Subject Headings: A Practical Guide
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The LCSH Century traces the 100-year history of the Library of Congress Subject Headings, from its beginning with the implementation of a dictionary catalog in 1898 to the present day.
The first comprehensive theoretical treatise on Library of Congress subject headings, this important book provides an analysis of the Library of Congress subject heading system and its application.
Library of Congress Subject Headings
Principles, form, and structure; Application; Library of Congress.
Principles Underlying Subject Heading Languages (SHLs)
The book offers a brief history of LCSH, discusses basic principles of subject analysis, explains the key principles of LCSH, and details how to choose and apply LCSH subject headings and subheadings.
I recommend the following: Melissa Adler, Cruising the Library: Perversities in the Organization of Knowledge (New York: Fordham University Press, 2017); Sanford Berman, Prejudices and Antipathies: A Tract on the LC Subject Heads ...
Answers to the exercises are provided at the end of the book. By the end of the book readers will be able to build an LCC call number on their own.