A practical guide to Library of Congress subject headings / Karen Snow. [print]

Includes bibliographies and index.

Library of Congress Subject Headings in a Nutshell -- Basic Principles of Subject Analysis -- Searching and Browsing LCSH in Classification Web -- Subdivisions and Free-Floating Subdivisions -- MARC Coding of LCSH -- The Subject Headings Manual (SHM) -- Geographic Subject Headings and Subdivisions -- Personal Name Subject Headings and Biographies -- Fiction -- Conclusion; LCSH Resources -- Appendix A: Answers to End-of-Chapter Exercises -- Appendix B: Free-Floating Subdivisions: Form and Topical -- Appendix C: Free-Floating Subdivisions: Names of Places -- Appendix D: Free-Floating Subdivisions: Names of Persons.

"Here's a resource that uses language non-catalogers can understand and provides hands-on, user-friendly training in LCSH. The book offers a brief history of LCSH, discusses basic principles of subject analysis, explains the key principles of LCSH, and details how to choose and apply LCSH subject headings and subheadings"--

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Karen Snow is an associate professor and PhD program director in the School of Information Studies at Dominican University, River Forest, Illinois. She teaches cataloging, classification, and metadata courses and has written many journal articles on cataloging topics and cataloging education. She is the author of A Practical Guide to Library of Congress Classification published in 2017.