Library of Congress Subject Headings: Principles and Application¶
Chan, L. M. (2005). Library of Congress Subject Headings: Principles and Application: Principles and Application, 4th Edition.
Cited by¶
6 citations across 6 artifacts.
Each citation links to the sentence it supports in the citing article.
Domain-specific¶
- Aspect Qualifier
- LCSH uses a parallel mechanism through subdivisions appended after an em-dash
This sourceThe standard LCSH textbook, which documents subdivisions appended to a main heading after a dash (Education-Aims) and the four types topical, form, chronological and geographic.
Supported in partVerified against the work's full text
“free-floating [subdivisions]: form and topical ....... 44] appendix c: free-floating [subdivisions]: names of”
- LCSH uses a parallel mechanism through subdivisions appended after an em-dash
- Subject Heading String
- The pattern is most fully realized in the Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH), where subdivision rules specify which subdivision types are permitted after which main headings, in what canonical order (typically: topical subdivision → geographic subdivision → chronological subdivision → form subdivision), and which values are drawn from controlled lists.
This sourceChan's account of LCSH sets out subdivision rules and a fixed citation order for combining a main heading with subdivisions, including the direct and indirect forms of geographic subdivision. Chan's LCSH examples show single headings concatenating a topical main heading with geographic and form elements (e.g. 'World War, 1914-1918-Campaigns-France').
Supported in partVerified against the work's full text
“two forms of [geographic] [subdivision]: direct and indirect.”
- The pattern is most fully realized in the Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH), where subdivision rules specify which subdivision types are permitted after which main headings, in what canonical order (typically: topical subdivision → geographic subdivision → chronological subdivision → form subdivision), and which values are drawn from controlled lists.
- Entry Term Alias
- "Automobiles" is itself an authorised LCSH heading — its UF forms are "Autos (Automobiles)", "Cars (Automobiles)", "Gasoline automobiles" and "Motorcars (Automobiles)" — and it sits under the broader heading "Motor vehicles" as a narrower term, not as a UF
This sourceA principles-and-application textbook of Library of Congress Subject Headings whose passages discuss used-for references within LCSH practice.
Supported in partVerified against the source
- "Automobiles" is itself an authorised LCSH heading — its UF forms are "Autos (Automobiles)", "Cars (Automobiles)", "Gasoline automobiles" and "Motorcars (Automobiles)" — and it sits under the broader heading "Motor vehicles" as a narrower term, not as a UF
- Precoordinated Heading
- The heading is a fixed string with internal grammar: in LCSH, "United States — History — Civil War, 1861–1865 — Personal narratives, Confederate" combines a geographic entity, a subject, a date range, and a form subdivision into one canonical string that the cataloger constructs once from an authorized heading and subdivisions, records on the bibliographic record, and the user matches as a whole
This sourceLCSH's construction of heading strings from a main heading plus topical, chronological and form subdivisions, many of them free-floating and applied without an authority record for each combination.
Supported in partVerified against the source
- The heading is a fixed string with internal grammar: in LCSH, "United States — History — Civil War, 1861–1865 — Personal narratives, Confederate" combines a geographic entity, a subject, a date range, and a form subdivision into one canonical string that the cataloger constructs once from an authorized heading and subdivisions, records on the bibliographic record, and the user matches as a whole
- Textual Definition
- Biomedical and life-science ontologies — OBO Foundry Principle FP-006 mandates a textual definition, genus–differentia style, and a definition-source relation for every term (Gene Ontology, Human Phenotype Ontology, ChEBI, Cell Ontology). Standards bodies — ISO 704 terminology work, ISO 25964 thesauri, and IEEE definitions, with the convention that the definition is normative and surrounding prose illustrative. Library cataloging — MeSH and LCSH scope notes and thesaurus definitions bounding the application of controlled subject headings.
This sourceA guide to Library of Congress Subject Headings whose scope notes state the scope and application of a heading.
Supported in partVerified against the work's full text
“[Scope] notes’ are provided under many headings in [LCSH] to help users”
- Biomedical and life-science ontologies — OBO Foundry Principle FP-006 mandates a textual definition, genus–differentia style, and a definition-source relation for every term (Gene Ontology, Human Phenotype Ontology, ChEBI, Cell Ontology). Standards bodies — ISO 704 terminology work, ISO 25964 thesauri, and IEEE definitions, with the convention that the definition is normative and surrounding prose illustrative. Library cataloging — MeSH and LCSH scope notes and thesaurus definitions bounding the application of controlled subject headings.
- Topic Facet
- Traditional Library of Congress Subject Headings are precoordinated: a resource about nineteenth-century Italian cooking receives one indivisible string such as "Cooking — Italy — 19 century," in which subject, place, and period are welded together in a fixed order
This sourceChan's Library of Congress Subject Headings describes LCSH as a precoordinated, enumerative vocabulary in which multiple aspects or facets are combined in long heading strings.
Supported in partVerified against a saved copy of the source
“multiple aspects, or facets. These are often precoordinated in long heading strings”
- Traditional Library of Congress Subject Headings are precoordinated: a resource about nineteenth-century Italian cooking receives one indivisible string such as "Cooking — Italy — 19 century," in which subject, place, and period are welded together in a fixed order
Verification¶
Does it exist? Not checked yet. This entry carries no identifier to resolve. It was extracted from the citation as written in the article, normalized, and deduplicated against the rest of the registry.
Does it back the claim? Read against the text for 6 of 6 citations: 6 supported in part. Each verdict is shown under its citation below, with what in the work backs the sentence.
Support is checked per citation rather than per work — the same source can be cited soundly in one article and wrongly in another. Per-citation recording began recently, so a citation with no recorded check is a gap in the record rather than evidence it went unchecked.
See how references were verified.
Registry ID ref:fe6f84e02fdf · see in the full table