Genre/Form Headings Webinar
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Genre/Form Headings Webinar


OCLC has made available the recording of the webinar held on May 12, 2011 entitled: Genre/Form Headings. This one hour webinar covers the definition of genre/form headings, different sources of genre/form terms, searching in Connexion (authority and bibliographic), and tagging/coding.




- Library Of Congress Genre/form Terms For Library And Archival Materials
Image by ekpatterson via FlickrNews from LC. Since 2007 the Library of Congress? Policy and Standards Division (PSD) has been developing genre/form terms, and in June 2010 determined that the new thesaurus, Library of Congress Genre/Form Terms for Library...

- Genre/form Headings For Cartographic Resources
Image via WikipediaLC continues to create cartographic genre/form terms. The Policy and Standards Division (PSD) of the Library of Congress continues to develop genre/form headings on a discipline-by-discipline basis, and will implement genre/form headings...

- Hierarchies For Moving Image Genre/form Headings
LC has requested comments about hierarchies for moving image genre/form headings.In 2007 the Policy and Standards Division (PSD) of the Library of Congress began an experiment to develop genre/form headings in the area of moving images (films, television...

- Decision Regarding The Final Disposition Of Lcsh Headings For Video Recordings
LC has published Decision regarding the final disposition of LCSH headings for video recordings.In summary, the decisions are:Topical headings (MARC tag 150) denoting a genre or form of video recording will be cancelled in favor of the correlated film...

- Moving Image Genre/form Project Report
In early 2007 the Cataloging Policy and Support Office (CPSO) of the Library of Congress initiated a project to create authority records for genre/form headings (MARC tag 155), which indicate what a work is, as opposed to what it is about.... This past...



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