I am only about 30 bibs away from being DONE with this subject heading project. It's taken me a year but I'll have toughed it out, working on it part time, but DONE I TELL YOU....DONE!!!!!!

Go, Dede!!

Bibs?

Hilda : bibliographic record. Each book has one. The ones I am working on didn't have subject headings assigned when they were first added to our catalog. SOOOOO this past year I've been researching

and adding correct Library of Congress subject headings to each bib record which is specific to each book Then I enter them digitally onto the existing record in our catalog AND in the OCLC database which

what WorldCat.org: The World's Largest Library Catalog "runs" from. It's time consuming, boring and the boss kinda' assumed that I'd throw fits about doing it. Seems she just can't get rid of me.

almost 1000 of them and most likely 2000 headings, each typed into 2 databases. UGH.

Ah...I wasn't familiar with the term

Hilda : sorry for blathering on

Dede when I did work-study at the TAMU library I worked in Bibliographic Records dept. We were moving the whole catalog onto a computer database so each card had to be entered

MaryTeodosio : GAK GAK GAK GAK

I wish you could come work for us and do that, Dede. Our catalogers stopped putting in subject headings and we just take whatever record someone else made.

The subject headings are really important for finding appropriate material. We're spending a LOT for a new catalog, but the subject headings are still going to suck.

Alanna : no, you don't want me to do it! This whole thing started because the dissertations/theses had no SH so that was my task. Basically I'm assigned the easiest SH known to man LOL

That's better than none!