New Subject Headings

By Ellen Paxton


This information will now be regularly provided to Connections readers in this column.

Below are a sample of some of the new subject headings which can be found in the latest SUBJECT HEADING AUTHORITY MICROFICHE or if you are using the SCIS Database on-line. Scope notes that will appear in the next edition of the SCIS SUBJECT HEADINGS LIST have been included for clarification.

ACID RAIN

x Rain. Acid

XX air pollution;rain and . rainfall; water pollution

COMMONWEALTH OF INDEPENDENT STATES

For general works on the States of the Commonwealth of Independent States which were part of the Soviet union prior to 1991, see SOVIET UNION.

For works on the specific States of the Commonwealth of Independent States , see the name of the State, e.g. RUSSIA

X C.I.S; CIS

XX RUSSIA; SOVIET UNION

DEMENTIA

See also SENILE DEMENTIA

XX PSYCHIATRIC ILLNESS

GREENHOUSE EFFECT

See also OZONE LAYER

XX OZONE LAYER

OZONE LAYER

See also GREENHOUSE EFFECT

XX AIR POLLUTION; ATMOSPHERE; GREENHOUSE EFFECT

PEER SUPPORT OF STUDENTS

x Peer counselling of students; Peer group counselling of students; Peer group tutoring of students; Student-to student counselling; Student-to Student tutoring

XX PERSONNEL SERVICE IN EDUCATION; TEACHING

SENILE DEMENTIA

XX DEMENTIA

VIRTUAL REALITY

use for works about computer generated, 3 dimensional. multi-sensory illusion that uses interactive computer graphics.

See also COMPUTER SIMULATION; SIMULATION GAMES

x Games, simulation

XX COMPUTER SIMULATION

Ellen Paxton

Ellen Paxton

Cataloguing Coordinator

SCIS