[Yulcat-l] Genre authority records in the OCLC Subject Authority file

[Steven Arakawa]

FYI. I'm hoping policies & procedures for applying form/genre subject 
headings will be discussed at this month's CCC meeting.

The LC guidelines are at:
http://www.loc.gov/catdir/cpso/genre.html

--Steven

Date:         Wed, 12 Sep 2007 13:51:40 -0400
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From: "Dean,Becky" <deanr at OCLC.ORG>
Subject: [OCLC-CAT] OFFICIAL:  Genre authority records available via Connexion
To: OCLC-CAT at OCLC.ORG

With the loading of this week's authority subjects distribution file 
from the Library of Congress, you can now search or browse for Genre 
authority records (x55 tags) via the Connexion client (2.0) or 
browser.  The x55 tagged authority records are also indexed in the 
LCSH index.   An example of a newly added Genre authority record is 
sh2007025004 (ARN 7519072), Fiction films.

Although the Genre index labels are not present in the authority 
searching or browsing dropdown lists in Client 1.7x, the genre 
indexes can be accessed via the command line.  The index label for 
the genre index is 'ge'.  An example of a search from the command 
line is:  ge: films ; and an example of a browse is sca ge: films.

Please note: At this time, SACO participants still have to wait to 
propose new headings.

Currently, headings tagged as 655, second indicator 0 are *not* 
candidates for controlling.  Changes to enable the controlling of 
genre headings will be part of a future Connexion enhancement.

Please contact your OCLC Regional Service Provider or OCLC Customer 
Support for additional information or assistance.

--Becky Dean

OCLC
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Steven Arakawa
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Catalog & Metadata Services, SML, Yale University
P.O. Box 208240 New Haven, CT 06520-8240
(203)432-8286 steven.arakawa at yale.edu
   
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