Subject Headings for School and Public Libraries

Nearly double the size of its predecessor, Headings for Children's Materials (Libraries Unlimited, 1993), this book offers librarians in the process of automating and those changing from Sears to Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH) a comprehensive subject authority and companion to the LC list of headings. Fountain's affordable compilation of the most-used LC subject headings has been supplemented with hundreds of names from the LC authority file, and it incorporates all current modifications of LCSH (18th edition) for the classification of children's material. Librarians will find this first-check source a valuable tool for both online and card environments. Extensive cross-referencing to and from broader, narrower, and related terms makes it easy to find and use the best headings for each work being cataloged. Clear explanations of the application of the Library of Congress's AC (Annotated Card) headings and references from their counterparts allow the nonexpert subject cataloger to use