Improving LCSH for use in online catalogs revisited - what progress has been made? What issues still remain?

Cochrane, Pauline Atherton

Cataloging & classification quarterly 2000 29 (1-2)73-89
(ReLIS:jul:qmcdam:y:2000:v:29:i:1-2:p:73-89)

Abstract:

In 1986 Libraries Unlimited published Cochrane's book, Improving LCSH for Use in Online Catalogs; Exercises for Self-Help with a Selection of Background Readings. This was preceded in 1981 by an ERIC publication (ED 208 900) by Cochrane, with Monika Kirtland - a Bibliographic and Bibliometric Essay which documented critical views of LCSH and an analysis of vocabulary control in LCSH (parts of which were published in Cataloging & Classification Quarterly, 1(2/3) (1982), 71-94). Three features of LCSH will be re-examined to check on progress since the time of these earlier publications: notes, structure of relationships between headings in the list, ad links between Library of Congress classification numbers and LCSH or other vocabularies.

Keywords: Encabezamientos de materia ; Library of Congress subject headings ; Catálogos automatizados
Pages: 73-89
Volume: 29
Year: 2000
Issue: 1-2

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