Practical Guide to Library of Congress Subject Headings

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Av Karen Snow

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Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH) is used by more libraries worldwide than any other controlled vocabulary system. Yet, many librarians and paraprofessional staff do not have any formal education or training in LCSH. They find themselves having to decipher or construct LCSH strings and don’t know where to begin.Here’s a resource that uses language non-catalogers can understand and provides hands-on, user-friendly training in LCSH.Here Karen Snow transfers her popular LCSH workshops and continuing education courses to book form for those who can’t attend her courses.This book offers material on the basics of subject analysis, the importance of controlled vocabularies, and the main features and principles of LCSH. It explains and provides guidance on the application of LCSH. Library of Congress’ instruction manual for LCSH, the Subject Headings Manual, is discussed at length. Several chapters concentrate on assigning LCSH to resources of a certain focus or genre: fiction works, biographical works (or works that focus heavily on a certain person or their works), and resources that emphasize a geographic location. A separate chapter on encoding subject information in the Machine-Readable Cataloging (MARC) standard will be particularly useful for library staff. Most chapters contain exercises (with answers at the end of the book) that test a reader’s understanding of the chapter material and provide opportunities to practice applying LCSH and subdivisions.

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Utgivningsdatum2021-08-03
Mått155 x 230 x 12 mm
Vikt268 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor182
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN9781538143001

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Karen Snow is an associate professor and PhD program director in the School of Information Studies at Dominican University, River Forest, Illinois. She teaches cataloging, classification, and metadata courses and has written many journal articles on cataloging topics and cataloging education. She is the author of A Practical Guide to Library of Congress Classification published in 2017. Snow holds a Master’s degree in library science and a PhD in information science from the University of North Texas (UNT), where she cataloged for UNT’s main library, the Rare Book Room, and the University Archives.Snow has taught many LCSH workshops to continuing education groups and teaches LCSH in her courses at Dominican.

AcknowledgementsPrefaceChapter 1 - Library of Congress Subject Headings in a Nutshell Chapter 2 - Basic Principles of Subject AnalysisChapter 3 - Searching and Browsing LCSH in Classification WebChapter 4 - Subdivisions and Free-Floating SubdivisionsChapter 5 - MARC Coding of LCSHChapter 6 - The Subject Headings Manual (SHM)Chapter 7 - Geographic Subject Headings and SubdivisionsChapter 8 - Personal Name Subject Headings and BiographiesChapter 9 - FictionChapter 10 - Conclusion; LCSH ResourcesAppendix A: Answers to End-of-Chapter ExercisesAppendix B: Free-Floating Subdivisions: Form and TopicalAppendix C: Free-Floating Subdivisions: Names of PlacesAppendix D: Free-Floating Subdivisions: Names of PersonsGlossaryIndex

Snow masterfully analyzes the Library of Congress subject headings, which libraries worldwide use to indicate topics for library resources. Snow delves into the subject in a straightforward way, providing plenty of exercises and examples to explain the concepts and functionality of subject headings, even to non-catalogers. In a simple and methodical style, she helps readers construct complicated strings of subjects that include several subdivisions, such as topical, form, chronological, and geographic. She delineates the history, components, scope, relationships, and patterns of subject headings, thereby covering the fundamentals and intricacies of subject headings. Of particular interest to library staff will be her explanation of MARC coding for subjects. Particularly noteworthy is the chapter on usage of the classification web tool to explain hierarchical, associative, and equivalence relationships; classification numbers; and free-floating subdivisions. Snow's analysis and application of the Subject Headings Manual takes readers' understanding to the next level. This book provides guidelines for correct usage and in-depth knowledge of constructing subject headings. Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty, professionals, and students in two-year programs.