Cataloging: Using Medical Subject Headings (MeSH®) in Cataloging
Module 7—Names as Subjects
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Introduction
Module 1
Subject Analysis Principles
Module 2
Introduction to MeSH Headings (MeSH) and the MeSH Browser
Module 3
Selecting the Main Concept
Module 4
Use of Topical Subheadings in MeSH
Module 5
Geographic Headings
Module 6
Publication Types
Module 7
Names as Subjects
Module 8
Deconstructed Headings vs. Subject Strings
Review Questions
Using the MeSH Browser identify the appropriate terms to be added to the catalog record for these works.
| 1. True or False?
NLM catalogers can assign topical subheadings with corporate, personal name, or uniform title subject added entries. |
| 2. What would be the appropriate subject headings for a work titled "On supervision: psychoanalytic and Freudian analytic perspectives"? |
| 3. When can catalogers use corporate names found in the MeSH vocabulary? |
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4. True or False? Catalogers should routinely add a Publication Type of Congresses to personally authored works discussing a particular conference. |
| 5. What would be the appropriate subject headings for a work about the history of the US Public Health Service? |
| 6. What would be the appropriate subject headings for the following work: Progress report on the German Human Genome Project? |
