Subject Cataloging: Subject Heading Proposals, Workflow

Submitting SACO Proposals for Internal Review Each cataloger will create and submit his/her own SACO proposals. The SACO liaison will review each cataloger's proposals until that cataloger is declared independent. After the cataloger inputs and saves their subject proposal in Minaret, they submit it to the SACO liaison for review. If they are cataloging a… Read More

Category Classes

Category classes are reserved for those types of publications most commonly issued by Federal agencies. Use the following numbers when establishing new classes. Category classes most frequently used: Example .1 Annual reports  .2 General publications .8 Handbooks, manuals, and guides .11 Maps and… Read More

Class Stems

The class stem in a classification number consists of letters and numbers including in this order: Letter author symbols for the parent issuing body. Numbers indicating subordinate offices, followed by a period. Numbers designating category classes, series, or serial title. The class stem generally ends in a colon. Some class stems… Read More

Subject Cataloging: Subject Heading Proposals, Background and Tips

GPO proposes new subject authority records, and changes to existing ones, according to the instructions in the Library of Congress' (LC) Subject Headings Manual (SHM). If a subject heading is needed for the resource cataloged, that is not found in OCLC's subject authority file, or if the heading is found but requires additional authority work, such as the addition of… Read More

Subject Cataloging: General Policies

The inclusion of subject access points in catalog records aids users to retrieve information and to identify and locate specific resources based on subjects. Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH) The Library of Congress' (LC's) Subject Headings Manual (SHM) provides for the establishment of Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH) for topical concepts… Read More

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Name Authorities: AACR2, Corporate Bodies

Use this section in conjunction with the following sources: AACR2, chapters 24, 26 LCRIs, chapters 24, 26 (GPO followed all LCRIs) GPO policy essentially precludes the application of AACR2 and LCRIs to all name authority work. Auth status - 008/33 c - Provisional level is used at GPO for foreign languages where no expertise exists, and for a… Read More

Name Authorities: RDA, General Policies

This section focuses only on general policies for all RDA name authority records. More detailed information is provided in the topic specific articles.Use this section in conjunction with Name Authorities: Policy Overview and the PCC document: MARC 21 Encoding to Accommodate New RDA Elements 046 and 3XX in NARs and SARs.Field Specific GuidelinesOptional RDA attribute… Read More

Name Authorities: General Field Specific Guidelines

043 - Geographic Area Code Include in records for geographic names, which are tagged 151, and reside in the LC NACO file. 1XX and 4XX Include commas in a series of words except before an ampersand (but also include a comma before an ampersand if such a comma is found in actual usage), in order to maintain consistency with pre-existing authorized access points,… Read More

Name Authorities: General Procedures

Optional FieldsFor the optional fields in a name authority record, include or add these fields whenever the information is readily available in the resource being cataloged, and can quickly be added. No significant research should be done, and no extra sources need be consulted, to find values for the optional attributes in a name authority record.Research in OCLCPersonal… Read More
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