Essential Library of Congress Subject Headings - Couverture souple

Broughton, Vanda

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1555706401 ISBN 13 : 9781555706401

Editeur : Neal-Schuman Publishers Inc, 2012

Synopsis

Here's a crucial resource for anyone unfamiliar with Library of Congress Subject Headings. This book provides not only their background and history but also their advantages and their limitations. You'll learn the forms of entry, subject heading lists, main headings, compound headings, name headings, headings for literature, art, music, history and law, and subject headings in the online environment.No prior knowledge or experience of subject cataloguing is assumed. This is an indispensable guide to LCSH for practitioners and students alike.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH) are now very widely used in academic and special libraries in the United Kingdom; in the United States they are also found in public libraries. Although LCSH have a long history in their country of origin, in the UK they are a relatively recent phenomenon. Their use dates back to the mid-1990s when the availability of web mounted catalogues made US bibliographic records more visible to the wider library community, and the era of copy cataloguing and shared bibliographic data began. At the same time, the decision of the British Library to reintroduce LCSH to the British National Bibliography gave further impetus to their adoption. 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. There is currently no compact guide to LCSH written from a UK viewpoint, and this eminently practical text fills that gap. 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; and LCSH in the online environment. 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.

Biographie de l'auteur

Vanda Broughton MA DipLib is a Lecturer in Library & Information Studies at the School of Library, Archive and Information Studies, University College London. She has taught, written and led training courses on classification for many years. She is joint editor of the new edition of the Bliss Bibliographic Classification scheme, is a member of the UDC revision working group, and also of the UK Classification Research Group.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Neal-Schuman Publishers Inc
• Date d'édition: 2012
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1555706401
• ISBN 13: 9781555706401
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 192
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible