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Subject Headings & Classification
Or, why catalogers don’t seem to think like normal people
IDS4930: 5 February 2013Slide2
Got collections?
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At some point, a system is needed…
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Subject Headings
“The LCSH (Library of Congress Subject Headings) were created by thousands of catalogers over the course of 100 years using a strict set of ever-changing rules
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Heidi Lee
Hoerman
School of Library and Information Science,U. of South Carolina.http://bit.ly/YR02My Slide5
Subject Headings
Can beIdeas/concepts
Events
Places (even imaginary ones)
People (even imaginary ones)Slide6
Narrowing It Down
Subdivisions can beGeographic (United States, Florida, etc.)
Chronology (dates; these are NOT the same for all headings)
Form (what kind of a thing it is: Periodicals, Dictionaries, Blogs, etc.)
Topic (Religious aspects, economic aspects)Slide7
What is This?
Image source: http://pixabay.com/en/users/Hans/ (Public domain image)Slide8
Why???
Parsnip, but also
Philodrendrons
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Working class
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omen was established about 1985, Working class men in 2005!Neighbors was not a subject heading until 2006Mosquito nets was not a subject heading until 2008 – and this term was requested and created by a cataloger at UF. Often, but NOT always, scientific names are used for plants and animals. If your research involves the sciences, use the authority file to find the correct LCSH. It will save much trouble.
LCSH suggestions courtesy of Christopher Walker, The Pennsylvania State University Slide9
And some are just … odd…
LCSH suggestion courtesy of Kevin Furniss, Tulane UniversitySlide10
Library of Congress Classification
Get the big picture:
http://www.loc.gov/catdir/cpso/lcco
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So What Do You Do?
Search keywords, but then look at the whole record and click the subject heading that matches your idea
Check your subject or name at
http://authorities.loc.gov
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Yes, We Have Fiction in West!
Not the same amount or kind as the public library, but we do. Here are some of the secret tips:
Authors are sorted by nationality and/or language; British authors and American authors are in different classes.
You can often find criticism of important books near that book, or near the end of all books by the author.
Look around. You may discover authors who were popular in your parents’, grandparents’, or great-grandparents’ time, but have fallen out of favor.Slide13
Some Numbers: American Authors
Dashiell Hammett: PS3515.A4347
Shirley Jackson: PS3519.A392
James Weldon Johnson: PS3519.O2625
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Mary Higgins Clark: PS3553.L287
Stephen King: PS3561.I483 Barbara Kingsolver: PS3561.I496Amy Tan: PS3570.A48Slide14
Some Numbers: British Authors
Agatha Christie: PR6005.H66Mary Renault: PR6035.E55
J.R.R. Tolkien: PR6039.O32
Evelyn Waugh: PR6045.A9
P.G. Wodehouse: PR6045.O53
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Douglas Adams: PR6051.D3352Ian Fleming: PR6056.L4P.D. James: PR6060.A467Slide15
PZ
We also have the PZ call number for many items.
Cover image source: GoodreadsSlide16
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Please Ask!
Naomi Young
Principal Serials Cataloger
naomi@uflib.ufl.edu
See a mistake in the UF or union catalog? (Typos, the wrong contents note, something obvious like that? )
catproblems@uflib.ufl.edu