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Subject Proposal Form

SUBJECT PROPOSAL FORM (for the Library of Congress Subject Headings)

General instructions:

This form can be use to submit proposals for new subject headings to be added to the Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH) thesaurus. The information with an asterisk (*) MUST be filled in. The other information in optional. You must list at least ONE publication that is about the subject. There is an example of a filled-in form at the end.

Your proposal will be researched by the Subject and Bibliographic Access Committee of ANSS, and you will be contacted concerning the status of your proposal. Most will be submitted to the Library of Congress as a new term or a cross-reference. Some may need modification.

If you wish to make a change to an existing subject heading, please send a detailed e-mail message to one of the following members of the Committee:

Isabel del Carmen Quintana

You may also contact us if you have any questions or comments concerning this form.

Proposal form:

(*) Your name:

(*) Your e-mail address:

(*) Subject heading/preferred term:

Cross-reference term:

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Cross-reference term:

(*) Citation of publication about this subject (please fill in ALL the information below)

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Place of publication:

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Date of publication:

If the term you are requesting is not part of the title, please list the page/pages that describe the term and paraphrase or quote the description.

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Citation of reference publications that list the term
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Comments/additional reference publications that list the term:

Example of filled in form

(*) Your name: Billy Parker
(*) Your e-mail address: parker@mail.ssc.edu

(*) Subject heading/preferred term: Mobile Indians

Cross-reference term: Mabile Indians

Cross-reference term: Maubile Indians

Cross-reference term:

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(*) Citation of publication about this subject (please fill in ALL the information below)
Author: Smith, Jean
Title: Indians of Alabama
Place of publication: Boston
Publisher: Dalton Book Company
Date of publication: 2000
If the term you are requesting is not part of the title, please list the page/pages that describe the term and paraphrase or quote the description.
Page(s): p. 100-250
Description: The book is about the Mobile and Creek Indians. The second half of the book is about the Mobile Indians. p. 101 "The Mobile Indians are part of the Muskhogean Indians."

Citation of reference publications that list the term
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Citation of web sites that list the term
url: http://ujr.jiji.index
Description: Page on Indians of Alabama lists the Mobile Indians as one of the Indian tribes of Alabama.

Comments: I could not find any other reference books that mentioned the Mobile Indians. I searched in the Encyclopedia Britannica published in 2000, and in the Outline of world cultures by George P. Murdock.