User’s Guide to Sears List of Subject Headings

M.P. Satija Professor Satija retired as Professor and Head from the Department of Library and Information Science, Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar, India and later as the UGC Emeritus Fellow. He is the author of DDC: A Practical Guide, 2nd, ed., published by OCLC and A Dictionary of Knowledge Organization, published in India, as well as some other twenty books and over 150 articles in peer-reviewed journals from India and abroad. Dr. Satija is a member editorial advisory board of the ISKO journal Knowledge Organization, as well as of the UDC Consortium, the Hague. He has served as visiting professor in many Indian and foreign universities in India, the Netherlands, South Korea, and Sri Lanka.

• Dedication Table of ContentsPrefacePart I: An Introduction to Controlled Vocabulary of theSears ListChapter One:Controlled VocabulariesChapter Two: Minnie Earl Sears: A Career SketchChapter Three: History and Chronology of the Sears List of Subject HeadingsChapter Four: About the 22nd edition of the Sears List Part II: Working with theSears ListChapter Five: Structure of the Sears ListChapter Six: Subject AnalysisChapter Seven: Principles of the Sears ListChapter Eight: Key HeadingsChapter Nine: Headings Omitted in the Sears ListChapter Ten: SubdivisionsChapter Eleven: Cross ReferencesChapter Twelve: Geographical Headings and SubdivisionsChapter Thirteen: Subject Headings for Languages and LinguisticsChapter Fourteen: Subject Headings for Literature and Literary WorksChapter Fifteen: Subject Headings for Biographies and AutobiographiesChapter Sixteen: Working with the Online SearsChapter Seventeen:Sears List of Subject Headings and MARC CodingChapter Eighteen: Publications Not Requiring Subject HeadingsAnswers to the Review Questions and ExercisesGlossary of TermsBibliographyIndexAbout the Author

Sears List of Subject Headings has become an important resource for small public and K-12 school libraries and heralded for its simplicity and attempts to promote the use of more natural language-based versions of the Library of Congress Subject Headings. Overall, the second edition of User’s Guide to Sears List of Subject Headings is an excellent textbook and guide to use when learning about and working with Sears List. I highly recommend considering it for purchase especially if you are involved in subject analysis training and instruction.