Day 9

Monday, June 18th 9am-6pm

The main plan for today is to work on completing the list for geographic authorities. Once that is set, I plan to go back into the records and make changes as needed to the completed records. I am also hoping to run the subject headings I have used so far, past Elaine and Nancy to make sure we are all on the same page.

Other than that, I plan to spend the rest of my time working on creating records.

Subject Headings:

We will be using PHIN geographic subject headings for the records. These headings come with both a descriptive name (e.g. Indiana) and a numeric name (e.g. A0009896). I am still in the process of figuring out if the numbers are going to be used in addition to the descriptive name and if so, how this is going to be displayed within the record. I am also still having a difficult time deciding what subject headings to include on the issue level. I have Indiana and Descriptive Statistics for each issue. I have been adding other subject headings when more than one article on a specific topic appears or topic takes up more than one page of the issue. I am having trouble finding the happy medium between overly simplistic and including an excessive number of sujects.
Subject Heading Decision: It has been decided that we will use only the descriptive name in the records. We will, however, include the numeric name in the authority record. Records have been updated to reflect this new standard.

Copyright Statement: The copyright statement to be included in the records is as follows:

"Although these works may be freely accessible on the World Wide Web and may not include any statement about copyright, the U.S. Copyright Act nevertheless provides that such works are protected by copyright. Users must assume that works are protected by copyright until they learn otherwise."