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About the Library of Congress Demographic Group Terms PDF Files
This page provides PDF files for the 2018 Edition of the Library of Congress Demographic Group Terms (LCDGT) as well as the draft of the Demographic Group Terms Manual. The LCDGT vocabulary should be used in conjunction with the Manual, which provides guidelines and instructions for making proposals and for applying demographic group terms. Data for this edition was selected in January 2018.
LCDGT is also available in other formats. For users desiring enhanced functionality, LCDGT will continue to be part of LC’s web-based subscription product, Classification Web. Authority records in MARC UTF-8 format may be freely downloaded from http://classificationweb.net/LCDGT/, and they are also available for download in a variety of formats from LC’s Linked Data Service, http://id.loc.gov.
Earlier editions are available here but should not be used for cataloging.
Introduction to Library of Congress Demographic Group Terms
- Introduction to Library of Congress Demographic Group Terms (PDF, 6 p., 156 KB)
Library of Congress Demographic Group Terms
- Demographic Group Terms (PDF, 38 p., 259 KB)
Library of Congress Demographic Group Terms Manual
- L 405 MARC Authority Records for LC Demographic Group Terms (PDF, 66 KB)
- L 410 MARC Coding of LC Demographic Group Terms Describing Audience in Bibliographic and Authority Records (PDF, 50 KB)
- L 412 MARC Coding of LC Demographic Group Terms Describing Creators and Contributors in Bibliographic and Authority Records (PDF, 51 KB)
- L 420 When to Establish a New Demographic Term (PDF, 23 KB)
- L 423 Changing a Term or Deleting a Demographic Group Authority Record (PDF, 51 KB)
- L 426 Deleted Term Information (PDF, 22 KB)
- L 429 Changing References in Demographic Group Authority Records (PDF, 31 KB)
- L 435 Preparation of Demographic Group Term Proposals (PDF, 116 KB)
- L 440 Authority Research for Demographic Term Proposals (PDF, 61 KB)
- L 443 Citation of Sources (PDF, 38 KB)
- L 460 Form of Authorized Demographic Group Term (PDF, 25 KB)
- L 463 Parenthetical Qualifiers (PDF, 24 KB)
- L 465 Categories of Terms (PDF, 32 KB)
- L 468 Broader Term References (PDF, 38 KB)
- L 470 Related Term References (PDF, 28 KB)
- L 473 “Used for” References (PDF, 44 KB)
- L 476 Scope Notes (PDF, 32 KB)
- L 480 Assignment of Terms: Audience Characteristics (PDF, 49 KB)
- L 485 Assignment of Terms: Creator and Contributor Characteristics (PDF, 60 KB)
- L 487 Order of Demographic Group Terms (PDF, 37 KB)
- L 510 Age Category (PDF, 33 KB))
- L 515 Educational Level Category (PDF, 37 KB)
- L 520 Ethnic/Cultural Category (PDF, 71 KB)
- L 525 Gender Category (PDF, 22 KB)
- L 530 Language Category (PDF, 50 KB)
- L 535 Medical, Psychological, and Disability Category (PDF, 23 KB)
- L 540 National/Regional Category (PDF, 60 KB)
- L 545 Occupation/Field of Activity Category (PDF, 30 KB)
- L 550 Religion Category (PDF, 31 KB)
- L 555 Sexual Orientation Category (PDF, 22 KB)
- L 560 Social Category (PDF, 50 KB)
- Appendix A Abbreviations (PDF, 24 KB)
- Appendix B Capitalization (PDF, 36 KB)
- Appendix C Diacritics and Special Characters (PDF, 68 KB)
- Appendix D Punctuation (PDF, 23 KB)
