PCC Resources for
October 3, 2007
Present from CPSO: L. El-Hoshy, R. Goudreau, D. Thompson, W. Robboy, J. Young
Classification
Changes were made as indicated on the approved list.
Subject Headings
Ecological carrying capacity
This heading was proposed as "Carrying capacity." The McGraw-Hill dictionary of scientific and technical terms provides separate definitions of this concept from the fields of ecology and electricity. It could also refer to an attribute of containers or transportation infrastructure. In situations in which a term or phrase is ambiguous or has more than one dictionary definition, it is necessary to modify it to indicate which meaning the heading is intended to represent in LCSH. Instruction sheet H 357 of the Subject Cataloging Manual: Subject Headings covers the addition of parenthetical qualifiers to headings but also states that in many situations a parenthetical qualifier can be avoided by using an adjectival qualifier to create a phrase heading instead. In this case, because the GEMET thesaurus of the European Environmental Agency has the heading Ecological carrying capacity and that phrase may be found in thousands of online documents, the proposal was revised to that form with a UF reference Carrying capacity (Ecology).
MARC Language Code List
The following additions have been made to the 2003 edition of the MARC Code List for Languages:
ADD:
Awabakal [aus]
Cholon [sai]
