Author : Minnie Earl Sears
Publisher : H. W. Wilson
Page : 854 pages
File Size : 44,4 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780824209209
Provides a list of subject headings for use in smaller libraries.
Author : Vanda Broughton
Publisher : Facet Publishing
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 48,8 MB
Release : 2011-11-20
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1856046184
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 Library of Congress Subject Headings (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.
Author : Minnie Earl Sears
Publisher :
Page : 604 pages
File Size : 35,69 MB
Release : 1950
Category : Subject headings
ISBN :
Author : Karen Snow
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 183 pages
File Size : 12,36 MB
Release : 2021-07-28
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1538143011
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.
Author : Library of Congress
Publisher :
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 42,48 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Subject cataloging
ISBN :
Author : Lois Winkel
Publisher :
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 26,88 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780910608589
Provides a listing of subject headings applied by the Library of Congress to children's materials, each followed by the most appropriate classifiction number(s), based on the Abridged Dewey Decimal Classification, Edition 13; and includes a keyword index.
Author : Tanja Weiss
Publisher : Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 23,16 MB
Release : 2000
Category : English drama
ISBN : 9783631366349
This study is the first monograph that is dedicated to all three of Kenneth Branagh's Shakespeare adaptations. Unlike many other scholarly analyses of filmed literature, it focuses on the very mechanics of "adaptation", only then turning to the matter of "interpretation". The question of reception takes its place in the foreground, when the films are compared with their originals to point out how the adaptations were done. Analytical-descriptive interpretation builds up the framework of the detailed discussion. A thorough comparison between film and Elizabethan theatre preceeds the exploration of Branagh's Shakespeare treatments. The author's practical background in (screen)writing meets with her theoretical studies. The result of that unusual encounter in academic research is a fresh and unbiased approach to Branagh's successful adaptations, perhaps as fresh as the adaptor's approach to the classical dramatist.
Author : William Emmett Studwell
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 122 pages
File Size : 29,40 MB
Release : 1990
Category : Subject cataloging
ISBN : 1560240032
The first comprehensive theoretical treatise on Library of Congress subject headings, this important book provides an analysis of the Library of Congress subject heading system and its application. Library of Congress Subject Headings aims to help improve the clarity of the system, increase consistency and arrangement, increase the number of effective access points, facilitate the interaction of the system with the computer, and generally to make the Library of Congress subject heading system and its application of even greater value to the cataloger and the user. Practicing catalogers, library school personnel, advanced students, and any professional who is very knowledgeable about and seriously interested in Library of Congress subject headings will want to read this highly acclaimed volume.Author William Studwell includes theoretical, conceptual, and philosophical considerations based on 25 years of everyday practical cataloging and indexing work and the knowledge gained from theoretical research for the more than two dozen articles on subject cataloging that he has written in the last decade. He presents thought-provoking, often controversial material in three parts. The first section, "The System," deals with the basic philosophical foundations of LC subject headings. Thirty-two "principles"--guidelines and suggestions are offered along with detailed explanations, examples, and their relationships to other principles. The second section, "Application," focuses on the matters of subject cataloging practice, or interpretation and application of LC subject headings. The third section, "The Future," looks ahead to future issues relating to subject cataloging, such as the development of a theoretical subject heading code, the interface of LC subject headings with the computer, and some speculation as to the role and nature of LC subject headings in the years to come.
Author : Library of Congress
Publisher :
Page : 1164 pages
File Size : 30,14 MB
Release : 2013
Category : Subject headings, Library of Congress
ISBN :
Author : Library of Congress. Cataloging Policy and Support Office
Publisher :
Page : 1924 pages
File Size : 50,55 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Subject headings, Library of Congress
ISBN :
