Skip Navigation
Welcome to Trexler Library Welcome to Muhlenberg College
Path: Home Research Help: Research Basics : Catalog Search Site

Finding Library of Congress Subject Headings Online
[ A .pdf version of this document is available here. ]

  1. Log into OCLC’s WorldCat
  2. Find the grey bar near the top of the screen and select this Subjects icon
  3. Enter a Word or Concept into the box and select Find, for example, french and indian war.  You will see this result:

 

1.

United States -- History -- French and Indian War, 1755-1763  [  Expand  ]

 

Used for: French and Indian War

 

  1. Select the green Expand link to see narrower, broader, and related terms:

 

Subject Heading:

United States -- History -- French and Indian War, 1755-1763 

Used for:

French and Indian War

Broader Subject Headings:

Anglo-French War, 1755-1763  [  Expand  ]

 

Indians of North America -- Wars -- 1750-1815  [  Expand  ]

 

Seven Years' War, 1756-1763  [  Expand  ]

 

United States -- History  [  Expand  ]

Narrower Subject Headings:

Québec Campaign, 1759  [  Expand  ]

Topical Sub-Headings:

-- Battlefields  [  Expand  ]

 

-- Campaigns  [  Expand  ]

 

  1. Use terms you find to search databases and indexes.

 


Send comments to the Web Developer
© Muhlenberg College
Last modified on June 10, 2004
This document: http://www.muhlenberg.edu/library/guides/LCSH_via_OCLC.html