A Practical Guide to Library of Congress Subject Headings - Hardcover

Karen Snow

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1538142996 ISBN 13: 9781538142998

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2021

Synopsis

Here’s a resource that uses language non-catalogers can understand and provides hands-on, user-friendly training in LCSH. The book offers a brief history of LCSH, discusses basic principles of subject analysis, explains the key principles of LCSH, and details how to choose and apply LCSH subject headings and subheadings.

About this title

About the Author

Karen Snow is an associate professor and PhD program director in the School of Information Studies at Dominican University, River Forest, Illinois. She teaches cataloging, classification, and metadata courses and has written many journal articles on cataloging topics and cataloging education. She is the author of A Practical Guide to Library of Congress Classification published in 2017.

Snow holds a Master’s degree in library science and a PhD in information science from the University of North Texas (UNT), where she cataloged for UNT’s main library, the Rare Book Room, and the University Archives.

Snow has taught many LCSH workshops to continuing education groups and teaches LCSH in her courses at Dominican.

Edition details

• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Publication date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1538142996
• ISBN 13: 9781538142998
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 160