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Re: Question



I tried looking up the entry for the Kent State's May 4, but LC's catalogue
is undergoing heavy (or whatever, I can't get in just now...), just to look
for a model to use for example.

My concerns with the WTC as a main entry is it doesn't take into account
the PA and VA incidents (yes, the Pentagon is really in VA, only a die-hard
Virginian like me could be petty about that, my apologies for being one).
Of course, the issue of Main entry is practically obselete these days when
one considers that multiple access points and cross references make main
entry moot.  But formality's sake, I prefer an approach that takes a common
denominator, such as the date.  (United States--Terrorist attacks--
September 11, 2001, or a similar construction).

But just to exemplify how arbitrary subject headings can sometimes be, Nat
Turner's Rebellion is not a Library of Congress Subject Heading.  You have
to know it's Southampton Insurrection, 1831.  The key is to make sure it's
cross referenced _fully_ (in as many ways as you can think).

I'm stopping before I go into a full-length cataloguing essay and bore
everyone to tears!

Holly Hodges
Virginia

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