**`|2`rbgenr for works created **for** **older children/teenagers**.

Use `655_7`**Juvenilia.**`|2`rbgenr for works **created by children**.

3. **Comic books / Graphic novels / Graphic medicine**

Use `655_7`**Graphic novel.**`|2`lcgft for collections of comic book series which are **bound volumes**, or a **long-form narrative in comic-strip format** (includes fiction, non-fiction, and anthologized work)

Use `655_7`**Comic books.**`|2`rbgenr for comics/cartoons/sequential art in **pamphlet form** (usually part of a series/periodical)

Use `655_7`**Comics.**`|2`gmgpc for **comics or cartoon strips** (i.e. comic zines, or anthologies with comic strips in other collected works)

Use `655_7`**Webcomics.**`|2`lcgft for **online comics**, or Internet comics are published on a website; while most are published exclusively on the web.

Use `655_7`**Graphic medicine.**`|2`local alongside one of the above genres when material fits with [Graphic Medicine's manifesto](https://www.graphicmedicine.org/#/graphic-medicine/4531707343), which describes the term as representing "the interaction between the medium of comics and the discourse of healthcare".

4. **Dictionaries, glossaries**

When subdividing Dictionaries or Glossaries by language, you may use subfield `|x`, e.g. `655_7`Dictionaries`|x`**Finnish.**`|2`rbgenr

Let English language be assumed, so that even in the case of a two-way translating dictionary (English-Finnish, Finnish-English), the heading above will suffice.

However, a heading such as `655_7`**Dictionaries**`|x`**Greek-Latin.**`|2`rbgenr is permissible.

5. **Zines / Perzines**

`655_7`**Zines.**`|2`lcgft will be in every zine record as standard.

`m655 7`Digital zines.|2local will be added ONLY to born digital zines ingested through Goobi

`m655 7`Zines about zines.|2local add for "professional collection" type zines, ensure [additional note is included](https://docs.wellcomecollection.org/collections-information/lQ0fMyP8xr8hWWJiQkfl/library-cataloguing/bibliographic-record/5xx#zines)

Add extra heading `655_7`**Perzines.**`|2`local when a work describes itself as a perzine or is predominantly autobiographical in nature.
