A Practical Guide to Library of Congress Subject Headings

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.

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