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contents, or the blurb on the jacket. The title is of ten un informative or
misleading, and not a good source to use in try ing to fig ure out the
main topic of the ma terial. Sometimes a more thor ough examination is
needed to completely un derstand what sub jects the material cov ers. In
such cases, more in-depth study of the ma terial be comes nec essary. If
the sub ject still is not ap parent, then ref erences should be used, or a
subject spe cialist should be con sulted. Some times the lan guage of the
material is so spe cific, as in the case of foreign publications, that a lan -
guage spe cialist should be con sulted.
After the subject is de termined, ei ther Library of Con gress Sub ject
Head ings or Sears List of Sub ject Head ings is con sulted to find the uni -
form term that then be comes the sub ject heading. This sub ject heading
is ei ther put on the bottom part of the cat alog card, with an Arabic num -
bered se quence, or in put onto the computer screen us ing the MARC
format (see Chap ter 8) 6XX fields des ignated for sub ject headings. For
example, per sonal name headings are tagged 600, corporate name
headings are tagged 610, topical head ings are tagged 650, and geo -
graphical headings are tagged 651. Fig ure 5.1 shows the two sub ject
headings printed on the bot tom of the card: Pro cessing (Li braries)—
Man age ment and Li brary Ad min is tra tion.
Figure 5.2 shows the same in formation on the computer screen
where the sub ject headings are in the 650 field. The dif ferent kinds of

FIGURE 5.1. Sub ject Head ings on a Card

Cargill, Jennifer S.

Z Library management and technical ser vices : the chang ing
688.5 role of tech ni cal ser vices in Li brary or ga ni za tions /
.L48 Jennifer Cargill, ed itor.—New York : Haworth Press, c1988.
1988 154 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Published as v. 9, no. 1 of the Jour nal of li brary
ad min is tra tion.
In cludes bib li og ra phies.
ISBN 0-86656-779-8
1. Pro cessing (Li braries)—Man age ment. 2. Li brary
ad min is tra tion. I. Cargill, Jennifer S.
18 NOV 88 17650291 MHGAdc 88-6824