Specificity, syndetic structure, and subject access to works about individual corporate bodies

The evolution of subject access to works about individual corporate bodies in Anglo-American subject cataloging practice is presented. Comparison is,m ade to the similar problems of works of individual biography. The lack of c omparable levels of subject access for the two classes of works is explored . Automation may have been part of the problem, but through automated maint enance routines, if offers the best hope for a viable solution. Recommendat ions are made that would restore parity in level of subject access by using syndetic reference structure and preserving the principle of specific entr y upon which most subject access systems in Anglo-American? libraries are b ased.