ALC CATALOGING COMMITTEE
AFRICANA SUBJECT FUNNEL PROJECT
SPRING 1999
AFRI SACO LIAISON
Rebecca Williams will no longer be our LC liaison due to reassignment having to do with the change in ILS to Voyager. We thank her for all her help and hard work on our behalf.
"LOST" HEADINGS
A number of headings submitted in the past year have never made it into MUMS. I have resent the proposals in the last few weeks and am waiting to hear about their status. I apologize to anyone who is waiting to be able to use one of them.
AFRICANA SACO WORKSHOP
An Africana SACO Workshop was held yesterday April, 29,1999 at LC. Information about questions, answers, policies and new headings created during the workshop will be sent to the list in the next month. Please contact me (eplantz@nwu.edu) if you have any concerns or questions about the workshop.
ISSUES & QUESTIONS
FYI, the following questions have been sent forward to SACO
"A member of the funnel has submitted a heading for Political fiction, African which turned out to be for a work that LC has cataloged (Arab A. Politics and the novel in Africa, 1982) and assigned the subjects: African fiction -- Political aspects and Politics and literature -- Africa. Could someone provide some feedback on when to use the heading Political fiction and how it differs from African fiction -- Political aspects."
"Someone has proposed the heading Kenyan essays (English) for Nugugi wa Thiongo's Writers in politics, 1997. It is not clear when LC assigns such a heading to a work. In what appears to be an earlier edition cataloged by LC (81-152224) no such heading is assigned rather the topics of the essays are given. Could you please clarify this for the funnel."
"Could you please explain the possible differences between Proverbs, Arabic
-- Morocco and
Proverbs, Moroccan. Would both headings be used for a work on Moroccan
proverbs? It is not clear how one would decide whether to use a language
or a nationality qualifier.
Answer to last question:
When citing information from a book in a foreign language in a 670, translate everything except the subject term or phrase itself into English.
When searching for references to support a subject heading, the first preference in LCSH is always for an English-language form. Second preference, in the absence of an English term, is for the term in its own language. A term in a third language (French, German, etc) is third choice.