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Library of Congress subject headings : LC linked data service


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The Linked Data Service provides access to commonly found standards and vocabularies promulgated by the Library of Congress. Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH) has been actively maintained since 1898 to catalog materials held at the Library of Congress. By virtue of cooperative cataloging other libraries around the United States also use LCSH to provide subject access to their collections. In addition LCSH is used internationally, often in translation. LCSH in this service includes all Library of Congress Subject Headings, free-floating subdivisions (topical and form), Genre/Form headings, Children's (AC) headings, and validation strings* for which authority records have been created. This content is expanded beyond the print issue of LCSH (the 'red books') with inclusion of validation strings.

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