Some searches on HOLLIS

Since I don't know the appropriate Library of Congress Subject Heading I start with a VERY broad keyword (KW) search: prion?. This gets me what I want (any occurrence of 'prion', 'prions'), but also some junk:
 HU INDEX: LIST OF ITEMS RETRIEVED            91 items retrieved by your search:
FIND KW PRION?
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PRIONS PRIONS PRIONS
   1 prusiner stanley b 1942/ 1996  bks

RACCONTI DEL PRIONE ANTOLOGIA DEL 30 PREMIO NAZIONALE DI NARRATIVA IL PRIONE
1995 PREMIO SPECIALE TEATRO
   2 azienda di promozione turistica la spezia italy/ 1994  bks

NEURODEGENERATIVE DISEASES
   3 jolles g georges/ 1994  bks

RACCONTI DEL PRIONE ANTOLOGIA DEL 20 PREMIO NAZIONALE DI NARRATIVA IL PRIONE
   4 (la spezia giacche)/ 1994  bks

LONDON SCIENCE MUSEUMS LIBRARIES AND PLACES OF SCIENTIFIC TECHNOLOGICAL 
MEDICAL INTEREST
   5 rosen dennis 1928/ 1994  bks

FATAL FAMILIAL INSOMNIA INHERITED PRION DISEASES SLEEP AND THE THALAMUS
   6 guilleminault christian/ 1994  bks

VIRUS STRATEGIES MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND PATHOGENESIS
   7 doerfler walter 1933/ 1993  bks

LIGHT AND ELECTRON MICROSCOPIC NEUROPATHOLOGY OF SLOW VIRUS DISORDERS
   8 liberski p p/ 1993  bks

INHERITED ATAXIAS
   9 harding a e/ 1993  bks

DREVNOSTI SLAVIAN I FINNO UGROV DOKLADY SOVETSKO FINLIANDSKOGO SIMPOZIUMA PO
VOPROSAM ARKHEOLOGII 16 22 MAIA 1986 G
  10 sovetsko finliandskii simpozium po voprosam arkheologii 4th 1986/ 1992  bks

NASELENIE RUSSKOGO SEVERA V XI XIII VV PO MATERIALAM MOGILNIKOV VOSTOCHNOGO
PRIONEZHIA
  11 makarov n a nikolai andreevich/ 1990  bks

MAROC
  12 kremer gerard/ 1989  rec

PAMIATNIKI IUGO VOSTOCHNOGO PRILADOZHIA I PRIONEZHIA X XIII VV REKI SIAS
TIKHVINKA KAPSHA PASHA VORONEZHKA SVIR OLONKA TULOKSA VIDLITSA SEVERNOE I
  13 kochkurkina svetlana ivanovna/ 1989  bks

CERAMBYCIDAE OF NORTHERN ASIA
  14 cherepanov a i aleksei ignatevich 1913/ 1988  bks

NOVEL INFECTIOUS AGENTS AND THE CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM
  15 ciba foundation/ 1988  bks
My next attempt wonders aloud if there are LCSHs that include the word 'prion', and this gives me lots of useful information:
 FIND SU PRION
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PRION DISEASES
   1 [retrieves related heading: CREUTZFELDT JAKOB DISEASE]
   2 [retrieves related heading: FATAL FAMILIAL INSOMNIA]
   3 [retrieves related heading: SLOW VIRUS DISEASES]
   4 [retrieves broader heading: COMMUNICABLE DISEASES]

PRION DISEASES --CYTOPATHOLOGY
   5 light and electron microscopic neuropathology of slo/ 1993  bks

PRION DISEASES IN ANIMALS
   6 [retrieves related heading: BOVINE SPONGIFORM ENCEPHALOPATHY]
   7 [retrieves related heading: SCRAPIE]

PRION INFECTIONS
   8 [retrieves: PRION DISEASES]

PRION PIERRE 1687 1759
   9 pierre prion scribe memoires dun ecrivain de campagn /prion pier/ 1985  bks

PRIONIDAE
  10 [retrieves: CERAMBYCIDAE]

PRIONIUM SERRATUM
  11 ueber den aufbau des palmiet schilfes prionium serra /buchenau f/ 
1893  bks

PRIONOCERIDAE
  12 [retrieves: MELYRIDAE]

PRIONOTUS
  13 on the generic characteristics of prionotus stearnsi /gill theod/ 1905  bks
  14 review of the species of the genus prionotus /jordan david starr/ 1887  bks

