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Issue 124

Term 1 2023

New and revised subject headings

By Renate Beilharz

Subject headings SCIS Cataloguing Library catalogues

SCIS Catalogue Content Manager Renate Beilharz updates you on new and revised subject headings that have been recently approved by the SCIS Standards Committee.

The following changes to the SCIS Subject Headings List were approved by the SCIS Standards Committee November 2021 – October 2022. For more information on subject headings and your library, see our blog article.

New Headings

Academic writing

  • Scope note: Use for works on nonfiction as part of academic work.
  • UF Scholarly writing
  • BT Writing (Authorship)
  • RT Essay
  • RT Report writing
  • RT Theses

Assassins

  • Scope note: Use for works on someone who undertakes to murder from political or religious fanaticism or for a reward.
  • UF Contract killers
  • RT Assassination
  • BT Murderers

Autism Spectrum Disorders

  • BT Neurodiversity
  • UF ASD
  • UF Asperger’s syndrome
  • UF Autism
  • UF Childhood disintegrative disorder
  • UF Pervasive developmental disorders
  • UF Rett’s disorder
  • UF Rett syndrome
  • UF Autistic persons

Business writing

  • Scope note: Use for works of, or about, writing that is used for communication in a professional setting.
  • BT Writing (Authorship)
  • NT Business letters
  • RT Report writing

Consent

  • Scope note: Use for works on the expressed agreement between persons or lack thereof to engage in an activity.
  • UF Sexual consent
  • BT Human relations
  • RT Criminal law
  • RT Dating (Social)
  • RT Sexual behaviour

Digital literacy

  • Scope note: Use for works on the ability to access, understand and safely use the capabilities and applications of a range of technologies to find information, solve problems or complete tasks. For works on the ability to use and understand computers use Computer literacy.
  • UF Literacy, Digital
  • BT Education
  • BT Information science
  • NT Computer literacy
  • RT Information literacy
  • RT Information skills
  • RT Information technology

Entrepreneurship

  • Scope note: Use for works on the process of creating new businesses and/or individuals who have engaged in this process.
  • UF Entrepreneurs
  • UF Start-ups
  • UF Startups
  • BT Business

Farmers

  • BT Farms
  • RT Agricultural workers
  • RT Farm life

Murderers

  • UF Killers
  • RT Murder
  • NT Assassins
  • BT Criminals

Neurodiversity

Scope note: Use for works on the range of differences in human brain function across a population, causing variations in learning, mood, attention, sociability and other mental functions.

  • NT Autism spectrum disorders
  • NT Dyslexia
  • RT Learning disabilities
  • BT Psychology

Vaping

  • UF E-cigarettes
  • UF Electronic cigarettes
  • BT Substance abuse

New 'see' references

  • Asperger’s syndrome see Autism spectrum disorders
  • Autism see Autism spectrum disorders
  • E-cigarettes see Vaping
  • Electronic cigarettes see Vaping
  • Entrepreneurs see Entrepreneurship
  • Pervasive developmental disorders see Autism spectrum disorders
  • Sexual consent see Consent
  • Start-ups see Entrepreneurship
  • Startups see Entrepreneurship

Revised subject headings

Scope note: Use for works on the ability to use and understand computers. For works on the ability to access, understand and safely use the capabilities and applications of a range of technologies to find information, solve problems or complete tasks, use Digital literacy.

The new SCIS subject headings will be included in the SCIS Authority update in March.

 

Renate Beilharz

SCIS Catalogue Content Manager

Education Services Australia

Renate has worked for SCIS since 2018. A qualified teacher librarian, Renate worked in secondary school libraries for 20 years before teaching library and information services at Box Hill TAFE. She is passionate about ensuring that schools receive the quality data needed to empower information discovery for students.