Subject Headings For Children

Provides a listing of subject headings applied by the Library of Congress to children's materials, each followed by the most appropriate classifiction number(s), based on the Abridged Dewey Decimal Classification, Edition 13; and includes a keyword index.

Presents suggested headings appropriate for use in the catalogs of small and medium-sized libraries, and provides patterns and instructions for adding new headings as they are required. The seventeenth edition features a revision of headings for the native peoples of the Western Hemisphere, as well as many new subdivisions.

Subject Guide to Children's Books In Print allows the user to track down children's and young adult titles on every subject imaginable and locate current topics that are capturing the interest of the nation's young readers.

Explains the unique ways that children look for information and how to approach cataloging accordingly, including a discussion of AACR2, MARC, nonprint materials, and Library of Congress children's headings.