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Sep 11, 2023 · H 0165 Subject Heading Changes in Bibliographic Records (PDF, 606 KB) REVISED November 2021 H 0170 CONSER & BIBCO Standard Records (PDF, 131 KB) H 0175 Editions (PDF, 21 KB)
The Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH) comprise a thesaurus (in the information science sense, a controlled vocabulary) of subject headings, maintained by the United States Library of Congress, for use in bibliographic records.
Feb 9, 2024 · You can: discover resources with topics, organizations, persons, or languages in common. learn authoritative spellings of names, places, and subjects. find more specific sub-headings within a broader topic - and use them when you browse the online catalog.
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH)—a controlled vocabulary. Defined, related, chosen terms added to bibliographic records as subject headings Maintained by the Library of Congress Online in OCLC’s Connexion or in LC’s Cataloger’s Desktop. Definitions. Subject headings/terms = Authorized term.
Dec 13, 2022 · The "Library of Congress Subject Headings" is a series of five volumes usually held by large public or academic libraries. These volumes contain a listing of subject terms used by the Library of Congress to catalog books by subject; they also show how the terms are related to one another.
Nov 4, 2023 · Current headings can be found in the multivolume Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH) (Washington: Library of Congress, annual; Z695.Z8 L524a), known familiarly as the “Red Books.” The LCSH also provides call number ranges that can be searched.
Jun 27, 2022 · Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH) were developed and are maintained by the U.S. Library of Congress, initially for the collections of the Library.
