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Feedback Survey about Form Subdivision ($v) Omission from Subject Headings

Posted By Deborah Tomaras Aug 22, 2025 05:26 PM
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(Apologies for cross-posting.) The ALA Core Subject Analysis Committee's Working Group on $v Retention invites you to participate in a survey investigating potential impacts on library collections, catalogs, staff, and patrons of the Library of Congress' omission of form subdivisions ($v) in subject ...

Feedback Survey about Form Subdivision ($v) Omission from Subject Headings

Posted By Deborah Tomaras Aug 22, 2025 04:01 PM
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(Apologies for cross-posting.) The ALA Core Subject Analysis Committee Working Group on $v Retention invites you to participate in a survey investigating potential impacts on library collections, catalogs, staff, and patrons of the Library of Congress' omission of form subdivisions ($v) in subject ...

Report from the Working Group on $v Retention

Posted By Deborah Tomaras Jul 31, 2025 02:14 PM
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The ALA Core Subject Analysis Committee Working Group on $v Retention was formed in March 2025, in response to the Library of Congress' announcement in January 2025 that it would be discontinuing the use of $v form subdivisions when assigning subject headings in "Modern MARC," in favor of only including ...

RE: today's SAC meeting

Posted By Deborah Tomaras Jul 31, 2025 01:09 PM
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I'm still waiting too ------------------------------ Deborah Tomaras Metadata and Resource Management Librarian Marist University, James A. Cannavino Library She/Her/Hers ------------------------------

2023 Midwinter - Report of the Joint GNCRT/SAC/OLAC Working Group on Compound Terms in the LCGFT Vocabulary

Posted By Deborah Tomaras Jan 09, 2023 02:49 PM
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SAC23--Old Business--Report of the Joint GNCRT/SAC/OLAC Working Group on Compound Terms in the LCGFT Vocabulary

Posted By Deborah Tomaras Jan 09, 2023 02:49 PM
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The joint GNCRT/SAC/OLAC working group advocating for the inclusion of compound terms in the LCGFT vocabulary has finished our report. As a reminder, our group was attempting to justify the validity and use value of so-called "compound terms" containing words from more than one already-existing genre ...

SAC Annual New Business--Absence of “Manga” in LCGFT and LCSH

Posted By Deborah Tomaras Jun 01, 2022 09:59 AM
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At the PCC Operations Committee meeting on May 6, 2022, librarians from multiple institutions questioned the lack of "Manga" as an accepted term in the LCGFT vocabulary, and expressed a desire to have manga added to the LCGFT. The ALA Graphic Novels and Comics Round Table's Metadata and Cataloging Committee ...

2022 Annual - GNCRT Report - Absence of “Manga” in LCGFT and LCSH

Posted By Deborah Tomaras Jun 01, 2022 09:58 AM
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SAC Annual GNCRT/SAC Working Group old business report

Posted By Deborah Tomaras May 31, 2022 04:02 PM
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All: Please find attached the follow-up from the Joint GNCRT/SAC Working Group on Subject Headings Guidance for Comics and Comic Characters, ahead of Friday's "Old Business" discussion. Thanks! Best, Deborah Deborah Tomaras Metadata and Resource Management Librarian James A. Cannavino Library ...

2022 Annual - Follow-up on the Report of the Joint GNCRT/SAC Working Group on Subject Headings Guidance for Comics and Comic Characters

Posted By Deborah Tomaras May 31, 2022 04:01 PM
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