I am very fond of the _Library of Congress Thesaurus for Graphic Images_, put together by the prints and photos department there. I use it in a very small historical society to catalog our photos, prints, postcards, etc. It is very easy to use, it supplies us with a reliable and consistent source of subject headings, and my volunteers have no trouble using it. They do the majority of assigning of subject headings I am sad to say. :( I don't have time, although it is one of my favorite things. I have even had high school kids use it. If you really want a variety of subject headings assigned to an image turn it over to a creative and artistic teenager! :) Why waste your time coming up with new subject headings when a leader in the field, who no doubt has more time to worry about such things than you do and certainly has more people to do the worrying, has already done it. I will admit that once or twice we did not like what they used so we wrote what we preferred in our copy. Annotating it for our own use in our collection. Also, it is hard to imagine that you would come across too many things that they have not also seen. I would think this might also even hold true for the southern hemisphere, due to the international scope of the LC collection. I recommend the thesaurus -- it is a good thing. Mary Mannix Mary K. Mannix Library Director Howard County Historical Society PO Box 109 Ellicott City, MD 21041 410-750-0370 410-955-3028 (fax) [log in to unmask]