Ted,
Recently I was re-reading Thomas Mann's famed commentary for the LC
"Future of bibliographic control", and he emphasizes that the subject
analysis for books refers to the overall scope of the book. I could see
a value for "overall scope" subject headings, and "also has something
about" subject headings -- coded differently so you could search at
different levels. Mann contracts "overall scope" with keyword searching,
but as you show below, there could be levels in between those two that
are useful.
kc
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> Now, when I first started out as a cataloger, I remember being told that
> you shouldn't put a heading on unless at least a third of the book is
> about that topic. And in this case, it's only one chapter. So that is
> probably contrary to that rule. But this subject was interesting to me,
> and I noticed it's a heading ("King's Evil") that was established by the
> National Library of Medicine pretty recently. Also, this is the first
> time it's been used in our database.
>
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