UID:
almafu_9960118917902883
Format:
1 online resource (ix, 278 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
ISBN:
1-78330-036-1
Content:
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.
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Jul 2018).
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Introduction -- History and principles of LCSH -- Subject heading lists and the problems of language -- Format and display of LCSH -- The choice and form of headings -- Content analysis -- Assigning main headings -- Structured headings -- Topical subdivisions -- Geographic subdivisions -- Free-floating subdivisions -- More complex headings: combining the different types of subdivisions -- Chronological headings and subdivisions -- Name headings -- Literature and the arts -- Headings for music -- Classification web -- LCSH in the online world -- Bibliography -- Glossary -- Index.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-85604-618-4
Language:
English
URL:
Volltext
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URL:
https://doi.org/10.29085/9781783300365
