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LCSH
Library of Congress Subject Headings. Controlled vocabulary for subject indexing used by the Library of Congress and widely used by other libraries.

LDLSCP
The Legal Deposit Shared Cataloguing Programme is a programme to share responsibility for cataloguing the legal deposit intake of new publications. The six legal deposit libraries are The British Library, The Bodleian Library, Cambridge University Library, The National Library of Scotland, The National Library of Wales and The Library of Trinity College Dublin. The Programme aims to maximise the currency, quality and coverage of the British National Bibliography (BNB) by sharing the necessary cataloguing effort associated with the large legal deposit intake. This benefits the wider bibliographic community by ensuring effective bibliographic control of ever increasing UK and Irish publishing output. The legal deposit libraries are each responsible for cataloguing an agreed allocation of printed books received under legal deposit. The share of cataloguing responsibility is benchmarked as 70:30 between the British Library and the five other legal deposit libraries respectively. In a typical record, the cataloguing source is shown by the library code in MARC field 040.

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