This has been a tough section to understand: Subject Headings. There are other things in life that I do not understand very well. Here are a few:
(2) Pet clothing
So, I didn’t do….as bad as I thought I would on the first “Digging” assignment. I missed small parts of all, but especially the Thomas Jefferson assignment.
It seems with Subject Headings that I just barely get it wrong on most of them. Of course, that still makes them wrong.
I almost feel like I need to be psychic to get the right Subject Headings. Take for example the following subject for a book:
“Card playing San Francisco Giant fans in the Northeast Himalayas who wear nose rings on every other Sunday of the month of July in even-numbered years.”
Now, I understand that this is a bit of a sarcastic example to use, but bear with me. What’s the most important thing to look up? Nose rings? Card playing, which would be under “games”? San Francisco Giants fans? The Himalayas? July in 2012, 2014, 2016, and 2018? I think the main part would be card playing because the rest of the adjectives are describing the people who play cards and when they play.
Here’s my guess….
Card games--…….
And that’s as far as I got. Any ideas?
Since this is my final blog for this 6120 class, I will say that I have really learned a lot. I can now look in a library and understand the Sears and the LOC, even though when I asked my local public library which one they used the most, they looked at me with a blank look.
This class has definitely been challenging. But, that’s not a bad thing. Not a bad thing at all.
