This Webinar was presented on Monday, April 4 2016
This webinar reviews the history and principles of the LCSH vocabulary and introduce participants to the basics of content analysis. Participants will learn how to assign main headings and how to build structured headings with topical free-floating subdivisions.
Participants will learn how to find and make use of the Subject Headings Manual and be introduced to Classification Web and Authorities.loc.gov as tools for selection of controlled vocabulary from LCSH. At the conclusion, participants will be able to: describe the principles behind the LCSH vocabulary; identify concepts for subject analysis using the 20% rule, and: construct topical headings and structured headings.
Presented by: Bobby Bothmann
Bobby Bothmann is metadata & emerging technologies librarian at Minnesota State University, Mankato where he holds the rank of professor in Library Services. Bobby’s primary duties include cataloging books and electronic resources, managing large files full of MARC records, investigating mobile resources and other new technologies, and attending a lot of meetings. Bobby has been an active member of OLAC (OnLine Audiovisual Catalogers) since fall 2000 and has served in various leadership roles including treasurer and president.
He is a standing member of the editorial board and former Cataloging News editor for Cataloging & Classification Quarterly. He holds an MLIS from the University of Wisconsin--Milwaukee UWM and an MS in Geography and English Technical Communication from MSU Mankato. Bobby also moonlights an adjunct instructor for the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign where he teaches cataloging and classification courses and tries to covert one student per semester to the cataloging side of the Force.
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