Every subject heading is loved by someone
150 Fountain pens in art [Not Subd Geog]
150 Advertising-Breakfast cereals [May Subd Geog]
450 UF Breakfast cereals-Advertising
From Sandy Berman's list
150 Scrapbooking [May Subd Geog]
450 UF Scrap booking
450 UF Scrapping (Scrapbooking)
550 BT Hobbies
Funny ha ha
150 Camels in literature [Not Subd Geog]
(I wonder if the book that prompted this one had a first camel narrative.)
(And why not let it Subd Geog?)
Funny strange
150 Civil defense [May Subd Geog]
* 550 BT Public safety
* 550 RT Emergency management CANCEL
150 Emergency management [May Subd Geog]
* 550 BT Public safety
* 550 RT Civil defense CANCEL
(So emergency management is no longer related to civil defense and vice versa? I don't necessarily know what to make of that, but I do think it's interesting.)
Getting it right
150 Corporate culture-American influences
551 BT United States-Civilization
Getting it wrong
(A) 150 Hispanic American celebrities
450 UF Celebrities, Hispanic American
550 BT Celebrities—United States
(I believe the folks at REFORMA are trying to institute Latino as a subject heading. Hispanic American seems to me to indicate a person who came here directly from Spain. No stop in Central or South America, the Caribbean, or Mexico.)
I'd like to add a few Related Terms to this one:
150 Police [May Subd Geog]
* 550 BT Public safety
(e.g. RT Public menace)
Wouldn't it be cool if these were all from one book?
150 Camels in literature [Not Subd Geog]
(C) 150 Clichés in literature [Not Subd Geog]
(C) 150 Ethnoscience in literature [Not Subd Geog]
(A) 150 Executive power in literature [Not Subd Geog]
150 Metallurgy in rabbinical literature [Not Subd Geog]
150 Metals in rabbinical literature [Not Subd Geog]
(A) 150 Presidents in literature [Not Subd Geog]
(I know they're not, but may some day? Maybe this will inspire someone next NaNoWriMo?
Comments
Laura (not verified)
Thu, 05/01/2008 - 5:23pm
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Well, Hamlet would cover
Well, Hamlet would cover camels (if a cloud shaped like a camel counts), clichés (as the joke goes, it's just a bunch of quotations, after all), and executive power. Can't work out how to get the rest of 'em in, though.
Amandamouse (not verified)
Fri, 05/02/2008 - 9:45am
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Okay, I'll cave. I want a
Okay, I'll cave. I want a glossary:
Does "Subd Geog" mean they may or may not subdivide by geographical regions? Okay. So then what do (C), (A), UF and BT mean?
-amanda
jenna
Fri, 05/02/2008 - 10:28am
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Thanks for caring,
Thanks for caring, Amandamouse!
You're right on "subd geog." It amuses me to use the silly abbreviation. You probably get what that taxonomy is all about, but just in case here's an example from the Columbia catalog using a zine from the Barnard Zine Collection.
"(A) indicates proposals that were approved before the editorial meeting. (C) indicates proposals submitted by cooperating libraries." I had to ask our cataloger about those, too.
UF is "used for," and BT is "broader term." They're both cross-references, a "see" and a "see also," if I've got that right. If I'm off, it's only slight, and I'm sure KR or that guy from LC who's been commenting will correct me. I imagine they and all real catalogers will have stuff to say about my cataloging records, too.