More on Subfield $v

[Weitz,Jay]

As is so often the case, we make mistakes when trying to figure out how to
implement a new practice.  For example, at the Music Library Association
meeting in Los Angeles last month, it was announced that the music
subdivision "Instruction and study" had been re-evaluated.  Although it
currently appears in the SCM (H 1160 and H 1161) as a form subdivision,
further consideration has returned it to topical status; the correction is
supposed to be published in the next SCM Update.  One lesson here is that
we'll learn as we go along.  Things will be in flux for a while.

The Vianne Sha example that you cite, however, is one of those ambiguous
situations that really cannot be resolved without checking the actual item.
Is it a bibliography of juvenile literature that is intended for use by an
adult or general audience?  Or might it be a bibliography of juvenile
literature that is intended for a juvenile audience?  Hard to say,
especially with the heading divorced from any bibliographic context.
Jay

-----Original Message-----
From: Clarence Brown [mailto:cbrown at macc.wisc.edu]
Sent: Monday, April 05, 1999 2:16 PM
To: OCLC Enhance Libraries
Subject: Re: More on Subfield $v


Thankyou for the helpful list of websites.  I consulted H1075 and other
pertinent
chapters in the updated LC Subject Cataloging manual about two months ago. 
Problems developed when a copy of the Sha document from Missouri was
circulated
amongst our catalogers, who found some of the examples contained therein
(e.g.
United States |x Social conditions |y 1980- |v Juvenile literature |v
Bibliography) to be in conflict with  the general guidelines outlined in the
Subject Cataloging Manual (shouldn't juvenile literature in the above case
be a
topical subheading, since this is presumably a bibliography about juvenile
literature, not a bibliography in the form of juvenile literature?)

I've taken printouts of the LC educational forum at the ALA midwinter, the U
Mississippi memo, the Schiff training material and am passing it on to our
catalogers.  I only wish I had access to this material two months ago!!
 
Thanks again!    



At 12:51 PM 4/5/99 -0400, you wrote:
>As an addendum to my previous posting on the Subfield $v question, my
>colleague Linda Gabel has suggested checking out some of these Web sites.
>Collectively, they offer both historical background on the form/genre
>question and some insights into current practice and interpretation.
>Jay
>
>
>Form Headings/Subdivisions:
>
>The handouts, etc., from the Subject Analysis Committee's Subcommittee on
>Form Headings/Subdivisions Implementation educational forum that was held
>during ALA have been posted to the Subcommittee's website.  The URL is: 
>http://www.pitt.edu/~agtaylor/ala/edforum.htm
>
>For the Subcommittee's current website see:
>http://www.pitt.edu/~agtaylor/ala/implem.htm
>
>For background material on the form/genre issue please see:
>http://www.pitt.edu/~agtaylor/ala/alac.htm
>
>For LC's description of the new subdivision authority records:
>http://lcweb.loc.gov/catdir/cpso/subdauth.html
>
>Vianne Sha, University of Missouri-Columbia:
>http://www.missouri.edu/~mulvsha/lcshforms/Form_Subdivisions_List.htm
>
>Kathleen Wells, University of Southern Mississippi Libraries:
>http://www.lib.usm.edu/~techserv/cat/formsubv.htm#top
>