I have a new milkweed plant, and there are 2 caterpillars on it. In a couple of weeks, I ought to have a chrysalis, and a couple of weeks after that, butterflies. Whether or not they're monarchs, I don't know yet.
Both my radishes and daikon are growing nicely, but the garlic didn't sprout, so I'll plant some more of it.
The library and the river
Life in San Antonio Texas by a northern transplant. With additional notes on cataloging and classification.
Tuesday, October 25, 2016
Thursday, August 4, 2016
Sunday, July 24, 2016
Short guide to subject headings and subdivisions
There are 4 types of subdivisions:
Topical subfield x
Geographic subfield z
Chronological subfield y
Form subfield v
There are 2 basic orders (minor variations are always possible) of subject strings.
[Place] -- [topic] headings (used for aspects of a place)
[Topic] -- [place] headings (used for topical headings that can be subdivided by place)
Order of subdivisions and meanings of subject strings
Form subdivision always goes last
Follow instructions in the manual and subject heading books/files
The meaning of a string may be tested by constructing a phrase using the elements in reverse order: e.g.,
Authors, English -- 20th century -- Biography.
(A biography of a 20th century English author)
The same elements may express different concepts based on their order:
Science -- History -- Periodicals.
(A periodical on the history of science)
Science -- Periodicals -- History
(A history of periodicals in the field of science)
Free-floating subdivisions
General subdivisions H1095
Persons & ethnic groups H1100 & H1103
Corporate bodies and families H1105 & H1120
Place names: H1140 (countries, cities, etc.)
H1145.5 (bodies of water)
Pattern headings H1146-H1200
Topical subfield x
Geographic subfield z
Chronological subfield y
Form subfield v
There are 2 basic orders (minor variations are always possible) of subject strings.
[Place] -- [topic] headings (used for aspects of a place)
[Topic] -- [place] headings (used for topical headings that can be subdivided by place)
Order of subdivisions and meanings of subject strings
Form subdivision always goes last
Follow instructions in the manual and subject heading books/files
The meaning of a string may be tested by constructing a phrase using the elements in reverse order: e.g.,
Authors, English -- 20th century -- Biography.
(A biography of a 20th century English author)
The same elements may express different concepts based on their order:
Science -- History -- Periodicals.
(A periodical on the history of science)
Science -- Periodicals -- History
(A history of periodicals in the field of science)
Free-floating subdivisions
General subdivisions H1095
Persons & ethnic groups H1100 & H1103
Corporate bodies and families H1105 & H1120
Place names: H1140 (countries, cities, etc.)
H1145.5 (bodies of water)
Pattern headings H1146-H1200
Thursday, July 21, 2016
Individual authors ( classes P-PZ)
Normally, all works by the same person (no matter what name they write under) go in the same number.
Multiple numbers are established for those who write in more than one language.
Factors to consider in locating an author's classification number:
Language in which the author wrote
Nationality
Time period the author was productive
[Taken from LC's classification manual, F632]
Procedure to find or establish a literary author number:
-- Check NAF, your local catalog, and online LC records
-- If the language is divided by countries (like Spanish), choose the country of the author's citizenship
-- If you can't tell, select a country based on birthplace, parentage, residences, or place of publication of works
For authors who write in more than one language:
-- Class translations and critical studies of individual works with the original works
-- Class collective criticism of several works according to the language of the works studied
-- Put general criticism and biography of the author in the number that best represents his\her total literary output.
Progress on my files
I have found and ordered a reader so I can get into my old files. It ought to make things faster than me typing everything in.
Language and Literature schedules: a general guide
General and Notes on the Tables
--The "major" literatures (English/American, French, Italian, Spanish, Germanic, and Russian) are in separate scheduled from their literatures.
--All the works of an author go in one number-- they are not separated by novels, drama, etc.
-- English translations of many (especially Greek and Latin) books are in the regular schedules (e.g., histories) and not in PA.
--P and PN are the only schedules with their own index.
-- Sometimes there is no instruction pointing you to a table, so we use logic/intuition.
[Information concerning the book schedules and their tables has been removed]
The Outline of Language
Periodicals, societies, collections, etc.
History of philology, history of the language
Study and teaching
General works
Script
Grammar (textbooks, readers morphology and syntax)
Style, composition, rhetoric, prosody (writing and writing styles)
Translating
Etymology (names, words in general)
Lexicography (dictionaries, word lists)
Linguistic geography, dialects, provincialisms (local usage)
The Outline of Literature
Treatment of special subjects and classes
History & criticism by period
History & criticism by special type/genre
General collections
By type of author
By special topic
Translations of general collections
Collections by period
Collections by form or subject
Collections by genre: poetry, drama, prose
Individual authors & works grouped by period
Local (Authors who live in "foreign" countries)
[Information on adding subject headings to fiction removed-- it has changed]
PZ Juvenile Belle Lettres
PZ Juvenile Belle Lettres
Class in PZ: juvenile and young adult fiction, general collections, picture storybooks, alphabet and counting books with a story line, stories in rhyme, individual song texts illustrated for children, juvenile folk tales, and traditional nursery rhymes.
Class juvenile poetry, drama, humor, and comic books in the P-PT literature schedules.
Polyglot belle lettres go in PZ 10.5.
Bilingual juvenile fiction, fairy tales folklore, and fables go in the number of the lesser-known language (remember LC's bias that English is it's predominant language). Bilingual poetry and drama go in P-PT with the original language.
PZ used to include all fiction in English, and all juvenile works.
-- All fiction is now classified in literature.
-- All juvenile non-fiction is now classed in the regular subject schedules.
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