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FIGURE 5.2. Sub ject Head ings on a Com puter Screen

MHG — FOR OTHER HOLDINGS, ENTER dh DEPRESS DISPLAY RECD SEND
OCLC: 17650291 Rec stat: p Entrd: 880307 Used: 891026
Type: a Bib lvl: m Govt pub: Lang: eng Source: Illus: a
Repr: Enc lvl: Conf pub: 0 Ctry: nyu Dat tp: s M/F/B: 00
Indx: 0 Mod rec: Festschr: 0 Contr: b
Desc: a Int lvl: Dates: 1988,
1 010 88—6824
2 040 DLC |c DLC
3 020 0866567798
4 050 0 Z688.5 |b. .L48 1988
5 082 0 025 / .02 |2 19
6 049 MHGA
7 245 00 Library man agement and tech nical ser vices : |b the
chang ing role of tech nical ser vices in li brary or ganizations / |c Jennifer S.
Cargill, ed i tor.
8 260 0 New York: |b Haworth Press, |c c1988.
9 300 154 p. : |b ill. ; |c 23 cm.
10 500 Published also as v. 9, num ber 1 of the Jour nal of
li brary ad min is tra tion.
11 504 In cludes bib li og ra phies.
12 650 0 Pro cessing (Li brar ies) |x Man age ment.
13 650 0 Li brary ad min is tra tion.
14 700 10 Cargill, Jennifer S.

subdivisions are marked by the MARC for mat subfields, pre ceded by
a de limiter, $ or ≠ or |. For ex ample, |× for top i cal sub di vi sions, |ν for
form sub di vi sions, |y for pe riod sub divisions, and |z for geo graphical
sub di vi sions, ex plained in detail with ex amples later on in the chap ter.
Because of the ex pense of print ing, fil ing, and maintaining ex tra
cards, it is rec ommended that sub ject headings as signed to an item in a
card sys tem library be lim ited to three or four. For au tomated libraries,
the cat aloging staff is en couraged to as sign as many sub ject headings
as deemed nec essary.
If sub ject headings need to be more spe cific, sub ject sub divisions
are added to the sub ject headings, sep arated by a dash (–). Sub ject sub -
divisions may be the de scription of phys ical forms, such as Maps or
Dic tio naries; they may be topical, such as His tory or Study and
Teaching; they may be geographical, such as Paris (France) or United