Course Information
| Session |
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| Credits | 1.5 CEUs or 15 PDHs |
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| Registration dates | We accept registrations through the first week of classes, unless enrollment is full, and unless the class was canceled before it started due to low enrollment. |
Library of Congress Subject Headings & Genres
$250.00
Credits: 1.5 CEUs or 15 PDHs
This course focuses on Library of Congress Subject Headings and Genres from understanding the nature and types of subject headings and LC genre terms, when to use subject headings and genre terms including challenges in working with a controlled vocabulary with a long and complicated history. This class will focus on practical application of subject headings and genres with discussion of usage across metadata and cataloging and exploration of reparative language and its impact on subject headings and genres work. Students will be immersed in subject headings and genres, gaining a solid foundation in using these vocabularies across a variety of disciplines, including cataloging and metadata work in archives, digital humanities projects, and more.
Course Objectives and Goals
By the end of the course students will:
- Understand the terminology associated with Library of Congress subject headings and Genre terms and be able to identify types of headings.
- Be able to interpret an subject authority record to facilitate decision making in subject analysis and understand the basic principles for governing subject headings usage.
- Develop skills to construct appropriate Library of Congress Subject Headings and Genres.
- Explore the history and development of Library of Congress Subject Headings and Genres and how development and changes to subject headings and genres impact cataloging and metadata work including work towards reducing harmful language in data.
Course Description
This course focuses on Library of Congress Subject Headings and Genres from understanding the nature and types of subject headings and LC genre terms, when to use subject headings and genre terms including challenges in working with a controlled vocabulary with a long and complicated history. This class will focus on practical application of subject headings and genres with discussion of usage across metadata and cataloging and exploration of reparative language and its impact on subject headings and genres work. Students will be immersed in subject headings and genres, gaining a solid foundation in using these vocabularies across a variety of disciplines, including cataloging and metadata work in archives, digital humanities projects, and more.
Course Objectives and Goals
By the end of the course students will:
- Understand the terminology associated with Library of Congress subject headings and Genre terms and be able to identify types of headings.
- Be able to interpret an subject authority record to facilitate decision making in subject analysis and understand the basic principles for governing subject headings usage.
- Develop skills to construct appropriate Library of Congress Subject Headings and Genres.
- Explore the history and development of Library of Congress Subject Headings and Genres and how development and changes to subject headings and genres impact cataloging and metadata work including work towards reducing harmful language in data.
Robin Fay
Robin Fay is an experienced Cataloging and Metadata Librarian, trainer, and author working where metadata, cataloging, systems, and AI intersect. She has led cataloging, migration, and data quality projects across the GLAM landscape — federal agencies, multistate academic consortia including the Orbis Cascade Alliance and the University System of Georgia, and academic, community college, public library, and museum collections. Her practice spans MARC to BIBFRAME, system migrations, authority and entity management, controlled vocabularies, and linked data, including where AI tools help in metadata work and how to build human-AI collaborations for our work. She is the author of Semantic Web Technologies and Social Searching for Librarians and actively writes at linkedin and elsewhere. A frequent guest on WREK's Lost in the Stacks, she discusses metadata and semantic web topics through the lens of practical application. Connect with Robin via her linktr.ee/robinfay or at robinfay.net
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Brenton Green –
Thanks for the course! It was very well designed, engaging and very thorough for a short course. I appreciated the mix of resources and interactive activities provided each week to refresh my knowledge and skills. I can see why my coordinator recommends Library Juice Academy, having undertaken some courses himself.