PRIONURUS
  15 note on the genus prionurus or acanthocaulos /gill theodore 1837/ 1905  bks
Here are the records from the KW search that are useful:
From HOLLIS-MAIL@HARVARD.EDUTue Dec  3 10:45:20 1996
Date: Tue, 03 DEC 96 10:24:52
From: HOLLIS 
To: HBLACKME@liberty.uc.wlu.edu
Subject: RECORD SET# 21583

%YEAR: 1996
%AUTHOR:
%TITLE: Prions prions prions.
%PUB. INFO: Berlin; New York: Springer, c1996.
%DESCRIPTION: 163 p.: ill.; 24 cm.
%SUMMARY:
%SERIES: Current topics in microbiology and immunology,, ISSN 0070-217X; 207
%NUMBERS: ISBN 3540593438
%SUBJECTS: Prions. \ Prion Diseases.
%AUTHORS: Prusiner, Stanley B., 1942-
%LOCATION: Countway Medicine:  Serial  Shelved as: Current topics in
microbiology and immunology

%YEAR: 1994
%AUTHOR:
%TITLE: Neurodegenerative diseases.
%PUB. INFO: London [England]; San Diego: Academic Press, c1994.
%DESCRIPTION: xvi, 291 p.: ill.; 23 cm.
%SUMMARY: pt. 1. Molecular and cellular mechanisms of neuronal death -- pt. 2.
Diseases: treatment and models.
%NOTES: "Based on the proceedings of the Eight [sic] International Round Table
of the Rhone-Poulenc Rorer Foundation, Annecy, 1993"--T.p. verso.  Includes
bibliographical references and index.
%NUMBERS: ISBN 0123881854 (alk. paper)
%SUBJECTS: Central Nervous System Diseases--physiopathology--congresses. \
Central Nervous System Diseases--therapy--congresses. \ Nerve Degeneration-
-genetics--congresses. \ Prion Diseases--genetics--congresses.
%AUTHORS: Jolles, G. (Georges) \ Stutzmann, J. M. \ Rhone-Poulenc Round Table
Conference (8th: 1993: Annecy, France)
%LOCATION: Countway Medicine:  WL 300.3 N499 1994

%YEAR: 1994
%AUTHOR:
%TITLE: Fatal familial insomnia: inherited prion diseases, sleep, and the
thalamus.
%PUB. INFO: New York: Raven Press, c1994.
%DESCRIPTION: xix, 234 p.: ill.; 25 cm.
%NUMBERS: ISBN 0781701147
%SUBJECTS: Fatal familial insomnia. \ Sleep--Physiological aspects. \ Thalamus-
-Physiology. \ Insomnia. \ Prion Diseases--genetics. \ Sleep--physiology. \
Thalamus--physiology.
%AUTHORS: Guilleminault, Christian.
%LOCATION: Countway Medicine:  WM 188 F252 1994

%YEAR: 1993
%AUTHOR:
%TITLE: Virus strategies: molecular biology and pathogenesis.
%PUB. INFO: Weinheim; New York: VCH, c1993.
%DESCRIPTION: xxiii, 542 p.: ill.; 25 cm.
%SUMMARY: Strategies in virus replication -- DNA viruses -- Terminal protein
priming of DNA replication: bacteriophage 029 as a model system -- Strategies of
the Epstein-Barr virus -- Hepatitis B virus nucleocapsid assembly --
Hepadnavirus replication and approaches to antiviral therapy -- RNA viruses --
Strategies of human rhinoviruses -- Strategies of retrovirus entry into cells --
Cell-to-cell spread of HIV-1 -- Role of RT/RNase H and NC protein during
replication of HIV-1 -- Role of cellular methyltransferases during influenza
viral replication -- Nodaviruses: simple models for studies on viral structure
and function -- Viral membranes and virus receptors -- Comparative studies of
coronavirus receptors.  (cont) Processing of viral glycoproteins by host
proteases: structural aspects and functional consequences -- Hemagglutinin
polymorphism and influenza virus host range -- Regulation of viral gene
expression -- Cap-independent translation of picornavirus mRNAs -- Immortalizing
oncogenes of DNA tumor viruses: from immortalization in cell culture to tumoral
progression in the mouse -- E2 proteins of papillomaviruses as transcription and
replication factors -- Regulation of adenovirus gene expression at the level of
alternative RNA splicing -- Gene regulation by adenovirus E1 a protein and myc
protein -- Role of the mitigator sequence in the species-specific expression of
the major late promoter in adenovirus type 12 DNA.  (cont) DNA methylation: a
cellular strategy for regulating expression of integrated hepatitis B virus
genes? -- Transcriptional control of early baculovirus genes -- Virus
transformation and oncogenicity. Cellular differentiation -- DNA viruses --
Plant genome transformation by Agrobacterium tumefaciens is mediated by a
nucleoprotein complex -- Modulation of AP-1 transcription factor activity in
adenovirus-transformed cells -- Viral and cellular strategies on integrated
adenovirus genomes -- Viral genes involved in stable growth transformation of
human T-lymphocytes -- RNA viruses -- Biochemistry of recombinant v-Myc proteins
and differential gene expression in v-myc-transformed cells -- Transformation of
hematopoietic cells by avian retroviruses.  (cont) Regulation of retrovirus
infection and expression in embryonic and hematopoietic stem cells -- Viral
latency and pathogenesis -- Cryptic life cycle of adeno-associated virus -- New
look at an old virus: molecular pathogenesis of adenovirus pneumonia --
Molecular biology of prion diseases -- Considerations and experiments on the
pathogenesis of enterovirus disease -- Molecular biology of epidermodysplasia
verruciformis-associated human papillomaviruses.
%NUMBERS: ISBN 3527300279
%SUBJECTS: Host-virus relationships. \ Virus diseases. \ Molecular virology. \
Virus Diseases--etiology. \ Viruses--pathogenicity.
%AUTHORS: Doerfler, Walter, 1933- \ Bohm, P. (Petra)
%LOCATION: Countway Medicine:  QW 160.3 V8298 1993

