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Stephen wrote: “... Even though considered narrowly "Werewolves $v Fiction" and "Werewolf fiction" may appear to be an over-fine distinction semantically, considered more broadly, each term occupies a distinct place in a distinct type of subject analysis.”

 

Very well said! Some institutions are using (or planning to use) FAST headings exclusively. So for them "Werewolf fiction" (http://id.worldcat.org/fast/2000474) is a must.

 

Also, in SHM H1790, “LC Practice: The special provisions for increased subject access to fiction, 3” [last updated in 2004?] shows the use of genre/form MARC tag 655 #7 in addition to the assignment of [Topic] $v Fiction. The examples at the end of that section all include 655s, except that, instead of $2 gsafd, now we are mostly using $2 lcgft.

 

Why using both? Adam explained it clearly:

“In some ILS's genre/form terms from 655 are indexed separately from subject headings, which I think is the best way to configure a system.  Genres are not subjects and they should have their own search index. Some users may search by topic (Werewolves--Fiction) and others might prefer by genre/form (Werewolf fiction).  Many systems also use genre/form as a facet once you've done an initial search.”

Now I am convinced and would not hesitate to add a genre/form term, whenever appropriate, as in this case.

Yang

 

From: Program for Cooperative Cataloging [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of John Lavalie
Sent: Friday, August 10, 2018 9:55 AM
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Subject: Re: [PCCLIST] Fiction genres vs. --Fiction

 

*That's* a distiction that I can understand.

 

Yesterday, when I said I didn't want to do double work, it isn't just a second heading for one book.  It's doing it going forward, finding the old ones, running reports to keep the two headings in sync ...

 

If the only perceivable difference is what indexes they appear in, what if we did this:

 

155 Werewolf fiction

450 Werewolves $v Fiction

 

Works would always appear as subjects and genres, and the counts would always be identical.

 

 

From: Program for Cooperative Cataloging <[log in to unmask]> On Behalf Of Stephen Hearn
Sent: Thursday, August 9, 2018 10:42 PM
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Subject: Re: [PCCLIST] Fiction genres vs. --Fiction

 

"Werewolf fiction" was preceded in LCGFT by "Werewolf films". The difference between "650 0 $a Werewolves $v Drama" and "655 7 $a Werewolf films $2 lcgft" might be a bit more obvious. When terms were developed for literary genres, prior LCGFT patterns were followed where the case for a semantic difference may not have been as clear..

 

That said, Werewolves and Werewolf are different entry terms.  The former as an LCSH heading will have a variety of subdivisions in use, and each is part of a larger syndetic structure. If you drop "650 0 $a Werewolves $v Fiction", the subcategory of fiction about werewolves will be missing from the access offered for other such subcategories. If you drop the 655, the potential to find werewolf fiction as a narrower type of LCGFT's Paranormal fiction is lost.  Even though considered narrowly "Werewolves $v Fiction" and "Werewolf fiction" may appear to be an over-fine distinction semantically, considered more broadly, each term occupies a distinct place in a distinct type of subject analysis.

 

Stephen

 

On Thu, Aug 9, 2018 at 1:53 PM, John Lavalie <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

>I am still curious why you don’t want to just use both. 

 

Because I don't want to do duplicate work if there's no difference.

 

BTW, I'm a supporter of lcgft.  I convinced my consortium to switch from gsafd.  I'm not suggesting we delete any genre headings.

 

 

 

From: Program for Cooperative Cataloging [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of John Lavalie
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I don’t think I could make that distinction on a regular basis, or for any of the other similar headings (Zombie fiction, Survival fiction, Railroad fiction ... )

 

I'm trying to avoid using both if they're the same, or if the distinction is so fine that users and catalogers can't tell the difference.

