No. 144, August 2005 | National Diet Library

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No. 144, August 2005

National Diet Library List of Subject Headings
(FY2004 edition) available on the website

The National Diet Library List of Subject Headings (NDLSH) is applied to the catalogs compiled by the NDL. It is under revision now and the data accumulated up to March 2005 is available on the NDL website as the FY2004 edition.

http://www.ndl.go.jp/jp/library/data/ndl_ndlsh.html (Japanese only)

Major revisions compared with the 5th edition (1991) are the following:

added new headings
introduced "see also" reference
reviewed the way to apply subject subdivisions
enhanced scope notes
introduced class numbers of the Nippon Decimal Classification (NDC) newly revised 9th edition.

The NDL gathered opinions on the working edition of the NDLSH from librarians from October to December 2004. The FY2004 edition reflects them as much as possible.

(Bibliographic Control Division, Bibliography Department)

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