Enable separate authority control for LC children's subject headings (6xx second indicator 1).
I have been told that the LC children's subject headings have been merged into the LC adult headings, and that therefore the only way to control those headings is to change the existing 2nd indicator 1 to 0. This is non-standard MARC coding per MARC 21 Format for Bibliographic Data, which specifies second indicator 1 for LC subject headings for children's literature. It is my understanding that other libraries requested this change, so the activation of a separate LC children's subject headings thesaurus should be an option for those libraries that wish to continue standard MARC coding practice.
Marilou Hinchcliff
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Mark K Ehlert commented
I'm bumping up this post and adding my votes given this weekend's large ingestion of authority records from the LC Children's Subject Headings vocabulary.
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Marilou Hinchcliff
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Additionally, simply changing the 2nd indicator will NOT solve the problem. Many LC children's subject headings do not have an identical corresponding LC adult subject heading. So the resulting heading would still not authenticate by Alma authority control and would be stranded as an unlinked heading.