Library Cataloging
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 form subdivision ?Maps. The fact that a work is a spherical representation will be brought out with the genre/form term Globes." And "Since there are at least two, and possibly three, commonly accepted meanings, the heading for Earth as a planet should be qualified. The heading will be revised to Earth (Planet)."
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Library Cataloging
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 form subdivision ?Maps. The fact that a work is a spherical representation will be brought out with the genre/form term Globes." And "Since there are at least two, and possibly three, commonly accepted meanings, the heading for Earth as a planet should be qualified. The heading will be revised to Earth (Planet)."
On May 24, 2012, the Policy and Standards Division (PSD) of the Library of Congress issued a discussion paper entitled ?Proposed Treatment of Globes in the LCGFT Environment? (http://www.loc.gov/catdir/cpso/genre_form_globes.pdf). The paper explained that currently in Library of Congress Genre/Form Terms for Library and Archival Materials (LCGFT), the term Globes in refers to globes of the Earth, to exclusion of globes of other heavenly bodies (e.g., other planets, comets, asteroids). The paper went on to suggest revisions to both LCGFT and Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH) to allow for more accurate and consistent description of all globes.
- 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...
- Marbi Paper Available For Review
Image via WikipediaProposal 2012-01: New Data Elements in the MARC 21 Bibliographic and Authority Formats for Medium of Performance. As noted in Discussion Paper 2011-DP05, medium of performance is a critical piece of information for music retrieval....
- No More Star Wars Films
Image via WikipediaThe Library of Congress to Cancel LCGFT Character- and Franchise-Based Terms for Moving Images. On August 1, 2011 the Policy and Standards Division (PSD) of the Library of Congress issued a discussion paper entitled, ?Cancellation of...
- 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...
- Library Of Congress Genre/form Terms For Library And Archival Materials
Seems we should be planning for updated genre/form authority records. No date just yet.As a first step toward formally separating the genre/form terms from LC subject headings list, PSD titled the new thesaurus the Library of Congress Genre/Form Terms...