11/15/2011
Start time: 10:30
End time: 6:30
Hours Worked: 8
Total Hours: 15.5
I went back to Tech Services today to get the necessary information to compile data that I'm going to use for my paper. After getting all the information and double-checking to make sure it was correct, I used my blog and my notes to compile the data of how often Wikipedia was helpful in subject cataloging. I also thought about how I was going to include the fact that Lilly and Josh were also used as resources to help me find subject headings as well as other websites.
Tuesday, November 15, 2011
Monday, November 14, 2011
Offsite Day 1
11/14/2011
Start time: 10:30
End time: 6:00
Hours Worked: 7.5
Total Hours: 7.5
I worked on some paperwork that I needed to finish. I also started searching for articles that I needed to read. I read a few and also started brain storming on how I wanted to structure my paper.
Start time: 10:30
End time: 6:00
Hours Worked: 7.5
Total Hours: 7.5
I worked on some paperwork that I needed to finish. I also started searching for articles that I needed to read. I read a few and also started brain storming on how I wanted to structure my paper.
Friday, November 4, 2011
Day 20, Last Official Day
Day 20
11/04/2011
Start time: 8:00
End time: 12:00
Hours Worked: 4
Total Hours: 150!
The first thing I cataloged today was an political science honor's paper titled Strategic Nonviolence and Humor: Their Synergy and Its Limitations: A Case Study of Nonviolent Struggle led by Serbia’s Otpor by Anne M. Lucas. It was a fascinating piece about the use of humor by the Serbian nonviolent resistance group Otpor. I thought the paper was primarily about about nonviolent resistance and humor, but it was also about things like political power as well. I decided to create a subject heading for Otpor because the work was about their actions, and I think people would be happy to find this if they were searching for things about Otpor. I also decided to subdivide "Otpor" by "Humor" to show that it is about their use of humor. The concept of nonviolent resistance comes up with either the headings "Nonviolence" or "Passive resistance." I had to look up "Passive resistance" in Wikipedia to determine if it was the same thing as nonviolent resistance, and I found out that it was. I decided to create the subject heading "Passive resistance--Serbia--Humor" to show that it was about the humor of the passive resistance in Serbia. I used the call number for passive resistance. Wikipedia was quite helpful. Here are my subject headings in MARC format.
610 20 Otpor (Organization : Serbia) ǂx Humor.
650 0 Passive resistance ǂz Serbia ǂx Humor.
Sevim suggested that I remove the "Humor" subject heading for both subject headings I had and add the "Serbian wit and humor" subject heading. So I did that. Here is the MARC format of the final headings:
610 20 Otpor (Organization : Serbia)
650 0 Passive resistance ǂz Serbia.
650 0 Serbian wit and humor.
The second honor's paper that I cataloged today was a chemistry one titled Thermodynamic and Morphological Properties of Ceramide-1-Phosphate Model Monolayer Systems by Alexandra Hill. I had a hard time determining what exactly this paper was about besides Ceramide-1-Phosphates because of my lack of chemistry knowledge. I attempted to use Wikipedia to help me understand some of the concepts, but there were not many articles that matched what I was looking for. I did get a little information from there though. Searching for Ceramide-1-Phosphates lead me to the subject heading "Ceramides" which I used Wikipedia and the Lipid Library (http://lipidlibrary.aocs.org/lipids/cer-1-p/index.htm) to help determine that this was the heading that I wanted to use. Other concepts that I tried to term into subject headings were monolayer phase behavior, thermodynamic properties, and morphological properties. None of these had really good matches, but after searching for monolayer phase behavior, I searched for simply phase behavior which lead me to the subject heading "Phase transformations (Statistical physics)." I wasn't sure if this heading was correct, so I performed a WorldCat search with it and found an article that mentioned phase behavior in the abstract. That was good enough for me to put it as a subject heading. I found it really hard to find any other subject headings for this paper. Here are my subject headings in MARC format:
650 0 Ceramides.
650 0 Phase transformations (Statistical physics)
Sevim wasn't sure about the "Phase transformations (Statistical phyics)" subject heading. After doing a WorldCat search, she didn't think it should remain a subject heading, so I removed it. Here is the MARC format of my final subject headings:
650 0 Ceramides.
