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Peer reviewedLipow, Anne Grodzins – Library Resources and Technical Services, 1983
This overview of the current capabilities of subject access in online public catalogs discusses keyword searching versus subject cataloging, users' views of the online catalog, and user-friendly versus user-hostile systems. Existing online catalogs in public and academic libraries are cited as examples. (EJS)
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Cataloging, Higher Education, Indexing
Peer reviewedLawrence, Gary S. – Library Resources and Technical Services, 1985
Describes various ways in which software systems for online catalogs can be designed to enhance subject access. Highlights include what to search (subject headings, titles, notes, authority-file records, classification numbers, and associated text); truncation and stemming; spelling correction; search strategies (headings, keywords, Boolean…
Descriptors: Databases, Display Systems, Information Retrieval, Library Catalogs
Peer reviewedTaylor, Arlene G. – Library Resources and Technical Services, 1992
Review of the 1991 literature on subject access in online systems discusses users and subject searching; subject access in online catalogs, including improvement of the database, search processing, the user interface, and user understanding; subject cataloging and indexing; information retrieval; thesaurus and indexing approaches; classification;…
Descriptors: Cataloging, Classification, Futures (of Society), Indexing
Peer reviewedYoung, James Bradford – Library Resources and Technical Services, 1991
Reviews the 1990 literature that concerns subject analysis. Issues addressed include subject cataloging, including Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH); classification, including Dewey Decimal Classification (DDC), Library of Congress Classification, and classification in online systems; subject access, including the online use of…
Descriptors: Bibliographic Records, Cataloging, Classification, Dewey Decimal Classification
