In-Class Exercise 1 (cont.)
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society in East Asia
consumers behaviors
cultural anthropology research
global influence of culture
societal/social change
McDonald's
cultural differences
ethnography
American culture
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Exercise: The Professor and
the Madman
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Consider all types of subject concepts:
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Topics
Names of:
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Persons
Corporate bodies
Geographic areas
Time periods
Titles of works
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The Process of Subject
Analysis
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Learned
Requires supervision and ongoing
training
Involves understanding, reasoning,
creativity, perception and judgment
Practice and persistence
Time-consuming and expensive
Not production line work
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Šauperl’s Model
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Examination of the document with
identification of tentative headings
Search for subject headings with identification
of candidate subject headings
Review and selection of candidate subject
headings
Assignment of subject headings and class
numbers
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Searching for subject headings:
Checking the thesaurus
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Familiarity with thesaurus (its structure
and navigation)
Familiarity with topic (understanding its
terminology and the hierarchy of terms)
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Example 1
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Title: Revolution in clay : the Marer
Collection of Contemporary Ceramics
Pottery is a narrower term for Ceramics
Art pottery is a narrower term for Pottery
Familiarity with these terms and their usage
in the thesaurus is critical to matching the
topic with the subject heading
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Example 2
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Title: Copyright licensing regimes
covering retransmission of
broadcast signals
Copyright licensing is a narrower term
of Copyright
Copyright – Broadcasting rights is also
an established subject heading in LCSH
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Searching for subject headings:
Checking the catalog
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Search under:
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Candidate subject headings to see if similar titles
are found or if there are other related subject
headings often assigned at same time
Author to see if similar works have received the
same candidate subject headings
Associated call numbers to see if similar works
receive same subject headings
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Searching for subject headings:
Checking the catalog (cont.)
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Useful if unfamiliar with topic
Can also be used to search for
classification of similar works
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Searching for subject headings:
Checking the catalog (cont.)
Example:
Works with the subject heading “Dairy
cattle” may also have:
 Dairying,
 Milk production, or
 Cattle – Housing
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Searching for subject headings:
Checking the catalog
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Drawbacks of this technique:
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Obsolete subject headings and
classification numbers
Incorrectly applied subject headings or
correctly applied when narrower terms not
available
Work in hand may not truly match what is
found
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Unfamiliar Subjects
Consult:
 Reference works
 Internet
 Experts
 Colleagues
 Subject Cataloging Manual: Subject
Headings
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Nonlinear Process
Work
Reference works
Internet
LCSH
Catalog
SCM:SH
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Learning to Read the MARC21
Record
Each field has a tag, indicators, and
subfields marked with a delimiter
symbol
Examples:
050 b4 QC23.4 $b .A54 2004
650 b0 Dairy cattle $v Congresses.
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Learning to Read the MARC21
Record (cont.)
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05X-090 fields reserved for classification
numbers
050 specifically for Library of Congress
Classification
2nd indicator 0 specifies LCCS number
assigned by LC for its holdings
2nd indicator 4 specifies LCCS-like
number assigned by another library
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Learning to Read the MARC21
Record (cont.)
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6XX fields record subject access points:
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Topical headings
Name headings (personal and corporate)
Geographic headings
Titles of works as subjects
2nd indicator of 0 = LCSH or LCSHcompatible heading
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MARC21 Concise Format for
Bibliographic Data
Details on the meanings of tags,
indicators, and subfields can be found
in:
http://lcweb.loc.gov/marc/bibliographic/e
cbdhome.html.
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LIBRARY OF CONGRESS
CLASSIFICATION OUTLINE
http://www.loc.gov/catdir/cpso/lcco/lcco.
html
(URL also appears in the syllabus)
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Assignment Due March 23!
Print out 5 MARC records of your choice from
LC catalog at http://catalog.loc.gov/
For all 05X-09X and 6XX fields, write the
meaning of the content designators
Using LC Classification Outline, write the closest
verbal equivalent for the class number
Using LCSH, search the heading and highlight if
it is found exactly
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Example
050 0 Z666.5 $b .C37 2003
Z666.5 = Library science. Information science.
 650 0 Metadata.
650=Subject added entry, topical term
Blank 1st indicator=???
0 2nd indicator=???
$a = ???
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