The last record I cataloged for my official practicum hours was an honor's paper titled Is the Fixation on “Healthy” Unhealthy? A Study on Orthorexia Nervosa by Kelsey M. Robinson. This paper was a study about a proposed eating disorder called orthorexia nervosa which is an obsession with eating healthy. Orthorexia nervosa was, unsurprisingly, not in LCSH, so I chose the subject heading "Eating disorders" instead. I wanted to find a subject heading that could convey the idea of obsession with eating healthy, but I couldn't find anything like that. The paper also mentions obsessive-compulsive disorder, but not really enough to warrant a subject heading. I didn't really need Wikipedia for this one. Here are the subject headings in MARC format:
650 0 Eating disorders.
11/04/2011
Start time: 8:00
End time: 12:00
Hours Worked: 4
Total Hours: 150!
The first thing I cataloged today was an political science honor's paper titled Strategic Nonviolence and Humor: Their Synergy and Its Limitations: A Case Study of Nonviolent Struggle led by Serbia’s Otpor by Anne M. Lucas. It was a fascinating piece about the use of humor by the Serbian nonviolent resistance group Otpor. I thought the paper was primarily about about nonviolent resistance and humor, but it was also about things like political power as well. I decided to create a subject heading for Otpor because the work was about their actions, and I think people would be happy to find this if they were searching for things about Otpor. I also decided to subdivide "Otpor" by "Humor" to show that it is about their use of humor. The concept of nonviolent resistance comes up with either the headings "Nonviolence" or "Passive resistance." I had to look up "Passive resistance" in Wikipedia to determine if it was the same thing as nonviolent resistance, and I found out that it was. I decided to create the subject heading "Passive resistance--Serbia--Humor" to show that it was about the humor of the passive resistance in Serbia. I used the call number for passive resistance. Wikipedia was quite helpful. Here are my subject headings in MARC format.
610 20 Otpor (Organization : Serbia) ǂx Humor.
650 0 Passive resistance ǂz Serbia ǂx Humor.
Sevim suggested that I remove the "Humor" subject heading for both subject headings I had and add the "Serbian wit and humor" subject heading. So I did that. Here is the MARC format of the final headings:
610 20 Otpor (Organization : Serbia)
650 0 Passive resistance ǂz Serbia.
650 0 Serbian wit and humor.
The second honor's paper that I cataloged today was a chemistry one titled Thermodynamic and Morphological Properties of Ceramide-1-Phosphate Model Monolayer Systems by Alexandra Hill. I had a hard time determining what exactly this paper was about besides Ceramide-1-Phosphates because of my lack of chemistry knowledge. I attempted to use Wikipedia to help me understand some of the concepts, but there were not many articles that matched what I was looking for. I did get a little information from there though. Searching for Ceramide-1-Phosphates lead me to the subject heading "Ceramides" which I used Wikipedia and the Lipid Library (http://lipidlibrary.aocs.org/lipids/cer-1-p/index.htm) to help determine that this was the heading that I wanted to use. Other concepts that I tried to term into subject headings were monolayer phase behavior, thermodynamic properties, and morphological properties. None of these had really good matches, but after searching for monolayer phase behavior, I searched for simply phase behavior which lead me to the subject heading "Phase transformations (Statistical physics)." I wasn't sure if this heading was correct, so I performed a WorldCat search with it and found an article that mentioned phase behavior in the abstract. That was good enough for me to put it as a subject heading. I found it really hard to find any other subject headings for this paper. Here are my subject headings in MARC format:
650 0 Ceramides.
650 0 Phase transformations (Statistical physics)
Sevim wasn't sure about the "Phase transformations (Statistical phyics)" subject heading. After doing a WorldCat search, she didn't think it should remain a subject heading, so I removed it. Here is the MARC format of my final subject headings:
650 0 Ceramides.
