Essential Library of Congress Subject Headings / Vanda Broughton.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Broughton, Vanda, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Library of Congress. Subject Cataloging Division. Library of Congress subject headings.

Library of Congress.

Subject cataloging.

Subject headings, Library of Congress.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (ix, 278 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

London : Facet, 2012.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Jul 2018).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781783300365

1783300361