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.

Titbit about my LC notes

I just found the index to my files, and I created 39 files; including examples, references, outlines, and workshops.

Arrangement of the Literature schedules (P-PZ)

P      Philology and linguistics

PA     Classical (Greek & Latin) philology.  Greek & Latin literature.

PH-PH     Modern European languages
                      PB: Celtic
                      PC: Romanic
                      PD-PF: Germanic
                      PG: Slavic, Baltic, Albanian

PJ-PK     Oriental philology & literature.  Indo-Iranian philology and literature.
                     PJ: Oriental (Eastern Mediterranean)-- Egypt, Semitic, Ethiopian
                     PK: Indo-Iranian-- Northern Indic (Hindi, Bengali, etc.), Sanskrit, Iranian, Dardic,
                               Armenian, Caucasian.

PL-PM     Languages, of Eastern Asia, Africa, Oceania, Hyperborean, Indian, & Artificial.
                      PL: Ural-Altaic, Japanese, Korean, Chinese, Sino-Tibetan, Southeast Asia, Dravidian
                             (South India), Oceania, Africa.
                      PM: Native American, Mixed (Creole), Artificial, Picture, Secret.                  

PN       Literature (General)

PQ       French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese literatures

PR      English literature

PS      American literature

PT     German, Dutch, Scandinavian literatures

PG     Russian literature

PZ      Juvenile belles lettres (arranged by language)

P-PZ   Language and literature tables

P-PM  Index to languages and dialects

Organization of the N schedule

N       Visual arts

           This is the broadest and most general of all the subclasses, except for NX.  It includes
              museums and exhibitions; as well as movements which cover more than one country.

NA     Architecture

           The most concrete form of art.

NB     Sculpture

           Goes from general to specific forms.  From large works to small works.

NC     Drawing. Design. Illustration.

            From stone to paper (hard to soft)

ND     Painting

             A special form of drawing.

NE     Print media

            Another special form of drawing.

NK     Decorative arts. Applied arts. Decoration and ornament.

            The smallest and most detailed forms.  The technical side of these forms go in T.

NX     The arts in general.

            This is for items which cover more than just the visual arts (music, etc.)

Other information

            Biographies are classified by the main type of work that the person did; and then by country.                 There are 2 tables used for "special artists" and "special countries".
         
            Countries may be subdivided by time period or artistic movement. Movements are also found               subclass N if the movement being discussed covers more than one country.

General information about LC classification schedules

These are my notes for a very basic outline, tailored to the audience I was teaching. I have more detailed outlines for different subjects/schedules. All comments, corrections, updates are welcome. The geographic arrangement of each book is: United States, North America, South America, Europe, Asia, Africa, Everywhere else. A: Works too general or comprehensive to go in any subject-- Encyclopedias, dictionaries, museums, periodicals, etc. B: Philosophy (divided by national literatures, time periods and authors) and Religions. D-F: History-- Divided geographically; then subdived by time period and locality. G: Geography-- The only schedule with triple cutters (maps); also contains recreation, anthropology, and folklore. H: Social sciences-- Economics, statistics, crime, social groups. J: Political Science-- Theory to specific, then local. Constitutions used to go here. K: Law: Divided geographically, then by subject, then by local and local subject. Structure is basically the same for all places: Statutes, constitutions, subject When this was written, religious law had not been finished. Law of Europe-- places that no longer exist (e.g., Burgundy) go in their present geographical area (there are places in the schedules for these) Procedure 1. Find county of law 2. Find subject (civil, common, etc.) 3. Use appropriate tables (Law uses form tables rather than place tables. L. Education QRS: Science, Medicine, Agriculture-- these have the most overlap because of different treatments/aspects of the topics. M: Music. Single voice to multiple voice; history and criticism; study and teaching. Keyboard first; then strings, winds, percussion, vocal First by form, then by composer. Double-cuttered: composer/title. N: The arts-- Concrete to abstract. Form then nationality or chronology; then artist. P-PZ: Language and literature History and criticism; chronology, form. T: Technology-- contains technology, flight, cooking. U-V: Military and Navel Sciences. Z: Books, printing, libraries, bibliography.

Once upon a time, libraries didn't add Spanish language subject headings to records. We have bibliographic records from that time. So, I'm adding them in our local catalog. The river is lazy today, with ducks taking siesta, and lots of visitors.

Bilindex. Okay, but out of date and seems to be condensing headings. e.g., there are 2.5 pages of headings which they have changed to "Ciencias politicas". I have started to create my own headings, and would like to add Spanish authority records to our catalog.-- but at least one project needs to be completed first.