Library Cataloging
Beginning with Weekly List 1 for 2007, the Library of Congress Subject Headings Weekly Lists and Library of Congress Classification Weekly Lists are now available as free RSS feeds. Users may subscribe to the feeds by clicking on the RSS link in the lower left corner of this page and selecting "Library of Congress Subject Headings Weekly Lists" and/or "Library of Congress Classification Weekly Lists."Subscribed to both.
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- Library Of Congress Changed Subject Heading Subdivisions
Sept. 1 there will be a new edition of the Library of Congress Changed Subject Heading Subdivisions.Each August I review the previous years' changes from Library of Congress's "Weekly List" of new headings and cross-check them with their annual...
- Validation Records
From the LC Cataloging Newsline Vol. 15, no. 3 (October 2007)The Cataloging Policy and Support Office (CPSO) has begun creating and distributing subject authority records called "validation records" that represent valid 6XX headings plus subdivision strings...
- Genre/form Authority Records
Library of Congress Subject Headings Weekly List 35 (August 29, 2007) contains the start of authority records for the TV and movie genres. Most have yet to make it into the LC authority datanbse....
- Authority Records
News from OCLC regarding notification of authority records with death dates added.The Library of Congress recently announced a change in policy about adding death dates to personal name heading and a revision to the LCRI for AACR2 rule 22.17 that allows...
- Dewey Classification
Keeping up with the changes in Dewey Classification is easy because of a couple of services they provide.The Library of Congress Subject Headings/DDC page is a "list of LC subject headings is selected from recent Weekly Lists accompanied by candidate...
Library Cataloging
LC RSS Feeds
Beginning with Weekly List 1 for 2007, the Library of Congress Subject Headings Weekly Lists and Library of Congress Classification Weekly Lists are now available as free RSS feeds. Users may subscribe to the feeds by clicking on the RSS link in the lower left corner of this page and selecting "Library of Congress Subject Headings Weekly Lists" and/or "Library of Congress Classification Weekly Lists."Subscribed to both.
RSS
- Library Of Congress Changed Subject Heading Subdivisions
Sept. 1 there will be a new edition of the Library of Congress Changed Subject Heading Subdivisions.Each August I review the previous years' changes from Library of Congress's "Weekly List" of new headings and cross-check them with their annual...
- Validation Records
From the LC Cataloging Newsline Vol. 15, no. 3 (October 2007)The Cataloging Policy and Support Office (CPSO) has begun creating and distributing subject authority records called "validation records" that represent valid 6XX headings plus subdivision strings...
- Genre/form Authority Records
Library of Congress Subject Headings Weekly List 35 (August 29, 2007) contains the start of authority records for the TV and movie genres. Most have yet to make it into the LC authority datanbse....
- Authority Records
News from OCLC regarding notification of authority records with death dates added.The Library of Congress recently announced a change in policy about adding death dates to personal name heading and a revision to the LCRI for AACR2 rule 22.17 that allows...
- Dewey Classification
Keeping up with the changes in Dewey Classification is easy because of a couple of services they provide.The Library of Congress Subject Headings/DDC page is a "list of LC subject headings is selected from recent Weekly Lists accompanied by candidate...