For legal works, under the LCC, if it is the trial of an indvidual, the first heading will be the plaintiff if civil, and the defendant if criminal, and it will class as a trial in the numbers for each country for books on trials. Most books received by LC about the legal status of holocaust denials have been accounts of trials.
For the rare book on the subject as a legal topic (the law governing holocaust denial literature), LC would probably class it with the legal theory considered in that country (in the United States that would probably involve Freedom of Speech, but in some countries it would involve Defamation or laws governing race relations). A "--Law and legislation" heading should be proposed, for the subject, and I will do so next time I get an appropriate book. A search of the LC data base for "Holocaust denial" and the staff code sg? (or key words law trials legal) will retrieve the works. Aaron Aaron Wolfe Kuperman LC, Social Science Cataloging Division, Law Team This is NOT an official communication from LC Messages and opinions expressed on Hasafran are those of the individual author and are not necessarily endorsed by the Association of Jewish Libraries (AJL) =========================================================== Submissions for Ha-Safran, send to: Hasafran @ lists.acs.ohio-state.edu SUBscribing, SIGNOFF commands send to: Listproc @ lists.acs.ohio-state.edu Questions, problems, complaints, compliments;-) send to: galron.1 @ osu.edu Ha-Safran Archives: Current: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html History: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/history.html AJL HomePage http://www.JewishLibraries.org
