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Essential Library of Congress Subject Headings

Essential Library of Congress Subject Headings

by Vanda Broughton
Paperback
Publication Date: 20/11/2011

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Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH) are increasingly seen as 'the' English language controlled vocabulary, despite their lack of a theoretical foundation, and their evident US bias. In mapping exercises between national subject heading lists, and in exercises in digital resource organization and management, LCSH are often chosen because of the lack of any other widely accepted English language standard for subject cataloguing. It is therefore important that the basic nature of LCSH, their advantages, and their limitations, are well understood both by LIS practitioners and those in the wider information community.

Information professionals who attended library school before 1995 - and many more recent library school graduates - are unlikely to have had a formal introduction to LCSH. Paraprofessionals who undertake cataloguing are similarly unlikely to have enjoyed an induction to the broad principles of LCSH. This is the first compact guide to LCSH written from a UK viewpoint.

Key topics include:

background and history of LCSH

subject heading lists

structure and display in LCSH

form of entry

application of LCSH

document analysis

main headings

topical, geographical and free-floating sub-divisions

building compound headings

name headings

headings for literature, art, music, history and law

LCSH in the online environment.

Readership: There is a strong emphasis throughout on worked examples and practical exercises in the application of the scheme, and a full glossary of terms is supplied. No prior knowledge or experience of subject cataloguing is assumed. This is an indispensable guide to LCSH for practitioners and students alike.
ISBN:
9781856046183
9781856046183
Category:
Bibliographic & subject control
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
20-11-2011
Publisher:
Facet Publishing
Country of origin:
United Kingdom
Pages:
288
Dimensions (mm):
235x162x17mm
Weight:
0.2kg

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