Commonly Used Topical Headings

The following list reflects some of the most commonly used topical headings that have been assigned to existing archival collections in ArchivesSpace.

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Aeronautics (May Subdivide Geographically)

Airplanes (May Subdivide Geographically)

Architecture (May Subdivide Geographically)

Here are entered works on the design and style of structures. Works on the process of construction are entered under Building. General works on structures or edifices are entered under Buildings.

This heading is subdivided by place for works on architecture indigenous to the place named, e.g. Architecture--United States. The heading is qualified by a national qualifier for works on architecture of the type named in the qualifier but located in other places, e.g. Architecture, American--India.

Arms control (May Subdivide Geographically)

Here are entered works on plans, arrangements, or processes resting upon explicit or implicit international agreement which govern the numbers, types, or performance characteristics of weapons systems and/or the numerical strength, organization, equipment, deployment, or employment of the armed forces of the parties involved. Works on the reduction, either unilaterally or internationally, in the personnel and/or equipment of armed forces are entered under Disarmament.

Biology (May Subdivide Geographically)

Business consultants (May Subdivide Geographically)

Business education (May Subdivide Geographically)

Chemistry (May Subdivide Geographically)

City planning (May Subdivide Geographically)

Civil engineering (May Subdivide Geographically)

Class reunions (May Subdivide Geographically)

College presidents (May Subdivide Geographically)

See also: subdivision Presidents under names of individual universities and colleges.

Compatible time-sharing system (Electronic computers)

Use for MIT time-sharing system (Electronic computers)

Computers (May Subdivide Geographically)

Here are entered works on modern electronic computers first developed after 1945. Works on present-day calculators, as well as on calculators and mechanical computers of pre-1945 vintage, are entered under Calculators.

Consulting engineers (May Subdivide Geographically)

Disarmament (May Subdivide Geographically)

Here are entered works on the reduction, either unilaterally or internationally, in the personnel and/or equipment of armed forces. Works on plans, arrangements, or processes resting upon explicit or implicit international agreement which govern the number, types, or performance characteristics of weapons systems and/or the numerical strength, organization, equipment, deployment or employment of the armed forces of the parties involved are entered under Arms control.

Education (May Subdivide Geographically)

See also: subdivision Education under names of denominations, sects, orders, etc.; and under special classes of people and various social groups; also subdivision Study and teaching under special subjects; and headings beginning with the word Educational.

Education, Higher (May Subdivide Geographically)

See also: subdivision Education (Higher) under classes of persons and ethnic groups; and subdivision Study and teaching (Higher) under names of individual corporate bodies, names of places, ethnic groups, and topical headings.

Electrical engineering (May Subdivide Geographically)

Energy policy (May Subdivide Geographically)

Engineering (May Subdivide Geographically)

Geology (May Subdivide Geographically)

Government consultants (May Subdivide Geographically)

Industries (May Subdivide Geographically)

See also: headings for individual types of industries, e.g., Construction industry.

Library planning (May Subdivide Geographically)

Mathematics (May Subdivide Geographically)

See also: subdivision Mathematics under topical headings for the mathematics applied in those fields.

Minorities (May Subdivide Geographically)

Here are entered general works on racial, religious, ethnic, or other minority groups. Works on the discipline of ethnology, and works on the origin, distribution, and characteristics of the elements of the population of a particular region or country are entered under Ethnology, with appropriate local subdivision. Theoretical works on the concept of groups of people who are bound together by common ties of ancestry and culture are entered under Ethnic groups. Works on the subjective sense of belonging to an individual ethnic group are entered under Ethnicity.

Music (May Subdivide Geographically)

See also: subdivision Music under ethnic groups for music of the group; and subdivision Songs and music under names of persons, corporate bodies, places, classes of persons, ethnic groups, wars, and topical headings for collections or single works of vocal or instrumental music about the topic or entity.

Naval architecture (May Subdivide Geographically)

Nuclear physics (May Subdivide Geographically)

Oceanography (May Subdivide Geographically)

Here are entered works on the scientific study of the ocean and its phenomena. Geographical descriptions of the world's oceans, including popular accounts of their various features and "mysteries" are entered under Ocean.

Particle accelerators (May Subdivide Geographically)

Patent suits (May Subdivide Geographically)

Photography (May Subdivide Geographically)

See also headings beginning with Photographic.

Physicists (May Subdivide Geographically)

Physics (May Subdivide Geographically)

Radar (May Subdivide Geographically)

See also subdivision Radar under individual wars, e.g. World War, 1939-1945—Radar.

Radioactivity

Recombinant DNA

Science (May Subdivide Geographically)

See also: headings beginning with the word Scientific; and subdivision Science under ethnic groups and individual wars, e.g. World War, 1939-1945—Science.

Student activities (May Subdivide Geographically)

Student participation in administration (May Subdivide Geographically)

Technology (May Subdivide Geographically)

See also: headings beginning with the words Technical and Technological; and subdivision Technology under individual wars.

Universities and colleges (May Subdivide Geographically)

See also: headings beginning with the word College and Massachusetts Institute of Technology or other names of individual institutions.

Vietnam War, 1961-1975 (May Subdivide Geographically)

Water resources development (May Subdivide Geographically)

Women (May Subdivide Geographically)

Here are entered works on the human female. Works on female organisms in general are entered under Females. See also: subdivision Women under individual wars, e.g. World War, 1939-1945—Women; also subdivision Relations with women under names of individual persons; and headings beginning with the word Women.

Women in higher education (May Subdivide Geographically)

Here are entered works on female administrators, faculty, and students in higher education. Use Women in higher education—Massachusetts—Cambridge for women at MIT.

World War, 1939-1945 (May Subdivide Geographically)