New and Revised SCIS Subject Headings March 2008
This is a detailed list of new and revised SCIS Subject Headings approved by the SCIS Information
Services Standards Committee at the teleconference held on 5 March 2008.
This list corresponds to the summary list published in Connections issue 66, Term 3 2008.
Ballet stories
Change USE reference to read:
USE Ballets – Plots, storylines, etc.
Film plots
Change USE reference to read:
USE Films – Plots, storylines, etc.
Ballets
Change scope note to read:
SN
Use for ballets as productions. For works on ballet as
an art form and on the technique of ballet, use Ballet.
Del
NT
Ballets – Plots, themes, etc.
Films – Plots, themes, etc.
Replace this entry with:
Films – Plots, storylines, etc.
SEN Example under Plots, storylines, etc.
UF
Film plots
RT
Film adaptations
Ballets – Plots, themes, etc.
Replace this entry with:
Ballets – Plots, storylines, etc.
SEN Example under Plots, storylines, etc.
UF
Ballet stories
Characters and characteristics in literature
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NT
Plot (Drama, fiction, etc.)
Food industry
Change first sentence of scope note to read:
SN
Use for general works on food technology and for
works on the processing of food in general and on the
marketing of processed food products.
Add UF
Food processing
Add UF
Food processing industry
Add UF
Food technology
Church history – 20th century
Church history – 21st century
Documentary films
Add the following scope note:
SN
Use for works of, or about, documentary films.
Drama
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NT
Food processing
USE Food industry
Food processing industry
USE Food industry
Food technology
USE Food industry
Plot (Drama, fiction, etc.)
Drama – Plots
Replace this entry with:
Drama – Plots, storylines, etc.
SEN Example under Plots, storylines, etc.
UF
Dramatic plots
Dramatic plots
USE Drama – Plots, storylines, etc.
Europe – History – 1945Replace this entry with:
Europe – History – 1945-2000
Japan – History – 1945Replace this entry with:
Japan – History – 1945-2000
Japan – History – 2000Literature
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NT
Add NT
Plot (Drama, fiction, etc.)
Plots, storylines, etc.
Literature – Plots, themes, etc.
Replace this entry with:
Literature – Plots, storylines, etc.
USE Plots, storylines, etc.
Europe – History – 2000Fiction
Del
NT
Music – Plots, storylines, etc.
SEN Example under Plots, storylines, etc.
Plot (Drama, fiction, etc.)
Fiction – Plots
Delete this entry
Film adaptations
Del
BT
Films – Plots, themes, etc.
Del
BT
Plot (Drama, fiction, etc.)
Add RT
Films – Plots, storylines, etc.
Opera stories
USE Operas – Plots, storylines, etc.
Operas – Plots, themes, etc.
Replace this entry with:
Operas – Plots, storylines, etc.
SEN Example under Plots, storylines, etc.
UF
Opera stories
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New and Revised SCIS Subject Headings March 2008
Operas – Stories
Delete this entry
Plot (Drama, fiction, etc.)
Replace this entry with the following USE reference …
USE Plots, storylines, etc.
…and heading:
Plots, storylines, etc.
SN
Use for works on the construction and analysis of
plots from the point of view of literary technique.
SEN See also film, literary or musical subjects with the
subdivision Plots, storylines, etc., e.g. Ballets – Plots,
storylines, etc.; Drama – Plots, storylines, etc.; Films
– Plots, storylines, etc.; Music – Plots, storylines, etc.;
Operas – Plots, storylines, etc.; Shakespeare, William
– Plots, storylines, etc.
UF
Literature – Plots, storylines, etc.
Plot (Drama, fiction, etc.)
Plots, themes, etc.
Scenarios
Stories, plots, etc.
Storylines
BT
Literature
Plots, themes, etc.
Delete the existing specific example note.
Add USE Plots, storylines, etc.
Power politics
Del
USE World politics – 1945-1965
Del
USE World politics – 1965Scenarios
Change the first USE reference to read:
USE Plots, storylines, etc.
Shakespeare, William – Plots, themes, etc.
Replace this entry with:
Shakespeare, William – Plots, storylines, etc.
SEN Example under Plots, storylines, etc.
Stories, plots, etc.
Delete the existing specific example note.
Add USE Plots, storylines, etc.
Storylines
USE Plots, storylines, etc.
Television documentaries
Add the following scope note:
SN
Use for works of, or about, television documentaries.
World politics – 1945-1965
Del
UF
Power politics
World politics – 1965Replace this entry with:
World politics – 1965-1989
Del
UF
Power politics
World politics – 1989Writing (Authorship)
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NT
Plot (Drama, fiction, etc.)
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