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Subject cataloging depends on lists of controlled subject access vocabulary and thesauri. Library of Congress catalog records generally feature subject access points from one or more of the following thesauri and headings lists:
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Library of Congress Subject Headings is available in print and electronic form from the Library of Congress Cataloging Distribution Service. Subject headings created each week since the most recent full edition are available on the Library of Congress Cataloging Policy and Support Office Web page and in the Cataloging Service Bulletin, on subscription from the Cataloging Distribution Service.

Binding Terms: A Thesaurus for Use in Rare Book and Special Collections Cataloguing (Chicago: Association of College and Reseach Libraries, ALA)

Global Legal Information Network (GLIN) Thesaurus. (Washington, DC: Law Library of Congress)
  >> Link to online version of GLIN Thesaurus

Legislative Indexing Vocabulary (LIV). (Washington, DC: Congressional Research Service)
  >> Link to online version of LIV

The Moving Image Genre-Form Guide. Draft. Compiled by Brian Taves, Judi Hoffman, Karen Lund. (Library of Congress: Motion Picture/Broadcasting/Recorded Sound Division, Feb. 1998)
  >> Link to online version of Moving Image Genre-Form Guide

Moving Image Materials: Genre Terms. Martha M. Yee, compiler, for the National Moving Image Database Standards Committee at the American Film Institute. (Washington, DC: Library of Congress, 1988)

Printing and Publishing Evidence: A Thesaurus for Use in Rare Book and Special Collections Cataloguing (Chicago: Association of College and Research Libraries, ALA)

Provenance Evidence: A Thesaurus for Use in Rare Book and Special Collections Cataloguing (Chicago: Association of College and Research Libraries, ALA)

Thesaurus for Graphic Materials (TGM) : Subject and Genre Terms (Washington, DC: Library of Congress, Cataloging Distribution Service). These standardized subject, genre, format and image process terms and their cross-references offer a means for exploring topics and types of images represented in Prints & Photographs Division collections.   >> Link to the online version of TGM

Type Evidence: A Thesaurus for Use in Rare Book and Special Collections Cataloguing (Chicago: Association of College and Research Libraries, ALA)


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Links to Online Thesauri:

Thesaurus for Graphic
Materials I: Subject Terms

Thesaurus for Graphic
Materials II: Genre and Physical Characteristic Terms

Moving Image
Genre-Form Guide

GLIN Thesaurus

Legislative Indexing
Vocabulary