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:
DDC Dewey Decimal Classification
LCSH Library of Congress Subject Headings
LCC Library of Congress Classification
MeSH Medical Subject Headings
NLM National Library of Medicine Classification
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 |
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