Thesaurus       Genre Terms

            Term               Bookmarks

            Hierarchy        [Purpose of work]

SN                   Use for unattached devices intended to be inserted between leaves in a book as a place marker.

            UF                   Book-marks

                                    Bookmarkers

                                    Book-markers

                                    Markers

            BT                    Ephemera

 

 

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Bookmarks 

Term: Bookmarks

Thesaurus: Genre Terms

Submitted by: Silke Schaeper, The Library, St John's College St Giles, Oxford OX1 3JP

 

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Term record as found in AAT [1] (mandatory) 

Devices put between the leaves of books to mark a . Distinguished from "registers (book components)," which are attached to books.

 

Terms: bookmarks (<reading equipment>, <equipment by process>, ... Furnishings and Equipment)

book-marks

bookmark

Related concepts:

Registers (book components):ribbons attached to books, used for for marking a place by insertion between the leaves. Distinguished from "bookmarks," which are unattached.

 

Term record as found in LCSH [2]:

 

Bookmarks [no scope note] 1988-

Book-marks [pre 1988]

 

Term record as found in GMGPC [3](mandatory):

 

Paper, cardboard, cloth, or other markers used to hold a place in a book.

 

Term record as found in GSAFD [4](mandatory):X

 

Term record as found in MeSH [5](mandatory):X

 

Term record as found in MIM [6](mandatory):X

 

Term record as found in the Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition [7](mandatory):

 

A strip of card, leather, ribbon, or other material, inserted between the pages of a book to mark a place; esp. an item made specifically for this purpose, often with a decorative design. Also fig. and in extended use.

 

Term record as found in Webster’s 3rd New International Dictionary of the English Language (mandatory):

 

A narrow strip of material (as an attached ribbon, an insertable card, or a leather slip) to mark a place in a book

 

Term as found in Random House Unabridged Dictionary, 2nd edition (optional):

 

Term as found in source/hierarchical displays/definitions, other sources, &c.: 

 

 

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Hierarchy: Purpose of Work (Gathering Term)

 

Proposed SN: Use for a narrow strip of paper, cloth, or other material used between leaves in a book as a place marker.

 

UF: Book-marks 

UF: Bookmarkers

UF: Book-markers

UF: Markers

 

Warrant: Rickards, Maurice. The Encyclopedia of Ephemera, a Guide to the Fragmentary Documents of Everyday Life for the Collector, Curator, and Historian. New York: Routledge, 2000, p. 59

     "Bookmark. The device used for keeping the reader's place in a book was known in the Middle AGes as a 'register' and in the early 19th century as a 'marker'. The advent of the printed bookmark in the 1870s necessitated a printed title and on Victorian bookmarks both 'Bookmark' and 'Bookmarker' (with or without hyphens) were used indiscriminately with the former the most common. Both terms continue in use today. ..."

 

BT: Ephemera

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Editorial team member & date: Annie Copeland April 23, 2008

 

Comments: "When trying to allocate a genre term for a "bookmark"

printed in 1926, I chose "bookseller's advertisements".

However, the scopenote of "bookseller's advertisements" seems to

indicate that it should be used for earlier material only [or did I

misinterpret this?]. Silke Schaeper