document: A question of perspective : assigning Library of Congress subject headings to classical literature and ancient history This article explains the concept of world view and shows how the world view of cataloguers influences the development and assignment of subject headings to works about other cultures and civilizations , using works from classical literature and ancient history as examples . Cataloguers are encouraged to evaluate the headings they assign to works in classical literature and ancient history in terms of the world views of Ancient Greece and Rome so that headings reflect the contents of the works they describe and give fuller expression to the diversity of thoughts and themes that characterize these ancient civilizations
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extractive_keyphrases: world view cultures civilizations classical literature ancient history ancient greece
abstractive_keyphrases: library of congress subject heading assignment ancient rome