The last record I cataloged for my official practicum hours was an honor's paper titled Is the Fixation on “Healthy” Unhealthy? A Study on Orthorexia Nervosa by Kelsey M. Robinson. This paper was a study about a proposed eating disorder called orthorexia nervosa which is an obsession with eating healthy. Orthorexia nervosa was, unsurprisingly, not in LCSH, so I chose the subject heading "Eating disorders" instead. I wanted to find a subject heading that could convey the idea of obsession with eating healthy, but I couldn't find anything like that. The paper also mentions obsessive-compulsive disorder, but not really enough to warrant a subject heading. I didn't really need Wikipedia for this one. Here are the subject headings in MARC format:
650 0 Eating disorders.
Tuesday, November 1, 2011
Day 19
Day 19
11/01/2011
Start time: 8:00
[1 Hour Lunch]
End time: 5:00
Hours Worked: 8
Total Hours: 146
On Friday I started doing the descriptive cataloging for my first batch of honor's papers which is basically a bachelor's version of a thesis. I had nine different honor's papers, and they were all in different areas of study. The subject areas covered in these honor's papers are: art, theatre, nursing, design theory (school of art), political science, chemistry, psychology, film, and geology. Only two of the nine did their forms incorrectly and need NARs.
The first honor's paper I subject cataloged today was a theater one titled THE SHOW IS IN THE DETAILS: LEARNING ABOUT A STUDENT DIRECTOR’S PROCESS FROM THE INSIDE by Erin McManus. The author discusses learning her experiences of discovering her process for director and describes the process of three professional directors. This honor's paper was interesting, and I sent a copy to my friend Tim because he's into theater and thought he would be interested. The first concepts I thought of for this were theater directing and something to do with concept and processs. Unfortunately I could not find any subject headings for the ideas of concept and process. The concept of theater directing was translated into "Theater--Production and direction" in LCSH. I also thought I should add the heading "Theatrical producers and directors" because the paper is also about them. Wikipedia was not needed. Here are the subject headings that I ended up with:
650 0 Theater ǂx Production and direction.
650 0 Theatrical producers and directors.
Sevim suggested that I remove "Theatrical producers and directors" unless I thought it should really be on there. I couldn't think of a good enough reason to keep it on there. Here are my final subject headings in MARC:
650 0 Theater ǂx Production and direction.
The second honor's paper I cataloged was an art one titled Innate Materiality by April Bachtel. I thought her painting was pretty cool. She does abstract painting and relief painting. Relief painting is when you put enough paint on the canvas so that it causes the painting to look three dimensional and stick out. I used wikipedia to get more information about both abstract painting and relief painting, but both of those were keywords assigned by the author and were easy to find in LCSH. Subject headings were relatively easy for this one. I chose three different ones which were: "Bachtel, April--Exhibitions," "Painting, Abstract--United States--21st century--Exhibitions," and "Relief (Art)--United States--21st century--Exhibitions." The difficult part of this paper was assigning the call number. I had a hard time finding which call number to use because the number for an individual artist for painting is not as clearly laid out as it is for ceramic sculptures. I found the call number ND237.B334 ǂb A4 2011 by searching for various recent American artists in OhioLINK and noticing that they all had the same number just with a different cutter. This is how I made my decision. The artists I looked for were Andy Warhol and Jacob Collins. Here are my subject headings in MARC form:
600 10 Bachtel, April ǂv Exhibitions.
650 0 Painting, Abstract ǂz United States ǂy 21st century ǂv Exhibitions.
650 0 Relief (Art) ǂz United States ǂy 21st century ǂv Exhibitions
Sevim liked my subject headings but wasn't sure about my call number at first. After some investigation, she accept it.
The third honor's paper that I cataloged was a nursing one titled Lived Experiences of Nurses: Nurse Characteristics by Clinical Specialty by Rebecca J. Barreca. This paper was really just about the experiences of nine different nurses each with a different specialty. I had a hard time coming up with subject headings for this one because the topic is so broad. I ended up using the subject headings "Nursing--Psychological aspects" and "Nursing specialties--Psychological aspects" because I felt that the paper was about the psychological aspects of both nursing and its specialties. I also used the field "Nurses--Attitudes" because I felt that paper is about what nurses think and feel. That was also the subject heading that got me the closest to dealing with their experiences. I based the call number on "Nursing--Psychological aspects." I didn't need Wikipedia for this paper. Here is the MARC format of the subject headings I chose:
650 0Nursing ǂx Psychological aspects.
