Headings to be Added by the Cataloger "Key" Headings List of Canceled and Replaced Headings The Use of Subdivisions in the Sears List List of Subdivisions Provided for in the Sears List Search the Sears List of Subject Headings Preface Since the first edition in , the Sears List has served the unique needs of small and medium-sized libraries, suggesting headings appropriate for use in their catalogs and providing patterns and instructions for adding new headings as they are required.
The successive editors of the List have faced the need to accommodate change while maintaining a sound continuity. The new and revised headings in each edition reflect developments in the material cataloged, in the use of the English language, and in cataloging theory and practice. The aim is always to make library collections as easily available as possible to library users. The Principles of the Sears List, which follows A History of the Sears List, is intended both as a statement of the theoretical foundations of the Sears List and as a concise introduction to subject cataloging in general.
The List of Commonly Used Subdivisions, which follows the Principles, lists, for the purpose of easy reference, every subdivision for which there is a provision in the List, no matter how specialized. For every subdivision there is also an entry in the alphabetical List with full instructions for the use of that particular subdivision. Email info searslistofsubjectheadings. This is the first edition of Sears List produced by Grey House Publishing, which acquired the title in In addition to updating the look of Sears List with cleaner lines and more accessible typography, the content is now also available as a free, online database that librarians can access, at no charge for one year.
Grey House is pleased to welcome you to this new edition with its many new and improved features. The major feature of this new edition of the Sears List is the inclusion of more than 1, new and revised subject headings.
New headings in this edition reflect the changing needs of library users, which includes addressing the growing literature in the areas of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics STEM.
With same-sex marriage reaching full legal status in all 50 states in , and some terms becoming pejorative, the Sears database updated a number of LGBTQIA headings in , including but not limited to: Asexual people, Transgender teenagers , and LGBT people in the military.
In these and other areas many provisions have been added for creating more new headings as needed. Many of the headings new to this edition were suggested by librarians representing various sizes and types of libraries, by commercial vendors of bibliographic records, and by the catalogers, indexers, and subject specialists at EBSCO Information Services.
In addition to those new headings, the sixth edition of The Sears List Canadian Companion is now fully incorporated into this edition of the Sears List. This incorporation included the expansion and reconciliation of notes where the Canadian Companion contained more information and options, and the revision of Canadian headings Fur trade and Lacrosse to Fur trade—Canada and Lacrosse—Canada. The Sears List subdivision Description and travel was chosen over the Canadian subdivision Description.
This inclusion aims to improve the efficiency and accessibility of the Sears List for catalogers by assembling the vocabulary into one volume. It also reflects the increasing international use of the Sears List in library cataloging.
Those headings that originated in The Sears List Canadian Companion are not identified as such, as this edition of Sears List and those going forward, are treated as one inclusive vocabulary.
With the twenty-first edition, all headings conform to the new RDA standards. While many of the rules have stayed the same, there is an impact on the format of subject headings in certain areas.
This new edition of the Sears List makes a concentrated effort to adhere to those new standards where applicable including bringing headings for fictional characters, legendary characters, and deities into compliance. Other revisions address the changing demographics of library users and aim to correspond more closely to current literature and library patron search expectations.
This includes canceling headings such as Elderly in favor of Older people , and Aliens Foreign population in favor of Noncitizens , both of which may be subdivided geographically by continent, region, country, state, or city. For the convenience of librarians maintaining their catalogs, these revisions and all other revisions are spelled out in the List of Canceled and Replacement Headings.
Wilson employee and long-time colleague of Joseph Miller, editor of the fifteenth and subsequent editions. No list can possibly provide a heading for every idea, object, process, or relationship, especially not within the scope of a single volume.
What Sears hopes to offer instead is a basic list that includes many of the headings most likely to be needed in small libraries together with patterns and examples that will guide the cataloger in creating additional headings as needed.
New topics appear every day, and books on those topics require new subject headings. Headings for new topics can be developed from the Sears List in two ways, by establishing new terms as needed and by subdividing the headings already in the List. Instructions for creating new headings based on the pattern in Sears and sources for establishing the wording of new headings are given in the Principles of the Sears List.
The various kinds of subdivisions and the rules for their application are also discussed in the Principles of the Sears List. It is only by being flexible and expandable that Sears has been able over the years to fill the needs of various kinds of libraries. The degree or level of specificity required for a collection depends entirely on the material being collected. While a small library is unlikely to need very narrow topics of a technical or scientific nature, it is not at all unlikely that it might have a gardening book on Irises.
That term is not in the List, but it would be added as a narrower term under Flowers. It was the policy of Minnie Sears to use the Library of Congress form of subject headings with some modification, chiefly the simplification of phrasing. The Sears List still reflects the usage of the Library of Congress unless there is some compelling reason to vary, but those instances of variation have become numerous over the years.
A major difference between the two lists is that in Sears the direct form of entry has replaced the inverted form, on the theory that most library users search for multiple-word terms in the order in which they occur naturally in the language. In most cases cross-references have been made from the inverted form and from the Library of Congress form where it otherwise varies.
As in previous editions, all the new and revised headings in this edition have been provided with scope notes where such notes are required. Scope notes are intended to clarify the specialized use of a term or to distinguish between terms that might be confused. If there is any question of what a term means, the cataloger should simply consult a dictionary. There are times, however, when subject headings require a stricter limitation of a term than the common usage given in a dictionary would allow, as in the case of Marketing , a term in business and economics, not to be confused with Grocery shopping.
Here a scope note is required. Some scope notes distinguish between topics and forms, such as Encyclopedias and dictionaries for critical and historical materials and the subdivisions Encyclopedias and Dictionaries under topics for items that are themselves encyclopedias or dictionaries. There are also scope notes in Sears that identify any headings in the area of literature that may be assigned to individual works of drama, fiction, poetry, etc.
The classification numbers in this edition of Sears are taken from the Abridged WebDewey , the continuously updated online version of the Abridged Dewey Decimal Classification. The numbers are intended only to direct the cataloger to a place in the DDC schedules where material on that subject is often found. They are not intended as a substitute for consulting the schedules, notes, and manual of the DDC itself when classifying a particular item.
The relationship between subject headings and classification is further discussed in the Principles of the Sears List. Usually only one number is assigned to a subject heading. In some cases, however, when a subject can be treated in more than one discipline, the subject is then given more than one number in the List. The heading Chemical industry , for example, is given two numbers, Classification numbers are not assigned to a few very general subject headings, such as Charters, Exhibitions, Hallmarks , and Identification , which cannot be classified unless a specific application is identified.
The alphabetic notation of B for individual biographies is occasionally provided in addition to Dewey classification numbers for such materials. Classification The classification numbers in this edition of Sears are taken from the Abridged WebDewey, the continuously updated online version of the Abridged Dewey Decimal Classification.
The numbers are intended only to direct the cataloger to a place in the DDC schedules where material on that subject is often found. It is only by being flexible and expandable that Sears List has been able over the years to fill the needs of a wide variety of libraries around the world.
The Principles of Sears List is included in this volume, outlining the theoretical foundations of the Sears List and providing a concise introduction to subject cataloging in general. This introduction is recommended reading about the fundamentals of subject cataloging. Join Our Mailing List. Get updates on H. Wilson's latest news and promotions. Wilson publishes database and reference resources to serve libraries, schools and corporations. Wilson Collections.
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