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About Genre/Form Searches
Genre/form headings describe categories of materials by their theme, style, or physical format. They indicate what the work is, rather than what it is about. A Genre search on the term documentary films, for instance, identifies examples of documentary films, while a Subject search on the term documentary films will identify materials about documentary films.
The assignment of genre headings is relatively new in library cataloging, and searches will not retrieve all examples of a genre or form. In the Summit catalog, genre headings are used most frequently for rare or special collections materials, fiction, and film.