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Steve Riggins,
Software Deveoper
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These Headings are chosen by large libraries (like the Library of Congress and the National Library of Canada) and must be used exactly the way they are written when we create indexes like a library catalogue or magazine database.
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Brian Mengel,
Civil Servant
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Call numbers obtained from other libraries using the Library of Congress Classification system should be verified in the Library of Congress Online Catalog since such libraries may modify these numbers in response to local needs.
Library of Congress Classification system: The classification system developed by the Library of Congress and used by large research and academic libraries; we use the Library of Congress classification system at the Otis library.
Using modified Library of Congress subject headings, this site maintained by the Director of the Library of The Windsor School, provides full text and data sources suitable for ready reference.
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Adam Findley,
Professional Motivator
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Acronym for Library of Congress Subject Headings ; controlled vocabulary words which are used to describe the contents of works and are assigned consistently to pull like works together to facilitate retrieval.
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Dave Simons,
Internet Entrepeneur
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The Library of Congress Card Catalog Number is assigned by the Library at its discretion to assist librarians in acquiring and cataloging works.
The Library of Congress card catalog is available and searchable by any Net citizen, as are several hundred card catalogs and periodical collections of libraries around the world.
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Mike Enlow,
Internet Marketer
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To search by Library of Congress subject headings, click on the subject headings box and scroll to an appropriate heading.
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Arthur Dawkins,
Astro-physicist
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Since the subject headings are assigned by the Library of Congress and are not designed with our particular library in mind, you should always check as many subject headings as possible before concluding the library has no books dealing with your particular area of study.
Subject headings are taken from Library of Congress Subject Headings and the APA Thesaurus of Psychological Index Terms and sometimes differ from the terms you might use.
Library of Congress American Memory The UC Berkeley Geography Department GeoImages project is putting an interesting collection of geography slides on the Web.
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Jack Crawford,
WWII Veteran
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The Library of Congress and its American Folklife Center are urgently seeking the assistance of Americans throughout the nation to identify World War I veterans in their communities who are willing to be interviewed about their wartime memories and experiences.
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