Subject Access to Films & Videos

Having a robust metadata strategy for digital films and videos will enable the discovery, transport, and reuse of these materials across disparate repository and media management systems. What does this suggest? That metadata for video media must be both actionable and designed for use on a networked computer.

The first edition of Subject Access to Films & Videos has been effectively used by catalogers for years, but today's library features substantially more headings, and an enhanced vision of what may be considered "adequate subject access" is now available.

This book provides a recently updated compilation of standard Library of Congress subject headings and genre term headings directly related to film and video materials, along with guidance in how they should be applied. Subject Access to Films & Videos: Second Edition aids catalogers by providing both the principles of subject analysis as they apply to films and videos, and the headings that relate directly to these materials. Dedicated chapters on metadata for film and video materials and developing collections of films and videos are included. Additionally, this guide gathers a subset of headings relating directly to films and videos, simplifying the task of finding the descriptors catalogers want to assign.

Sheila S. Intner is professor emerita at Simmons Graduate School of Library and Information Science, Boston, MA, and teaches cataloging and classification for Rutgers University's School of Communication and Information. She was the founding director of the MLIS program at Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, MA. Intner is the author of numerous books and journal articles on Cataloging, technical services, and collection development, including Metadata and Its Impact on Libraries and Standard Cataloging for School and Public Libraries, 4th Edition. She also edits Libraries Unlimited's Third Millennium Cataloging series.
David P. Miller is associate professor and head of technical services at the Levin Library, Curry College, in Milton, MA. His publications include articles in Cataloging & Classification Quarterly, Library Resources & Technical Services, Technicali Technicalities, and the Journal of Library Administration. He is coeditor of Salsa de Topicos = Subjects in SALSA: Spanish and Latin American Subject Access, the first fully bilingual publication of the Association for Library Collections and Technical Services (ALCTS). He has served as chair of the ALCTS Cataloging and Classification Section (CCS) and of the CCS Subject Analysis Committee, and is a member of the IFLA Classification and Indexing Section Standing Committee, as well as its information coordinator. He has received awards and honors from the New England Technical Services Librarians (NETSL), ALCTS, and CCQ, the latter for "`Such stuff as dreams are made on': How does FRBR fit performing arts?" coauthored with Patrick LeBouef.
Andrea Leigh received her BA in theater arts and MLIS in information studies from the University of California, Los Angeles. She is head of moving image processing at the Library of Congress Packard Campus for Audio Visual Conservation in Culpeper, VA. Before that, She was the Metadata Librarian at the UCLA Film & Television Archive. Andrea is active in the Association of Moving Image Archivists and Society of American Archivists where she has made presentations and written articles on topics related to the organization and description of archival moving images.
Bobby Ferguson is retired from East Baton Rouge Parish (County) Library where she was head of the Technical Services Department. Prior to that she served in the same capacity for the State Library of Louisiana, where she learned to catalog by creating MARC records for 16 mm films and sound recordings. She created the Blitz Cataloging Workbook series and published numerous magazine articles and state documents on nonprint cataloging. Ferguson taught cataloging classes and workshops in Louisiana, library schools around the country, and in Kazakhstan. She conducted several workshops for the OLAC biennial conventions, as well as state library conventions. She served as Treasurer of OLAC, and as a member of several committees in the American Library Association, including the Subject Analysis Committee.