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 These can be omitted as well. These can be omitted as well.
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-  *Search by title.  If it is a pretty generic title you may get a lot of hits (hundreds), in which case include the author's last name in your search. 
-  *When searching OCLC, the item may not appear if the title we have includes series information.  Ex:  The two towers : the lord of the rings book 2.  Just search for The two towers. 
-  *Sometimes the subtitle won't be in OCLC, so you won't get any results.  Ex:  The hobbit : there and back again.  If it doesn't show up, just search for The hobbit. 
-  *Some special characters will interfere with your OCLC search.  Ex:  Hit & run.  If the item doesn't show up, search for Hit and run.  Even when replacing the "&" with "and", the result in OCLC may actually show up as Hit & run. 
-  *After you find the title, click on it and scroll down to FAST Subject Headings. 
-  *Copy and paste each Heading into the Subject field - separate each one with a comma.  Ex:  Assassins, Fugitives from justice, United States 
-  *If the Heading contains a comma, then it must be enclosed in quotation marks.  Ex:  "Keller, John (Fictitious character)" 
-  *The Usage Count tells you how many libraries use each particular heading.  Sometimes there will be a list of headings that have a Usage Count of 1 (while the others have hundreds or thousands) - if there are a lot of these 1s then they can be omitted if there are a bunch of more used ones. 
-  *If you can't find any Subject headings to copy and paste, try to find something similar and take one or two that fit.  If the item is part of a series, you can probably take one from one of the other books. 
-  *If a record set comes with BISAC terms those should be kept. You can find a full list of terms on the BISAC website at [[https://bisg.org/page/BISACEdition|Complete BISAC Subject Headings List, 2021 Edition]] 
-  *LCSH terms can be used if FAST terms are difficult to find, or at cataloguer's discretion if it would speed up the process significantly (for example if a large record set comes with robust LCSH terms already attached) - A lot of FAST terms are deconstructed LCSH terms 
  
 === Indigenous Subject Headings === === Indigenous Subject Headings ===
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