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AGL: National Agricultural LibraryBFM: bibliographic file maintenanceBIBCO: Monographic component of the Program for Cooperative CatalogingCGP: Catalog of U.S. Government PublicationsClass Web or Minaret: The official repository of the Library of Congress Subject Headings.CONSER: Serials component of the Program for Cooperative CatalogingDC: Dublin Core Metadata Element…
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AAccess point: A name, term, code, etc., representing a specific entity. (RDA Glossary)Acquisition record: A bibliographic record at encoding level 5, MARC partial (preliminary) level, created to represent a tangible publication that has been ordered or received for either the Cataloging and Indexing (C&I) Program or Federal Depository Library Program (FDLP). An…
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In 2004, in an effort to make Federal Government information more widely available to the American public through commercial book dealers, the Government Printing Office (GPO) adopted the use of ONIX (Online Information Exchange) as a metadata format for delivering publication information for U.S. Government information products in the GPO Sales Program. ONIX has become…
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The Dublin Core Metadata Element Set (DC), for which the current iteration is version 1.1 available at http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/, is a simplified schema for description of collections and works within collections.It was conceived in the 1990's to aid in resource discovery as the Internet was expanding and more resources became available. Specific…
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This chapter provides guidance for assigning SuDocs classification numbers to continuing resources, including serials and integrating resources. Apply additional rules from Monographic Series, Cutter Numbers, and Congressional and Legislative Branch Publications chapters when relevant.Identifying a Continuing ResourceContinuing resources are publications issued without a…
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Environmental Impact Statements
Environmental impact statements and related publications should include subject headings which focus on the environmental aspects of a specific topic or topics. The headings "Environmental impact statements" and "Environmental impact analysis" should only be used for works that discuss the methodology of the preparation of…
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For Congressional nomination hearings, the names of nominees for Federal offices are included as subject headings. LC's "rule of three" and "rule of four" apply when multiple nominees are the subject of a single hearing. If a hearing involves four or fewer nominees, the name of each nominee is included as a subject heading. If there are more than four nominees, only the…
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Overview
The LC Authority File is comprised of two files: the LC Name Authority File (or the LC NACO file), and the LC Subject Authority File (or the LC SACO file). An important difference between Name Authorities (NACO) and Subject Authorities (SACO) is: NACO is done in real time, but SACO has to go through LC's Subject Approval process, which takes 3-4 months.
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This section addresses the establishment and structure of Superintendent of Documents (SuDocs) classification numbers for monographic series titles. When classifying a monographic series, refer also to Class Stems and Continuing Resources. See especially the “Cuttering a Serial” section of the Continuing Resources chapter for guidance on short-term and…
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This section covers publications that receive special treatment by way of a word, an abbreviation, or other descriptive text that may be added to the end of the classification number. See Additions to Book Numbers for more general information about words and abbreviations in the suffix.
In many cases, a catalog record will already include references to the…
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