Roger Kohn
Mon, 04 Jan 2010 13:41:29 -0800
--- Yossi:
Happy New Year:
Thanks for bringing up the subject. It is confusing, IMHO.
I found in the index to SCM
Constructing headings with the free-floating term [ . . . ]
Region: H 362 (2-3), H 760
but memo H362 does not exist anymore in CatDesktop. I assume that it is
replaced by:
SHM: Subject Headings Manual — Geographic Headings and
Subdivisions — H 790 Areas Associated with Cities
who has:
3. City regions.
a. Construction of headings. Construct free-floating headings for
city regions by inserting the word Region between an established city
name and its geographic qualifier. Example:
151 ## $a Pensacola (Fla.)
651 #0 $a Pensacola Region (Fla.)
which still permit the practice as free-floater.
The 21st edition of _Free-floating subdivisions_ does not have a
free-floater for region, but has one for regions (plural form).
A colleague of mine, cd05, created sh 96000808 "Elot Region (Israel)"
in 1996, and there is a parallel class for it:
DS110.E47 Elot Region.
We may want to contact PSD directly to clarify the issue. I am inclined
to believe that the subject needs now to be proposed and is not a
free-floater anymore. But you don't have to take my word for it... (and
you should not!)
Hope this helps,
- r.
Roger Kohn
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>>> Joseph Galron-Goldschlaeger <galro...@osu.edu> 1/4/2010 3:27:21 PM
>>>
Question: Is it Kosher to add "Region" to any geographic place name?
For example: I have a book that deals with military camps around Beer
Sheva.
Can I use "Bersheba Region (Israel)"? Do I need to establish the
heading in
the Subject Authority File?
Yossi
Joseph (Yossi) Galron-Goldschlaeger
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