650 0Nursing specialties ǂx Psychological aspects.
650 0Nurses ǂx Attitudes.
Sevim suggested that I remove "Nursing--Psychological aspects" because the paper was about nursing specialties first and foremost, so I did. Here are the final headings in MARC format:
650 0 Nursing specialties ǂx Psychological aspects.
650 0 Nurses ǂx Attitudes.
The third honor's paper that I cataloged today is a bizarre fine arts one titled Notes between Yesterday and Tomorrow: Queering Perceptions toward Homotopia by Nicolas Joyce. So after reading basically the whole paper, I still don't really have an idea of what it's about. I guess it's about queer theory and gender identity. It seems like from what I read about queer theory on Wikipedia that it's a good bet that this paper is about it, particularly because queer theory comes out of post-structuralism and radical deconstruction which often both have material that is almost unreadable. Anyways, I choose the subject headings "Queer theory" and "Gender identity." I chose my call number based on queer theory. The number dealt with philosophy and aestetics which seemed appropriate. Here's the MARC format of my subject headings:
650 0 Queer theory.
650 0 Gender identity.
Sevim suggested I remove "Gender identity" and change the call number, so I did. Here are the final headings in MARC format:
650 0 Queer theory.
11/01/2011
Start time: 8:00
[1 Hour Lunch]
End time: 5:00
Hours Worked: 8
Total Hours: 146
On Friday I started doing the descriptive cataloging for my first batch of honor's papers which is basically a bachelor's version of a thesis. I had nine different honor's papers, and they were all in different areas of study. The subject areas covered in these honor's papers are: art, theatre, nursing, design theory (school of art), political science, chemistry, psychology, film, and geology. Only two of the nine did their forms incorrectly and need NARs.
The first honor's paper I subject cataloged today was a theater one titled THE SHOW IS IN THE DETAILS: LEARNING ABOUT A STUDENT DIRECTOR’S PROCESS FROM THE INSIDE by Erin McManus. The author discusses learning her experiences of discovering her process for director and describes the process of three professional directors. This honor's paper was interesting, and I sent a copy to my friend Tim because he's into theater and thought he would be interested. The first concepts I thought of for this were theater directing and something to do with concept and processs. Unfortunately I could not find any subject headings for the ideas of concept and process. The concept of theater directing was translated into "Theater--Production and direction" in LCSH. I also thought I should add the heading "Theatrical producers and directors" because the paper is also about them. Wikipedia was not needed. Here are the subject headings that I ended up with:
650 0 Theater ǂx Production and direction.
650 0 Theatrical producers and directors.
Sevim suggested that I remove "Theatrical producers and directors" unless I thought it should really be on there. I couldn't think of a good enough reason to keep it on there. Here are my final subject headings in MARC:
650 0 Theater ǂx Production and direction.
The second honor's paper I cataloged was an art one titled Innate Materiality by April Bachtel. I thought her painting was pretty cool. She does abstract painting and relief painting. Relief painting is when you put enough paint on the canvas so that it causes the painting to look three dimensional and stick out. I used wikipedia to get more information about both abstract painting and relief painting, but both of those were keywords assigned by the author and were easy to find in LCSH. Subject headings were relatively easy for this one. I chose three different ones which were: "Bachtel, April--Exhibitions," "Painting, Abstract--United States--21st century--Exhibitions," and "Relief (Art)--United States--21st century--Exhibitions." The difficult part of this paper was assigning the call number. I had a hard time finding which call number to use because the number for an individual artist for painting is not as clearly laid out as it is for ceramic sculptures. I found the call number ND237.B334 ǂb A4 2011 by searching for various recent American artists in OhioLINK and noticing that they all had the same number just with a different cutter. This is how I made my decision. The artists I looked for were Andy Warhol and Jacob Collins. Here are my subject headings in MARC form:
600 10 Bachtel, April ǂv Exhibitions.
