-- Country -- Armed Forces

[Beartooth]

When a place is used as a geographic subdivision, you can't use
the subdivisions that would be valid under the place as a main
heading. In order to use "Armed Forces" as a subdivision here,
it would have to be valid under Organizational change, which it
is not.
United States-Armed Forces-Organization United States-Armed
Forces-Reorganization
(Why do we capitalize Forces in this subdivision?)

Why do we capitalize Armed? Why do we capitalize Army and
Navy, when they're our own?

When the question of dialects comes up among linguists,
there's an old saying that "A language is a dialect with an army
of its own."

I didn't capitalize 'army' there, and I doubt any of you
would, even if you were working in an Army library.

Come to think of it, "Why do we capitalize the L in LC?"
may be still another form of the same question ....
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Beartooth Curmudgeon, Sciuricidal Staffwright
No teratobibliotic entity dare avow MY emanations.

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[J. McRee Elrod]

The capitalization practice which bugs me most is the difference
between LCSH and MeSH. They look very strange together. Medical
libraries for which we catalogue have some non medical materials which
require LCC and LCSH used with NLMC and MeSH.

Back in the days of card catalogues, subject headings were in all caps
(or occasionally in red), but now the difference is more obvious.


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