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Appendix I. Participant Responsibilities for Applying Subject Indexing Languages


The following list serves both to confirm the thesauri and classification systems falling within the purview of CONSER and to identify those for which each Participant takes responsibility. Emphasis is on current cataloging record creation and no mention is made of local schemes.

Abbreviations:

point_bl.gif DDC Dewey Decimal Classification

point_bl.gif LCSH Library of Congress Subject Headings

point_bl.gif LCC Library of Congress Classification

point_bl.gif MeSH Medical Subject Headings

point_bl.gif NLM National Library of Medicine Classification

point_bl.gif SuDocs Superintendent of Documents Classification

INSTITUTION

NUC/OCLC SYMBOL

CLASSIFICATION

SUBJ HEADINGS

American Theological Library Association

ATL

LCSH

Center for Research Libraries

ICLR/CRL

LCSH

Cornell University LCSH

NIC/COO

LCC (except microforms)

Government Printing Office

DGPO/GPO

SuDOCS

LCSH

Harvard University

MH/HUL

LCC (some)

MCSH, MeSH

Indiana University

InU/IUL

LCC

LCSH

Library of Congress

DLC/DLC

LCC (except some law titles, MLC serials, and microforms);

DDC (some; most U.S. imprints falling within scope of NSDP)

LCSH

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

MCM/MYG

LCC (except periodicals)

LCSH

National Agricultural Library

DNAL/AGL

LCC (except nonbook serials and recon serials)

LCSH, CAB Thesaurus

National Library of Canada

CaOONL/NLC

LCC, in field 055 (for non-govt. serials issued annually or less frequently)

DDC; abridged DDC for MLC

LCSH (except most govt. docs.) Canadian Subject Headings (CSH) Repertoire des cedette matieres (RVM)

National Library of Medicine

NLM

LCC (some non-medical titles; 060 field used)

MeSH

New York Public Library

NN/NYP

Billings and others

LCSH

New York State Library

N/NYG

DDC (except law serials & state documents

LCSH

University of California, Los Angeles

CLU/CLU

LCC (most)

LCSH (most)

University of Florida

FU/FUG

LCC

LCSH

University of Georgia

GU/GUA

LCC

LCSH

University of Michigan

MiU/EYM

LCC (except medical); modified DDC (some)

LCSH

University of Pittsburgh

PPiU/PIT

LCC

LCSH

University of Texas

TxU/IXA

LCC

LCSH

University of Washington

WaU/WAU

LCC, NLM

LCSH, MeSH

Yale University

CtY/YUS

LCC

LCSH

See also:

Section F. Appendices


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