650 0 Painting, Abstract ǂz United States ǂy 21st century ǂv Exhibitions.
650 0 Relief (Art) ǂz United States ǂy 21st century ǂv Exhibitions
Sevim liked my subject headings but wasn't sure about my call number at first. After some investigation, she accept it.
The third honor's paper that I cataloged was a nursing one titled Lived Experiences of Nurses: Nurse Characteristics by Clinical Specialty by Rebecca J. Barreca. This paper was really just about the experiences of nine different nurses each with a different specialty. I had a hard time coming up with subject headings for this one because the topic is so broad. I ended up using the subject headings "Nursing--Psychological aspects" and "Nursing specialties--Psychological aspects" because I felt that the paper was about the psychological aspects of both nursing and its specialties. I also used the field "Nurses--Attitudes" because I felt that paper is about what nurses think and feel. That was also the subject heading that got me the closest to dealing with their experiences. I based the call number on "Nursing--Psychological aspects." I didn't need Wikipedia for this paper. Here is the MARC format of the subject headings I chose:
650 0Nursing ǂx Psychological aspects.
650 0Nursing specialties ǂx Psychological aspects.
650 0Nurses ǂx Attitudes.
Sevim suggested that I remove "Nursing--Psychological aspects" because the paper was about nursing specialties first and foremost, so I did. Here are the final headings in MARC format:
650 0 Nursing specialties ǂx Psychological aspects.
650 0 Nurses ǂx Attitudes.
The third honor's paper that I cataloged today is a bizarre fine arts one titled Notes between Yesterday and Tomorrow: Queering Perceptions toward Homotopia by Nicolas Joyce. So after reading basically the whole paper, I still don't really have an idea of what it's about. I guess it's about queer theory and gender identity. It seems like from what I read about queer theory on Wikipedia that it's a good bet that this paper is about it, particularly because queer theory comes out of post-structuralism and radical deconstruction which often both have material that is almost unreadable. Anyways, I choose the subject headings "Queer theory" and "Gender identity." I chose my call number based on queer theory. The number dealt with philosophy and aestetics which seemed appropriate. Here's the MARC format of my subject headings:
650 0 Queer theory.
650 0 Gender identity.
Sevim suggested I remove "Gender identity" and change the call number, so I did. Here are the final headings in MARC format:
650 0 Queer theory.
Friday, October 28, 2011
Day 18
Day 18
10/28/2011
Start time: 8:00
End time: 12:00
Hours Worked: 4
Total Hours: 138
Today I will be only working a half day and working on mainly ETDs. The first ETD I worked on is the last one of my third batch. It's a teaching, learning, and curriculum studies dissertation titled Young Children Conceptualize the Relationships Among Positive and Negative Numbers and Zero by Peggy D. Manchester. The dissertation is about how young children think about negative numbers and how they have intiutions about them. I think this is part of a movement to teach children about negative numbers at a younger age when they might think about it more intuitively. I had a hard time thinking up subject headings for this because there wasn't a subject heading for mathematics and children. I felt that the subdivision "Study and teaching (Primary)" didn't really convey what the dissertation was about. I ended up thinking of the headings "Mathematics--Study and teaching (Primary)" and "Numbers, Negative--Study and teaching (Primary)," but I wasn't completely satisfied with these headings. So, I did a search on WorldCat and it lead me to the heading "Number concept in children" which fits perfectly. I also found a record that added the subdivision "Psychological aspects" to the study and teaching headings. I think this set of subject headings is much better at conveying what this dissertation is about. My call number was based on "Number concept in children." My suject headings are:
650 0 Number concept in children.
650 0 Numbers, Negative ǂx Study and teaching (Primary) ǂx Psychological aspects.
650 0 Mathematics ǂx Study and teaching (Primary) ǂx Psychological aspects.
Sevim liked what I had but wanted me to change Primary to Elementary.
