This was originally posted to PCCLIST and we wanted to pass it along here as well. Apologies for the duplication.
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The Policy and Standards Division of the Library of Congress will revise approximately 800 subject headings that include the words violoncello for this instrument, and derivative headings (e.g., violoncellists) to cello. These changes reflect the preference in RDA: Resource Description and Access for the word cello and will be made roughly concurrent with the PCC Phase 2 updates to the LC/NAF. Several proposals will appear as examples on Tentative Subject List 03 for March 2013, but owing to the large number of records to be updated, most of the revisions will occur offlist.
LCSH headings involved include:
Violoncello
Violoncello makers
Violoncellists
headings with the medium of performance terms "violoncello" or "violoncellos"
authority records with the medium of performance terms "violoncello" or "violoncellos" in a note
Once the subject heading authority records are changed, the Policy and Standards Division will revise subject headings on bibliographic records in the Library of Congress database, including headings for which no authority record is necessary.
Geraldine Ostrove
Policy and Standards Division
Library of Congress
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