diff --git a/check_dtypes.py b/check_dtypes.py
index 5925b48..b5736df 100644
--- a/check_dtypes.py
+++ b/check_dtypes.py
@@ -24,6 +24,7 @@ EXPECTED_TYPES = {
         r"titleInfo_partName": ("object", ["str", "NoneType"]),
         r"identifier-.*": ("object", ["str", "NoneType"]),
         r"location_.*": ("object", ["str", "NoneType"]),
+        r"name\d+_.*roleTerm": ("object", ["ndarray", "NoneType"]),
         r"name\d+_.*": ("object", ["str", "NoneType"]),
         r"relatedItem-.*_recordInfo_recordIdentifier": ("object", ["str", "NoneType"]),
         r"typeOfResource": ("object", ["str", "NoneType"]),
@@ -32,11 +33,10 @@ EXPECTED_TYPES = {
 
         r".*-count": ("Int64", None),
 
-        # XXX possibly sets:
-        r"genre-.*": ("object", ["str", "NoneType"]),
-        r"subject-.*": ("object", ["str", "NoneType"]),
-        r"language_.*Term": ("object", ["str", "NoneType"]),
-        r"classification-.*": ("object", ["str", "NoneType"]),
+        r"genre-.*": ("object", ["ndarray", "NoneType"]),
+        r"subject-.*": ("object", ["ndarray", "NoneType"]),
+        r"language_.*Term": ("object", ["ndarray", "NoneType"]),
+        r"classification-.*": ("object", ["ndarray", "NoneType"]),
 
         # page_info
 
diff --git a/src/mods4pandas/lib.py b/src/mods4pandas/lib.py
index 4d85a9e..68050b1 100644
--- a/src/mods4pandas/lib.py
+++ b/src/mods4pandas/lib.py
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 from __future__ import annotations
 
+import ast
 from itertools import groupby
 import re
 import warnings
@@ -383,8 +384,7 @@ def convert_db_to_parquet(con, table, index_col, output_file):
         elif column_type == "bool":
             df[c] = df[c].map({"True": True, "False": False}).astype("boolean")
         elif column_type == "set":
-            # TODO WIP
-            continue
+            df[c] = df[c].apply(lambda s: list(ast.literal_eval(s)) if s else None)
         else:
             raise NotImplementedError(f"Column {c}: type {column_type} not implemented yet.")