[DCRM-L] RBMS vocabulary updates December 2025

[Hoover, Sarah]

Dear colleagues,

The RBMS Controlled Vocabulary for Rare Materials Cataloging<https://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/rbmscv.html> (CVRMC) and RBMS Relationship Designators<https://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/rbmsrel.html> have been updated, and new terms are available for use.

The new term added to CVRMC in this update is:

  *   Notated music waste

New Relationship Designators added in this update are:

  *   cover artist
  *   dust jacket artist

There is one updated Relationship Designator:

  *   dust jacket designer [formerly bookjacket designer]

In addition, 18 CVRMC terms and 23 Relationship Designators have new or revised scope notes. A full list of updates<https://rbms.info/cv-comments/2025/12/19/december-2025-vocabulary-update/> is available on the RBMS Controlled Vocabularies Community Discussion Blog.

Thank you for helping to continue to build these resources, and please feel free to share this announcement with your colleagues!

Best,
Sarah Hoover and Jenny Bradshaw
Co-editors, RBMS Controlled Vocabularies Editorial Group


Sarah Hoover
Interim Head of Bibliographic Cataloging for Special Collections
Wilson Special Collections Library
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
sehoover at email.unc.edu<mailto:sehoover at email.unc.edu>
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