10/28/2011
Start time: 8:00
End time: 12:00
Hours Worked: 4
Total Hours: 138
Today I will be only working a half day and working on mainly ETDs. The first ETD I worked on is the last one of my third batch. It's a teaching, learning, and curriculum studies dissertation titled Young Children Conceptualize the Relationships Among Positive and Negative Numbers and Zero by Peggy D. Manchester. The dissertation is about how young children think about negative numbers and how they have intiutions about them. I think this is part of a movement to teach children about negative numbers at a younger age when they might think about it more intuitively. I had a hard time thinking up subject headings for this because there wasn't a subject heading for mathematics and children. I felt that the subdivision "Study and teaching (Primary)" didn't really convey what the dissertation was about. I ended up thinking of the headings "Mathematics--Study and teaching (Primary)" and "Numbers, Negative--Study and teaching (Primary)," but I wasn't completely satisfied with these headings. So, I did a search on WorldCat and it lead me to the heading "Number concept in children" which fits perfectly. I also found a record that added the subdivision "Psychological aspects" to the study and teaching headings. I think this set of subject headings is much better at conveying what this dissertation is about. My call number was based on "Number concept in children." My suject headings are:
650 0 Number concept in children.
650 0 Numbers, Negative ǂx Study and teaching (Primary) ǂx Psychological aspects.
650 0 Mathematics ǂx Study and teaching (Primary) ǂx Psychological aspects.
Sevim liked what I had but wanted me to change Primary to Elementary.
Tuesday, October 25, 2011
Day 17, Mostly Microfilm
Day 17
10/25/2011
Start time: 8:00
[1 Hour Lunch]
End time: 5:00
Hours Worked: 8
Total Hours: 134
10/25/2011
Start time: 8:00
[1 Hour Lunch]
End time: 5:00
Hours Worked: 8
Total Hours: 134
Most of my day involved cataloging microfilm TDs. I started the day by checking the records that I worked on Friday morning. Sevim thought I did pretty good work, but there were some changes that I had to make. I replaced the OCLC records of the microfilm TDs that had OCLC records and put them into KentLINK as well. For the original record I did on Friday, I just uploaded to both OCLC and KentLINK.
I also worked on five new microfilm TDs. Three had regular records that could be mostly copied, one had a German language record that I could derive some information for but had to create a new record for, and thel last one didn't have a record in OCLC, so I had to create an original record. One of the three that had a record in OCLC had some major errors and it looked like it had been merged with a photocopy record. I don't have as much detail on the microfilm TDs because I don't keep as good records for those as I do for the ETDs. Oh well.
The purely original microfilm TD that I worked on today was titled The selection and training of salesmen for the machine tools industry by James D. Robenstine. The title basically said what this TD was about. I chose two subject headings: "Sales personel--Training of" and "Machine-tool industry." I chose the call number HF5439.8. Here's the way my subject headings look in Connexion:
650 0 Sales personnel ǂx Training of.
650 0 Machine-tool industry.
Friday, October 21, 2011
Day 16
Day 16
10/21/2011
Start time: 8:00
[1 Hour Lunch]
End time: 5:00
Hours Worked: 8
Total Hours: 126
10/21/2011
Start time: 8:00
[1 Hour Lunch]
End time: 5:00
Hours Worked: 8
Total Hours: 126
Today I started with cataloging five microfilm theses and dissertations. Four of the microfilm TDs had OCLC records which I merely had to go and correct any errors. The other one did not have a record in OCLC, so I had to do completely original cataloging for it. This microfilm TD was an education thesis titled Survey of methods and materials in the teaching of transcription in public secondary schools by Ethel Luella Mart. Because doing in depth reading on the microfilm reading is difficult, I only read a couple of pages to determine what the subject headings were. Both the title and those first couple of pages both gave me the idea that this thesis was simply about teaching transcription skills in secondary schools, so I used the subject heading "Transcription--Study and teaching (Secondary)." It was pretty simple. Everything else was pretty straightforward. Here are the subject headings:
650 0 Transcription ǂx Study and teaching (Secondary)
Sevim liked both my subject heading and my call number.
