CH/YA Materials (subject headings)

Comic Books/Graphic Novels

Revised Guidelines: Why?

• Simplifying and/or clarifying guidelines
• Starting to incorporate new developments in genre/form terms

LCGFT

• "Library of Congress Genre/Form Terms for Library and Archival Materials"
  • Moving image materials, spoken-word sounds (radio programs) -- 2008
  • Cartographic materials, law materials -- 2010
  • General terms, literature, musical works, religious works -- 2015

Subject Headings vs. Genre/Form Terms

• See the definitions in CH/YA cataloging guidelines

Genre/Form Terms and Subject Cataloging in Transition

• What happens when 650 field is used only for subject terms representing what the work is about?
  • 650 _0 $a American poetry $x Women authors. (currently assigned to an anthology of American poetry by female poets)
  • 655 _7 $a Poetry. $2 lcgft
    • Also, genre/form terms for a single work

Subject Cataloging in Transition

650 _0 $a Hurricane Katrina, 2005 $v Juvenile literature.

What happens when 650 field is used only for subject terms representing what the work is about?

385 __ $n age $a Children $2 lcdgt (LC Demographic Group Terms) [Audience characteristics]

650 _0 $a Hurricane Katrina, 2005.

[possible cataloging scenario]

Implementing LCGFT

• LC has not yet decided when it will implement LCGFT in new cataloging
• We are beginning to see LCGFT terms on copy records
• TCNJ Library will implement LCGFT on a very limited basis; LCGFT terms (including 655 fields in general) on copy records will be monitored and verified by librarians/LTI

Searching for LCGFT Terms

LCGFT: General Terms

• LC approved 175 "general" terms to add to LCGFT last year
• Many terms have corresponding, if perhaps slightly different, headings or form subdivisions in LCSH
  • LCSH: $v Biography     LCGFT: Biographies
  • LCSH: $v Congresses   LCGFT: Conference papers and proceedings
  • LCSH: $v Handbooks, manuals, etc.                 LCGFT: Handbooks and manuals
  • LCSH: $v Periodicals    LCGFT: Serial publications
• All LCGFT general terms are in the plural form

LCGFT General Terms: 10 Broadest Terms

• Commemorative works; Creative nonfiction; Derivative works; Discursive works; Ephemera; Illustrated works; Informational works; Instructional and educational works; Recreational works; Tactile works

LCGFT for Literary Works

• LC approved about 380 terms to add to LCGFT last year
• Literature is the top term. Narrower terms mostly fall under five main terms:
  • Comics (Graphic works); Drama; Fiction; Folk literature; Poetry
• Many LCGFT terms have corresponding, if slightly different, headings in LCSH
  • LCSH: Adventure stories     LCGFT: Adventure fiction
  • LCSH: Horror tales     LCGFT: Horror ficion
  • LCSH: Tragedy     LCGFT: Tragedies