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A Practical Guide to Library of Congress Subject Headings

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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.
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.
Acknowledgements Preface Chapter 1 - Library of Congress Subject Headings in a Nutshell Chapter 2 - Basic Principles of Subject Analysis Chapter 3 - Searching and Browsing LCSH in Classification Web Chapter 4 - Subdivisions and Free-Floating Subdivisions Chapter 5 - MARC Coding of LCSH Chapter 6 - The Subject Headings Manual (SHM) Chapter 7 - Geographic Subject Headings and Subdivisions Chapter 8 - Personal Name Subject Headings and Biographies Chapter 9 - Fiction Chapter 10 - Conclusion; LCSH Resources Appendix A: Answers to End-of-Chapter Exercises Appendix B: Free-Floating Subdivisions: Form and Topical Appendix C: Free-Floating Subdivisions: Names of Places Appendix D: Free-Floating Subdivisions: Names of Persons Glossary Index
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