LCSH in this service includes all Library of Congress Subject Headings, free-floating subdivisions (topical and form), Genre/Form headings, Children's (AC) headings, and validation strings* for which authority records have been created.
- LCSH Collection - Topic Subdivisions
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- LCSH Collection - GenreForm Subdivisions
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- LCSH Collection - Geographic Subdivisions
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- LCSH Collection - Temporal Subdivisions
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- LCSH Collection - Topic Subdivisions
Jun 10, 2022 · This page provides print-ready PDF files for the 44th Edition of the Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH). Data for the 44th edition was selected in May 2022. For users desiring enhanced functionality, LCSH will continue as part of the web-based subscription product, Classification Web.
Mar 3, 2022 · The Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH) is perhaps the most widely adopted subject indexing language in the world, has been translated into many languages, and is used around the world by libraries large and small.
- Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Library of Congress Genre/Form Terms For Library and Archival Materials
- Library of Congress Medium of Performance Thesaurus For Music
- Ethnographic Thesaurus
- Thesaurus For Graphic Materials (TGM): Subject and Genre Terms
- Guidelines on Subject Access to Individual Works of Fiction, Drama, etc.
- Moving Image Genre-Form Guide
- Radio Form/Genre Terms Guide
- CRS Legislative Subject Terms
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Library of Congress Library of Congress Genre/Form Terms for Library and Archival Materials (LCGFT) provides over 1,950 terms that describe what something is instead of what it is about. As of March 2017 it includes terms in the disciplines of moving images (films and television programs), sound recordings, cartography, law, literature, music, reli...
Library of Congress First released in 2014, the Library of Congress Medium of Performance Thesaurus for Music (LCMPT) is a tool for describing the instruments, voices, etc., used in the performance of musical works. LCMPT is available through Classification Web, which is updated daily; subscriptions may be purchased through the Cataloging Distribut...
American Folklife Center (Library of Congress) and the American Folklore Society The AFS (American Folklore Society) Ethnographic Thesaurus (AFSET) is an online vocabulary for providing access to and indexing materials in folklore, ethnomusicology, ethnology, and related fields. The thesaurus includes more than 16,000 terms and was developed by the...
Prints and Photographs Division (Library of Congress) The Thesaurus for Graphic Materials (TGM) is a tool for indexing visual materials by subject and genre/format. The thesaurus includes more than 7,000 subject terms to index topics shown or reflected in pictures, and 650 genre/format terms to index types of photographs, prints, design drawings, e...
Subject Analysis Committee (American Library Association) Guidelines on Subject Access to Individual Works of Fiction, Drama, Etc.is a list of genre and form headings applicable to works of literature and is designed to assist with the provision of readers’ advisory services. The Library of Congress is assigning GSAFD headings to cataloging records...
Compiled by Brian Taves, Judi Hoffman, Karen Lund Motion Picture, Broadcasting & Recorded Sound Division (Library of Congress) The Moving Image Genre-Form Guide is a thesaurus of genre/form terms applicable to the moving image holdings of archives and libraries. MIGFG terms ceased to be used in new cataloging records produced by the Library of Cong...
Motion Picture, Broadcasting & Recorded Sound Division (Library of Congress) The Radio Form/Genre Terms Guide is a thesaurus of genre/form terms applicable to library and archival holdings of radio programs. RADFG terms ceased to be used in new cataloging records produced by the Library of Congress in 2009 when LCGFT was implemented, but the terms ...
Congressional Research Service The CRS Legislative Subject Terms is a set of about 1,000 terms, including those that describe geographic entities and government organizations, for use with CONGRESS.GOV beginning with the 111th Congress. Terms assigned to legislation from the 110th and earlier Congresses came from a list that was based upon a thesau...
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.
Apr 5, 2022 · Lists of new and changed subject headings are posted at https://classweb.org/approved-subjects/ as they are approved. More About the Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH) Approved Lists. Subject Headings Editorial Meeting: Summary of Decisions; Submit a Proposal [PDF, 85 KB]
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