This just appeared on the Archives list.  Thought it might interest some,
since we were just talking about it.  Mary

Mary K. Mannix
Library Director
Howard County Historical Society
PO Box 109
Ellicott City, MD 21041
410-750-0370    410-955-3028 (fax)
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Date: Mon, 11 Mar 1996 09:00:09 EST
From: ARDEN ALEXANDER <[log in to unmask]>
To: Multiple recipients of list ARCHIVES <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: NEW WWW RESOURCE: TGM I

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Subject:      NEW WWW RESOURCE: TGM I
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           The 1995 edition of the Library of Congress publication "Thesau
           rus for Graphic Materials I" (TGM I) is now available on the Wo
           rld Wide Web.  The thesaurus contains over 5,500 subject terms
           and 4,300 cross-references compiled and used by the Prints & Ph
           otographs Division of the Library of Congress and libraries and
            archives across the country to catalog and provide subject acc
           ess for visual materials.  The introduction contains guidelines
            for indexing images as well as sample records.  The World Wide
            Web version of TGM I will be updated regularly with new vocabu
           lary.  You can view TGM I at the following URL: http:--lcweb.lo
           c.gov-rr-print-tgm1-  (The dashes are backslashes).

           Arden Alexander, Prints and Photographs Div., LC