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Dear cataloging staff,<br><br>
I just wanted to alert you to some recent subject heading changes for
geographic areas made by LC:<br><br>
-- "Asia, Southeastern" has been changed to "Southeast
Asia"<br><br>
-- "Great Lakes" has been changed to "Great Lakes (North
America)"<br><br>
-- Qualifiers at the end of certain Caribbean places will be changing and
geographic subdivision for those places will be done indirectly rather
than directly (see below).<br><br>
Yesterday we finished cleaning up the subject headings in Orbis for
Southeast Asia (including geographical subdivisions). Next we'll be
turning to the Great Lakes.<br><br>
Manon Th�roux<br>
Authority Control Librarian<br>
Catalog Department, SML, 2-8376<br><br>
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Date: Thu, 6 Oct 2005
09:51:57 -0400<br>
Sender: Subject Authority Cooperative Program
<SACOLIST@loc.gov><br>
From: CPSO <cpso@loc.gov><br>
Subject: Summary of Decisions, Editorial Meeting 05/40<br><br>
CATALOGING POLICY AND SUPPORT OFFICE <br>
SUMMARY OF DECISIONS, EDITORIAL MEETING NUMBER 40<br><br>
October 5, 2005<br><br>
<x-tab> </x-tab><x-tab>
</x-tab>Present from
CPSO:<x-tab> </x-tab>L. El-Hoshy, B.
Bellinger, R. Goudreau, D. Thompson<br><br>
CLASSIFICATION<br><br>
<x-tab> </x-tab>
PG9049.26.A32-PG9050.36.V57<br>
<x-tab> </x-tab><x-tab>
</x-tab>These proposals
to print the Cutters and names of current and 20th century literary
authors are not necessary. The criteria for including individual
literary authors in the P classification schedules are given in F632,
sec. 3. <br>
<x-tab> </x-tab><x-tab>
</x-tab><br><br>
SUBJECT HEADINGS<br><br>
<x-tab> </x-tab>
Subdivisions to be added to lists of free-floating subdivisions:<br><br>
<x-tab> </x-tab><x-tab>
</x-tab>H 1140,
Places<br>
<x-tab> </x-tab><x-tab>
</x-tab><x-tab>
</x-tab>$x Kings
and rulers $x Deposition<br><br>
<x-tab> </x-tab>Other
decisions:<br><br>
<x-tab> </x-tab>Bonaire
Marine Park (Bonaire) CANCEL replaced by Bonaire Marine Park (Netherlands
Antilles); Caracas Bay (Cura�ao) CANCEL replaced by Caracas Bay
(Netherlands Antilles)<br>
<x-tab> </x-tab><x-tab>
</x-tab>These proposals
to revise the qualifiers on headings for geographic features on
individual islands of the Netherlands Antilles are being undertaken to
bring the qualifiers in line with the policy stated in instruction sheet
H 810 sec. 2.d.(2) to qualify an entity on an island by the name of the
larger jurisdiction to which the island belongs rather than by the island
name. <font color="#800080">In addition, a change in policy
regarding the assignment of Caribbean islands as geographic subdivisions
is now in force. The statement in instruction sheet H 807 sec. 2.c.
regarding the assignment of individual Caribbean islands south of the
Virgin Islands directly after subjects regardless of their present
political status should no longer be followed. Henceforth, headings
for Caribbean islands and geographic features on those islands should be
treated in the same manner as headings for islands in other parts of the
world. Islands that are independent countries or country
equivalents, such as Dominica and Martinique, should continue to be
assigned directly. Geographic entities on those islands should be
assigned indirectly through the island country. Islands that form a
part of a multi-island country or country equivalent, such as Bonaire and
Cura�ao, which are part of the Netherlands Antilles, should now be
assigned indirectly through the heading for the country, </font>e.g.,
Marine algae--Netherlands Antilles--Bonaire. Geographic entities on
those islands should be assigned indirectly through the country, e.g.,
Skin diving--Netherlands Antilles--Bonaire Marine Park. Geographic
subdivision forms that are recorded in 781 fields of geographic subject
authority records are being updated to reflect this policy change.
Statements and examples in H 807 will be revised for the 2006 Update
Number 1 of the Subject Cataloging Manual: Subject
Headings. <br>
<br>
<x-tab> </x-tab>Spy comic
books, strips, etc.; War comic books, strips, etc.<br>
<x-tab> </x-tab><x-tab>
</x-tab>These proposals
to establish "Spy comic books, strips, etc." and "War
comic books, strips, etc." were not approved. As stated in the
Summary of Decisions for WL02-14, "the usual way of expressing the
concept of comic books or strips about a particular topic in LCSH is to
use the free-floating form subdivision --Comic books, strips, etc. after
the appropriate topical heading, e.g., War--Comic books, strips,
etc." Because comic books and strips that focus on particular
topics may be either fiction or nonfiction, the meeting wishes to
continue the practice of using the standard free-floating subdivision
following topical headings and to limit the form headings for comic books
to those that already exist for fictional genres, e.g., Fantasy comic
books, strips, etc.; Science fiction comic books, strips,
etc. <br><br>
<x-tab> </x-tab>Weight
loss in nursing home patients<br>
<x-tab> </x-tab><x-tab>
</x-tab>It has been the
practice in LCSH to establish specific headings for medical or
physiological conditions and phenomena in groups of people only in the
general age and sex groups, e.g., Color vision in children; Eating
disorders in women. For conditions in other groups of people, the heading
for the condition is assigned in combination with the heading for the
group with an appropriate subdivision. This proposal to establish a
heading for "Weight loss in nursing home patients" was
therefore not approved. The heading Weight loss should be assigned
along with the heading Nursing home patients subdivided by either
--Diseases or --Physiology. <br><br>
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Wetlands*Effect of grazing on<br>
<x-tab> </x-tab><x-tab>
</x-tab>The meeting did
not approve establishing a heading for "Wetlands--Effect of grazing
on." As stated in the Summary of Decisions for WL05-12,
"the meeting did not wish to extend the practice of establishing
subdivisions of the type --Effect of [. . .] on beyond those areas where
clear patterns of doing so already exist in LCSH, such as under plants,
animals, materials, parts of the body, and a few topics in the field of
business and economics." No headings currently exist for types
of geographic areas with subdivisions of this type. The heading
Grazing--Environmental aspects should continue to be be assigned in
combination with headings for types of geographic areas like
Wetlands. </blockquote></body>
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