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<font size=3>I just updated the list of subject headings that have been
successfully proposed by Yale catalogers to LC through the SACO program:
<a href="http://www.library.yale.edu/cataloging/authorities/saco.htm" eudora="autourl">
http://www.library.yale.edu/cataloging/authorities/saco.htm<br><br>
</a>The following headings were accepted for inclusion in LCSH during the
past year or so:
<ul>
<li>Bagnell Dam (Mo.)
<li>Copper Queen Mine (Ariz.)
<li>El Mozote Massacre, El Mozote, El Salvador, 1981
<li>El Salvador--History--Revolution, 1932
<li>Progo River (Indonesia) </font>
<li>Tirtayasa Site (Indonesia)<font size=3>
<li>Waterphone music
<li>Waterphone (Musical instrument)
</ul>This heading was updated with additional cross-references:
<ul>
<li>Seven Reductions, War of the, 1754-1756
</ul>The proposals were made by the following people: Steven Arakawa,
Todd Fell, Mickey Koth, Dorothy Rachmat, Karen Spicher, Keiko Suzuki, and
me.<br><br>
I'd also like to note that students working for the Catalog Dept. helped
develop the proposals for some of these headings. Two graduate students
from the Dept. of Spanish and Portuguese have been doing some heading
maintenance work for us this year - as a side project, taking advantage
of their language expertise, I suggested that they help me clean up the
"History" subdivisions under some of the Latin American
countries. In addition to making the existing chronological subdivisions
consistent, they have been reviewing headings that lack chronological
subdivisions to see if it would be appropriate to add any and they have
been keeping an eye out for books about historical events that lack
specific subject headings and thus might make good SACO proposals. Once a
potential heading has been identified, they have helped do the required
research and identify other books that might need the subject heading
applied retrospectively. It's been a fun project and there are a few more
SACO proposals in the pipeline right now...<br><br>
I hope I haven't forgotten anyone - let me know if you've had a proposal
accepted recently and I'll add it to the list!<br><br>
For more information about SACO:
<a href="http://www.library.yale.edu/cataloging/authorities/subjects.html" eudora="autourl">
http://www.library.yale.edu/cataloging/authorities/subjects.html<br><br>
</a>Thanks,<br><br>
-Manon<br><br>
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Manon Théroux<br>
Authority Control Librarian <br>
Catalog Department, SML, 2-8376 </font></body>
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