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Here's a resource that uses language non-catalogers can understand and provides hands-on, user-friendly training in LCSH. The book offers a brief history of LCSH, discusses basic principles of subject analysis, explains the key principles of LCSH, and details how to choose and apply LCSH subject headings and subheadings.
List of contents
Acknowledgements
Preface
Chapter 1 - Library of Congress Subject Headings in a Nutshell
Chapter 2 - Basic Principles of Subject Analysis
Chapter 3 - Searching and Browsing LCSH in Classification Web
Chapter 4 - Subdivisions and Free-Floating Subdivisions
Chapter 5 - MARC Coding of LCSH
Chapter 6 - The Subject Headings Manual (SHM)
Chapter 7 - Geographic Subject Headings and Subdivisions
Chapter 8 - Personal Name Subject Headings and Biographies
Chapter 9 - Fiction
Chapter 10 - Conclusion; LCSH Resources
Appendix A: Answers to End-of-Chapter Exercises
Appendix B: Free-Floating Subdivisions: Form and Topical
Appendix C: Free-Floating Subdivisions: Names of Places
Appendix D: Free-Floating Subdivisions: Names of Persons
Glossary
Index
About the author
Karen Snow is an associate professor and PhD program director in the School of Information Studies at Dominican University, River Forest, Illinois. She teaches cataloging, classification, and metadata courses and has written many journal articles on cataloging topics and cataloging education. She is the author of A Practical Guide to Library of Congress Classification published in 2017.
Snow holds a Master's degree in library science and a PhD in information science from the University of North Texas (UNT), where she cataloged for UNT's main library, the Rare Book Room, and the University Archives.
Snow has taught many LCSH workshops to continuing education groups and teaches LCSH in her courses at Dominican.
Summary
Here’s a resource that uses language non-catalogers can understand and provides hands-on, user-friendly training in LCSH. The book offers a brief history of LCSH, discusses basic principles of subject analysis, explains the key principles of LCSH, and details how to choose and apply LCSH subject headings and subheadings.
