262 Pages
by
CRC Press
Is the quality of subject access significantly better with the online catalog than with the card catalogs? For many years, librarians have been discontent with the quality of subject access in card catalogs, and they hoped that the online catalog would offer significant improvements. This new book addresses this question from five different perspectives--research studies, opinion pieces from... Read more
ContentsPreface
- Subject Access in the Online Catalog
- Failures in Subject Retrieval
- Matching LCSH and User Vocabulary in the Library Catalog
- Cataloging Catalysis: Toward a New Chemistry of Conscience, Communication, and Conduct in the Online Catalog
- PRECIS in the Online Catalog
- The Role of Classification in Online Systems
- The Online Catalog: Dictionary, Classified, or Both?
- Implementing NOTIS Keyword/Boolean Searching: A Case Study
- Subject Access in a Bilingual Online Catalog
- Title Words as Entry Vocabulary to LCSH: Correlation Between Assigned LCSH Terms and Derived Terms From Titles in Bibliographic Records With Implications for Subject Access in Online Catalogs
- Subject Searching in Law Library OPACs
- A Subject Cataloging Code?
- A Reference Librarian?s View of the Online Subject Catalog
- Subject Access in Online Catalogs: Developments in France
- Subject Access in Online Catalogs: An Overview Bibliography
Biography
Robert P Holley