After finishing with the microfilm records, I started cataloging some ETDs. The first ETD I cataloged today was a teaching, learning, and curriculum studies dissertation titled Skype™: A Portal Into the 21st Century in a Secondary Spanish Classroom by Colleen A. Blaurock. This thesis was a study that consisted of pairing up Non-Native Speakers (NNSs) with Native Speakers (NSs) over Skype to help the NNS learn the language. This study researched students who were learning Spanish, but it could easily applied to other languages. I didn't have a hard time of thinking of analyzing the concepts of this dissertation, but I did have a little difficulty chosing which subject headings I wanted. I tried to find a subject heading for foreign language educatin, but there was not a heading for that. Next, I tried to find a heading for second language education and found "Second language acquisition." However this heading is only used for sociological and psychological aspects of learning a second language rather than just teaching and learning a second language. I decided to use this heading because the dissertation talks is also about the experiences of the students who participated in the study. To convey the educational aspect, I chose "Language and languages--Study and teaching (Secondary)." There were many different methods in the narrower topics of that heading, and Wikipedia and a Google search helped me learn a little more about them so I could rule them out. I also wanted to have a heading to bring out the technology aspect of this dissertation. There were a few options. The first one I found was "Computer assisted instruction," but this heading is more for when automated computer applications instruct people. I also found "Educational technology" which I decided to use because the article is about using Skype as an educational technology. The call number I chose was P53.6 which means that it's about the study and teaching of oral communication of languages. I'm not 100% happy with this number and might change it to the general works number. Here are my subject headings:
650 0 Language and languages ǂx Study and teaching (Secondary).
650 0 Second language acquisition.
650 0 Educational technology.
Sevim liked the subject headings I had, but she suggested that I created a subject heading for the concept of computer mediated communication. The subject heading for that concept is "Telematics." I also changed the call number to P53.855 to reflect that it's about technological innovation rather than oral communication. Here are the final subject headings:
650 0Language and languages ǂx Study and teaching (Secondary)
650 0Second language acquisition.
650 0Telematics.
650 0Educational technology.
The second ETD that I cataloged was a Foundations, Leadership, and Administration dissertation titled The Third Culture Kid (TCK) Experience: Adult-TCKS’ Reflections On Their Multicultural Childhood, Its Impact On Student-Teacher Relationships In U.S. Classrooms And Their Recommendations For Multicultural Teacher Education In The United States by Gretchen L. Espinetti. This dissertation is about the Third Culture Kid (TCK) and how adult ones can help teachers with multicultural education. TCKs are children who are raised in a different culture than their parents and move back to their parent's country of origin at some point. The dissertation also talks about teacher-student relationships. This one was tough because a lot of the concepts in the book had no subject headings associated with them, so I had a hard time choosing subject headings. Wikipedia was helpful in me gaining an understanding of some of the concepts presented like TCK, but it wasn't helpful in choosing any subject headings. I couldn't find a heading that had anything to do with TCK or any iteration of the concept like multicultural children, trans-cultural children, and cross-cultural children. None of them were in LCSH. So I had to focus on other aspects of the work. I decided to use the heading "Multicultural education--United States" since multicultural education is mentioned in the title, abstracted, and the work itself. And since it talks about how TCKs can help multicultural teacher education, I decided on the subject heading "Teachers--Training of--United States." The relationships between TCKs and their teachers is also discussed in the dissertation, so I decided to use the heading "Teacher-student relationships--United States" based on that. I performed a WorldCat search on TCKs to find my last heading which is "American students--Foreign influences." I decided to use that subject heading because I found it is the best way to give a heading to the concept of TCK. I don't know if it'll work or not, but I thought I'd give it a try. Here are my subject headings:
650 0Multicultural education ǂz United States.
650 0American students ǂx Foreign influences.
650 0Teachers ǂx Training of ǂz United States.
650 0Teacher-student relationships ǂz United States.
Sevim really liked this ETD and wanted to read it. She liked the subject headings, but she thought that I should take out the "Teachers--Training of--United States" because the paper wasn't about that and only gave reccommendations for it. She also said that I need to change the call number slightly to show that it's about the United States. Here are the final subject headings:
650 0Multicultural education ǂz United States.
650 0American students ǂx Foreign influences.
650 0Teacher-student relationships ǂz United States.
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