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- Treatment Of Globes In Lcsh And Lcgft
LC has issued Library of Congress to revise the treatment of Globes in LCSH and LCGFT. A couple of major changes "To promote collocation of all of the globes, maps, and atlases of a place, the subdivision ?Globes will be cancelled in favor of using the...
- Sport-specific Moving Image Genre/form Terms
News from LC. The Policy and Standards Division of the Library of Congress plans to cancel sport-specific moving image genre/form terms from Library of Congress Genre/Form Terms for Library and Archival Materials (LCGFT) on June 18, 2012. In all, 24 terms...
- No More Star Wars Films?
Image via WikipediaThe heading Star War films, and all other headings dealing with a series or character might be removed from the lcgft. The recent separation of the genre/form thesaurus from LCSH provides an opportunity to reexamine the genre/form terms...
- Genre/form Terms Policy At Lc
Image via WikipediaLC has announced a new policy for genre and form terms.In 2007 the Library of Congress' Policy and Standards Division (PSD, then called the Cataloging Policy and Support Office, or CPSO) began to develop genre/form terms in the...
- Genre/form Headings For Radio Programs
Adapted from the e-mail distributed to many lists. As the next step in the development of genre/form headings at the Library of Congress, the Cataloging Policy and Support Office (CPSO) would like to announce the beginning of a project to add genre/form...
Library Cataloging
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 and Archival Materials (LCGFT), should be formally separated from Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH). In order to accomplish this, on May 24, 2011 the existing genre/form authority records will be deleted and reissued with new coding.
The current coding for the genre/form authority records indicates that the terms are from LCSH, not LCGFT. The LCCNs are prefixed by ?sh? and 008/11 is set to ?a,? Library of Congress Subject Headings. Therefore, the LCCNs and MARC coding both need to be revised. This will require the deleting and reissuing of the genre/form authority records.
The approximately 800 existing authority records will be deleted and immediately reissued. About 1600 records (deletes plus reissues) will be sent to subscribers as part of the May 24, 2011, Volume 26, Issue 21, distribution of subject authorities via the MARC Distribution Service (MDS).
Authority records for LCGFT terms will be coded as follows.
LCCN prefix: gf
008/11: z (?Other?)
040$f: lcgft
Example:
008/11 z
010 $a gf2011987654 $z sh2009025020
040 $a DLC $b eng $c DLC $f lcgft
155 $a Topographic maps
455 $a Hypsographic maps
455 $a Hypsometric maps
455 $a Relief maps
455 $a Topographical maps
555 $w a $a Maps
[Note that the deprecated LCCN is being retained in field 010$z, to facilitate automatic updates.]
As of May 24, 2011, new coding should be used when assigning LCGFT terms in bibliographic records. That coding is as follows.
655 #7 $a [Term]. $2 lcgft
Example:
Title: Survivor: Thailand.
655 #7 $a Survival television programs. $2 lcgft
655 #7 $a Nonfiction television programs. $2 lcgft
The genre/form FAQ http://www.loc.gov/catdir/cpso/genre_form_faq.pdf and the Subject Headings Manual (SHM) will both be updated to reflect this change in policy.
For further information and the rationale for these revisions, please see the January 3, 2011 announcement, ?Library of Congress to Reissue Genre/Form Authority Records.? http://www.loc.gov/catdir/cpso/gf_lccn.html
- Treatment Of Globes In Lcsh And Lcgft
LC has issued Library of Congress to revise the treatment of Globes in LCSH and LCGFT. A couple of major changes "To promote collocation of all of the globes, maps, and atlases of a place, the subdivision ?Globes will be cancelled in favor of using the...
- Sport-specific Moving Image Genre/form Terms
News from LC. The Policy and Standards Division of the Library of Congress plans to cancel sport-specific moving image genre/form terms from Library of Congress Genre/Form Terms for Library and Archival Materials (LCGFT) on June 18, 2012. In all, 24 terms...
- No More Star Wars Films?
Image via WikipediaThe heading Star War films, and all other headings dealing with a series or character might be removed from the lcgft. The recent separation of the genre/form thesaurus from LCSH provides an opportunity to reexamine the genre/form terms...
- Genre/form Terms Policy At Lc
Image via WikipediaLC has announced a new policy for genre and form terms.In 2007 the Library of Congress' Policy and Standards Division (PSD, then called the Cataloging Policy and Support Office, or CPSO) began to develop genre/form terms in the...
- Genre/form Headings For Radio Programs
Adapted from the e-mail distributed to many lists. As the next step in the development of genre/form headings at the Library of Congress, the Cataloging Policy and Support Office (CPSO) would like to announce the beginning of a project to add genre/form...