%YEAR: 1993
%AUTHOR:
%TITLE: Light and electron microscopic neuropathology of slow virus
disorders.
%PUB. INFO: Boca Raton, Fla.: CRC Press, c1993.
%DESCRIPTION: 430 p.: ill.; 25 cm.
%NUMBERS: ISBN 0849367255 (alk. paper)
%SUBJECTS: Prion diseases--Cytopathology. \ Brain Diseases--pathology. \ Brain-
-ultrastructure. \ Microscopy, Electron. \ Slow Virus Diseases--pathology.
%AUTHORS: Liberski, P. P.
%LOCATION: Countway Medicine:  WC 540 L723 1993

%YEAR: 1993
%AUTHOR:
%TITLE: Inherited ataxias.
%PUB. INFO: New York: Raven Press, c1993.
%DESCRIPTION: [xviii], 217 p.: ill.; 27 cm.
%SUMMARY: Clinical features and classification of inherited ataxias -- Anatomy
and physiology of cerebellar disease -- Neurotransmitters in the cerebellum:
scientific aspects and clinical relevance -- Clinical imaging correlations in
inherited ataxias -- Clinical and molecular genetic studies on autosomal
recessive spastic ataxia of Charlevoix-Saguenay (ARSACS) -- Early onset ataxias
in Tunisia: intrafamilial heterogeneity -- Genetic aspects of Ataxia
Telangiectasia -- Candidates for the molecular defect in Ataxia Telangiectasia
-- Linkage studies in dominantly inherited ataxias -- Epidemiology and clinical
aspects of Machado-Joseph Disease -- Inherited prion diseases --
Phosphoinositide second messenger system in human OPCA and the mouse model --
Oligodendrocyte- and Myelin-associated inhibitors of neurite growth in the adult
nervous system -- Cerebellar grafting in Murine Heredodegenerative Ataxia:
current limitations for a therapeutic approach -- Molecular analysis of the
Friedreich's Ataxia Locus.
%SERIES: Advances in neurology; v. 61
%NUMBERS: ISBN 0881679658
%SUBJECTS: Ataxia. \ Spinocerebellar Degeneration.
%AUTHORS: Harding, A. E. \ Deufel, Thomas
%LOCATION: Countway Medicine:  WL 390 I551 1993

%YEAR: 1988
%AUTHOR:
%TITLE: Novel infectious agents and the central nervous system.
%PUB. INFO: Chichester; New York: Wiley, 1988.
%DESCRIPTION: ix, 277 p.: ill.; 24 cm.
%SERIES: Ciba Foundation symposium; 135
%NOTES: "A Wiley-Interscience publication.".  Papers and discussions from the
Symposium on Novel Infectious Agents and the Central Nervous System, held at the
Ciba Foundation, London, June 30-July 2, 1987.  Includes bibliographies and
indexes.
%NUMBERS: ISBN 0471915122.
%SUBJECTS: Central Nervous System Diseases--etiology--congresses. \ Prions-
-congresses. \ Scrapie--congresses. \ PrPSc Proteins--congresses.
%AUTHORS: Ciba Foundation. \ Symposium on Novel Infectious Agents and the
Central Nervous System (1987: Ciba Foundation)
%LOCATION: Countway Medicine:  WC 540 N937 1987