[Yulcat-l] Changed geographic subject headings

[Manon Theroux]

Dear cataloging staff,

I just wanted to alert you to some recent subject heading changes for 
geographic areas made by LC:

-- "Asia, Southeastern" has been changed to "Southeast Asia"

-- "Great Lakes" has been changed to "Great Lakes (North America)"

-- 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).

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.

Manon Théroux
Authority Control Librarian
Catalog Department, SML, 2-8376

>Date:         Thu, 6 Oct 2005 09:51:57 -0400
>Sender: Subject Authority Cooperative Program <SACOLIST at loc.gov>
>From: CPSO <cpso at loc.gov>
>Subject: Summary of Decisions, Editorial Meeting 05/40
>
>CATALOGING POLICY AND SUPPORT OFFICE
>SUMMARY OF DECISIONS, EDITORIAL MEETING NUMBER 40
>
>October 5, 2005
>
>                 Present from CPSO:      L. El-Hoshy, B. Bellinger, R. 
> Goudreau, D. Thompson
>
>CLASSIFICATION
>
>         PG9049.26.A32-PG9050.36.V57
>                 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.
>
>
>SUBJECT HEADINGS
>
>         Subdivisions to be added to lists of free-floating subdivisions:
>
>                 H 1140, Places
>                         $x  Kings and rulers $x Deposition
>
>         Other decisions:
>
>         Bonaire Marine Park (Bonaire) CANCEL replaced by Bonaire Marine 
> Park (Netherlands Antilles); Caracas Bay (Curaçao) CANCEL replaced by 
> Caracas Bay (Netherlands Antilles)
>                 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.  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 Curaçao, which are part of the 
> Netherlands Antilles, should now be assigned indirectly through the 
> heading for the country, 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.
>
>         Spy comic books, strips, etc.; War comic books, strips, etc.
>                 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.
>
>         Weight loss in nursing home patients
>                 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.
>
>         Wetlands*Effect of grazing on
>                 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.
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