 

 

From: Program for Cooperative Cataloging <[log in to unmask]> On Behalf Of Wilson, Pete
Sent: Thursday, August 9, 2018 1:11 PM
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Subject: Re: [PCCLIST] Fiction genres vs. --Fiction

 

The two headings

 

650   Werewolves $v Fiction

 

and

 

655  Werewolf fiction

 

are not equivalent, to my mind.

 

One indicates that a work is about werewolves, though it happens to be fiction.  One indicates that a work is of a genre known as “werewolf fiction.”  Yes, it’s going to be about one or more werewolves. 

 

I would just use both. 

 

Pete Wilson

Vanderbilt University

 

 

 

From: Program for Cooperative Cataloging [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Yang Wang
Sent: Thursday, August 9, 2018 11:57 AM
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A fascinating topic [werewolves] in and of itself!

 

I think that, for a literary compilation, that is, a collection of werewolf stories/novels (either by a single author or several authors), “Werewolves $v Fiction” will be the subject heading.

 

For a single story or a novel in which werewolves are featured, “Werewolves $v Fiction” can also be used (Cf. SHM H1790 4.c). That is the only instance (apart from the categories of biographical fiction and historical fiction) that a subject heading can be assigned, since werewolves are also animals. Otherwise, no subject headings are needed: “Assign no form headings to individual works of adult fiction, children's fiction, or young adult fiction” [italics are mine].

 

For a scholarly study of the literary genre, as Adam has just pointed out, the subject heading will be “Werewolves in literature.”

 

I would hesitate to use “Werewolf fiction” in a bib record, but I certainly find the term very precise and useful when we need to describe the form of a work in an authority record (380).

 

Yang

 

 

From: Program for Cooperative Cataloging [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Adam L. Schiff
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Subject: Re: [PCCLIST] Fiction genres vs. --Fiction

 

Hank is correct.  --Fiction can only be used as a form subdivision, never as a topical subdivision.  Works about a topic in fiction are set up as [topic] in literature.  Werewolves in literature is established in LCSH (http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2002007267).

 

In some ILS's genre/form terms from 655 are indexed separately from subject headings, which I think is the best way to configure a system.  Genres are not subjects and they should have their own search index. Some users may search by topic (Werewolves--Fiction) and others might prefer by genre/form (Werewolf fiction).  Many systems also use genre/form as a facet once you've done an initial search.

 

Adam Schiff

University of Washington Libraries

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Subject: Re: Fiction genres vs. --Fiction

 

I would think that would qualify as Werewolves in fiction (if such a subject exists).

  - - Fiction is a form subdivision, which means the work is a work of fiction.

 

-          Hank

 

William C. (Hank) Young

CONSER Coordinator

George A. Smathers Libraries

University of Florida

 

 

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There may be a scholarly study written about how werewolves have been depicted in fiction.  That would not qualify as Werewolf fiction, the genre.

 

Zora Breeding

Vanderbilt University

 

From: Program for Cooperative Cataloging [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of John Lavalie
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Subject: Re: [PCCLIST] Fiction genres vs. --Fiction

 

Subjects and genres are in the same index and facet, although they appear separately in the full record display, as you would expect.

 

We just left a catalog that separated subjects and genres.  I think I would still be asking the question if we have stayed.

 

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How do they function for users in your library catalog? Display? Retrieval in which searches? Limits?

Jimmie Lundgren

 

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Subject: Re: [PCCLIST] Fiction genres vs. --Fiction

 

Hi,

 

Not sure why would you want to flip 650 Subject Added Entry--Topical Term to 655  Index Term--Genre/Form. They are different.

 

 

 

 

On Thu, Aug 9, 2018 at 9:56 AM, John Lavalie <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

What's the difference between

 

650 Werewolves--Fiction.

   and

655 Werewolf fiction.   ?

 

 

I think there is no difference and I'm considering flipping (locally) those 650s to 655s.  Is there a difference I'm missing?

 

 

John Lavalie | Cataloging and Metadata Specialist | Des Plaines Public Library | http://dppl.org

 

 



 

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