Subject Headings for School and Public Libraries: An Lcsh/Sears Companion
by Fountain, Joanna F.Edition: 3rd
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2001-03-15
Publisher(s): Libraries Unltd Inc
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Summary
A first-check source for the most frequently used headings needed in media centers and public libraries, this book has several thousand new and revised entries to assist in applying LCSH and AC headings. Of the approximately 30,000 headings listed, thousands include cross-references. MARC codes are included with ambiguous headings to simplify entering them into computerized catalogs.
Author Biography
JOANNA F. FOUNTAIN is Adjunct Professor, Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of Texas, Austin, and an independent cataloging consultant.
Table of Contents
| Foreword | ix | ||||
| Preface | xi | ||||
| Background | xi | ||||
| Acknowledgments | xi | ||||
| Introduction | xiii | ||||
| The Library of Congress's Annotated Card Program | xiii | ||||
| Format of the Subject Heading List | xiii | ||||
| Using the Subject Heading List | xiv | ||||
| Using Free-floating Phrase Headings | xv | ||||
| No Longer Free-floating | xv | ||||
| Using Free-floating Subdivisions | xv | ||||
| Types of Subdivisions | xv | ||||
| Pattern Headings | xvi | ||||
| Categories with No Pattern Headings | xvi | ||||
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| A Few Caveats | xviii | ||||
| Format of the Free-floating Subdivision List | xviii | ||||
| Key to Free-floating Subdivisions | xix | ||||
| Free-floating Subdivisions | xx | ||||
| Subject Headings | |||||
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