From: "Wallace J.McLean" <ag737@freenet.carleton.ca> To: gutvol-d@lists.pglaf.org Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2006 15:04:55 -0400 Subject: Re: [gutvol-d] Re: Search by subject for ebooks?
Which any decent library already takes into account when cataloguing, which is why it would be easiest to catalogue under any and all pre- existing catalogue headings as given in major national library catalogues like LOC, AMICUS, British libraries, etc., etc., etc., unless, of course, there is a patently wrong catalogue entry. (That happens.)
If I recall (Andrew, please correct me if I'm wrong), there's was previously a cataloguer who was putting in that sort of thing, see (random example) http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/2852 which is filed under "Holmes, Sherlock (Fictitious character) -- Fiction" as well as "Private investigators -- England -- Fiction", and its LCC class (PR, English literature). Andrew said that this hasn't been done in a while, but if there's interest, I'm going to be entering a Library Science program this fall, which I reckon would make me an incipient professional librarian--I'd be quite interested in applying cataloguing standards to the PG catalog.