Memorandum
Subject: Children's Subjects in OSCAR and the AF
Date: March 21, 2005
From: Noelle Van Pulis
To: Catalogers
This is informational, for those who may be unfamiliar with LC Children's subject heading in bibliographic records and the authority file, and their treatment in OSCAR.
Children's Subjects in OSCAR and the AF
Bibliographic records can contain headings for children's material, and these headings might be the same as or different from the way the topic is described in LCSH.
In some cases, the LC Children's heading could be the opposite of the same heading as specified in LCSH,a or could have different cross-references.
Both LCSH and Children's headings are indexed, however, in the same online subject authority file in OCLC. Both are listed in the printed LCSH, with the Children's headings appearing in v.1 of LCSH (27th ed.) in a section labeled "Annotated Card Program, AC Subject Headings."
In OCLC documentation, in the section for MARC tags 6xx:,
http://www.oclc.org/bibformats/en/6xx/650.shtm
* headings from LCSH have indicator value of 0.
* headings for Children's have indicator value of 1.
When searching the authority file, to distinguish a Children's topic from LCSH or a comparable name authority record, note the prefix designation in the authority record: sj for Children's, sh for LCSH and n, no, nb, or nr for names.
- OSUL catalogers do not assign Children's headings but use LCSH instead.
- Our authorities processing vendor reviews and corrects both, but we do NOT get authority records (and so no cross-references) for Children's headings.
- Children's headings, if present, are indexed only as keywords, not in the LC Subject index.
EXAMPLE 1 (Authority records)
010 sj 96005299
040 DLC $b eng $c DLC
150 Dinosaurs [established form]
550 Fossils ['see also' cross-reference]
Note: This is also coded to NOT be subdivided geographically.
010 sh 85038094
040 DLC $b eng $c DLC $d DLC
053 0 QE861.2 $b QE861.9
150 Dinosaurs [established form]
450 Dinosauria $w nne [earlier form, 'see' cross-reference]
550 Reptiles, Fossil $w g [broader topic, 'see also' cross-reference]
681 $i Example under $a Fossils [note for related topic]
Note: This heading is coded TO ALLOW it be subdivided geographically.
EXAMPLE 2 (Authority records)
sj 96006331
100 0 Virgil. $t Aeneid [established form -- Children's]
400 0 Virgil. $t Aeneis [cross-reference from this form]
This same topic is represented in the name authority file by a name-title combination:
010 n 81013510
040 DLC $b eng $c DLC $d DLC
100 0 Virgil. $t Aeneis [established form -- opposite of Children's]
400 0 Virgil. $t Aeneid [cross-reference from this form]
400 0 Virgil. $t Eneida
400 0 Virgil. $t Ene´ide
670 Block, E. The effects of divine manifestation ... 1981, c1977 (subj.) $b t.p. (Vergil's Aeneid)
670 Harper's Dict. of class. lit. $b (Aeneid)
670 Oxford class dict. $b (Aeneid)
670 Encyc. Brit. $b (Aeneid)
670 Goff. Third census. $b (Aeneis)
670 Thomas, J. Structures de l'imaginaire dans l'Ene´ide, 1981.
670 His Eneida, libro II, 1962.
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