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Unit 10: Subject Heading List
(b) Geographic features without jurisdictional status: Such places – e.g., individual mountains Notes
or mountain ranges, rivers, bays; regions larger than countries, including continents
and groups of countries; regions within countries that do not correspond to political
divisions – could only relate to a work as subjects.
Example: Alps
Mississippi River
4. Names: The appropriate heading for individual persons, families, corporate bodies, literary
works, motion pictures, etc., is the unique name of the entity in question. There are three
major types, personal names, corporate names and uniform titles. Like geographic headings,
name headings, are numerous beyond the scope of Sears List and must be established by
the cataloguer as needed.
5. Uniform title (MARC tag 630): The form of a uniform title heading used as a subject should
be the same as that in the name authority file, so the form of the access point is the same
whether its function in the record is to represent the uniform title for the content of a
work, for the content of part of a work, for a series, or for the subject a work discussed in
the work in hand. Therefore, the rules for construction are covered in AACR2 revised and
the associated LCRI.
Self Assessment
Fill in the blanks:
10. …………………subject heading is simply the words or phrase for common things to
represent the content of various works.
11. …………………headings mean the intellectual form of the materials.
12. The form of a …………………….title heading used as a subject should be the same as that
in the name authority file.
10.5 Methods of Deriving Subject Headings
In any system of classification that determines the arrangement of items in the shelves, a work
can obviously have only one class number and stand in only one place, but in a catalogue the
same work can be entered, if necessary, under as many different points of entry as there are
distinct subjects in the work (usually, however, not more than three).
Methods are used to gather in one numerical place on the shelf works that give similar treatment
to a subject. Subject headings gather in one alphabetical place in a catalogue all treatments of a
subject regardless of shelf location. Another difference between classification and subject
cataloguing is that classification is frequently less precise than the subject entries for the catalogue.
There are areas either the complexity of the material or the vagaries of the English Language
create persistent problems.
10.5.1 Biography
Biography is a form of writing given the topical subject heading. Biography as a literary form.
It can be a form heading Biography or the form subdivision Biography. It has two groups the
collective and the individual biographies.
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