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Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH) are increasingly seen as 'the' English language controlled vocabulary, despite their lack of a theoretical foundation, and their evident US bias. In mapping exercises between national subject heading lists, and in exercises in digital resource organization and management, LCSH are often chosen because of the lack of any other widely accepted English language standard for subject cataloguing. It is therefore important that the basic nature of LCSH, their advantages, and their limitations, are well understood both by LIS practitioners and those in the wider information community. The thirty-eighth edition of Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH 38) contains headings established by the Library through January 2016. The headings included in this list were obtained by creating a file consisting of all subject heading and subdivision records in verified status in the subject authority file at the Library of Congress. Approximately 339,813 authority records were in the file then. The subject authority database from which the headings in this edition were drawn indicates that the file contains approximately 24,156 personal name headings of

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Author

Library of Congress

Published

2016

Language

EN

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Science, Literary Fiction, Library & Information Science