Tag: collection development

Library of Congress Subject Headings continue to change and evolve, sometimes in most interesting ways. They often serve as social commentary, historical milestones, and, sometimes, entertainment.

Here are six that are in the spirit of recently passed legislation (with the overall topic first):

Same-sex marriage (May Subdivide Geographically)  — established in 1992

Etiquette for gay men (May Subd. Geog.)  — est. 1995

Gay adoption (May Subd. Geog.)  — est. 2004

Gay and lesbian dance parties (May Subd. Geog.)  — est. 2005

Mattachine Society  — est. 1988

Wedding costume (May Subd. Geog.)  — est. 1986

 

brought  to you by

Jean Dickinson &

Jane Rosario

Catalog Department

 

 

­June 5, 2013­

Unlike our earlier installments of Library of Congress Subject Headings of Interest, this selected list shows changes that have occurred, including several changes from the past that perfectly show the evolution of awareness that often happens in subject heading creation and usage.

Gypsies became: Romanies (changed in 2000) (May subdivide geographically)

Handicapped became: People with Disabilities (changed in 2003) (May subd geog)

Koran became: Qur?an (changed in March 2013)

Lesbian music became: Women?s music (changed in 1999) (May subd geog)

Unsolicited electronic mail messages became: Spam (Electronic mail) (changed in 2005) (May subd geog)

Violoncello became: Cello (changed in March 2013) (May subd geog)

~ brought to you by Jean Dickinson and Jane Rosario.

Policy on Creating Physical Copies of e-Resources Delivered in Electronic Form
Endorsed by CSC, 6/04/13
Rev. 6/11/12

Background
The UC Berkeley Library is seeing an increase in the number of electronic resources where the resource is delivered directly to the Library in electronic format. Some of these resources are meant to be accessed via their original format (e.g. CD, DVD, etc.) while other resources arrive in formats that need to be hosted on local servers for online access (e.g. PDFs, data files, image files, etc.).

The materials of this second type are usually part of the E-resource Order Request workflow, which allows these materials to be submitted and placed on Library servers. Access is provided to material on these servers in accordance with the terms of their license. In addition, these e-resources are sent to CDL UC3 for long-term preservation.

Given access and preservation is provided through the standard workflow as described above, there should be no need to add additional physical copies (e.g., printout, CD/DVD) of these resources to the collection.

Policy
Materials that arrive in digital format and are accessed by users from the Library’s servers may not have a locally created print or other artifactual copy created and added to the Library’s Collection.

This policy does not apply to the very rare and undesirable case where the license agreement does not allow us to share what was delivered electronically. Nor does it apply to accompanying materials in media format, such as a DVD in the back of a book.

Best, Bernie

We’re slowly building an archive of reports to help selectors assess their collections. In the past, seeing a list of what Berkeley patrons borrowed has been helpful in identifying collection gaps.

Thanks to help from Interlibrary Services, a list of titles Berkeley borrowed fy 2011-12 is now available in an Excel file, http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/Staff/CS/ill.html. This is a big file, so click on the link “VDX-Berkeley” and then wait for a bit (plus a bit more, since you’ll think it isn’t doing anything.)

This list includes items borrowed from other UC’s and from other OCLC libraries, and therefore accounts for the majority of what we borrow. We have asked Stanford to send us titles that Berkeley borrowed via RLCP online, and we’ll let you know via blog when that data becomes available. We have learned that no data is kept on titles we borrow direct from NRLF. What we borrow from University of Texas and through ALA forms, etc. constitute only a handful of transactions that don’t benefit us enough to do the work to get and compile.

As you look at this list, please remember that per UC policy, Interlibrary Borrowing does borrow some items that Berkeley owns, in cases where Berkeley’s copy is unavailable at the time of the request. So please recheck our holdings on any possible candidates for purchase.

If you have any questions or comments on this data, please email me at gford@library.berkeley.edu.

–gail

Library of Congress Subject Headings continue to change and evolve, sometimes in most interesting ways. New subject headings are published monthly, and, as well as signifying the essence of a topic, they can often serve as social commentary or as historical milestones. Here are a few recent ones, or ones that bear highlighting. We?ll continue to share more with you as we collect them.

Berkelium (May Subd. Geog.)

Free thought (May Subd. Geog.)

Middle class (May Subd. Geog.)

Optical antennas (Mat Subd. Geog.)

Plant luminescence (May Subd. Geog.)

Radio and television tower bird strikes (May Subd. Geog.)

Jane Rosario
and
Jean Dickinson

Library of Congress Subject Headings continue to change and evolve, sometimes in most interesting ways. New subject headings are published monthly, and they often serve as social commentary, historical milestones, and, sometimes, entertainment. Here are a few that have academic or everyday uses, and we’ll continue to share more with you as we collect them. We hope you enjoy these.

City and town life in literature
Identity theft (May Subd Geog)
Mariculture (May Subd Geog)
Night eating syndrome (May Subd Geog)
Parties for dogs (May Subd Geog)
Submerged forests (May Subd Geog)

Jean Dickinson & Jane Rosario
Original Cataloging
Catalog Department
December 12th, 2012