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Exploiting LCSH, LCC, and DDC To Retrieve Networked Resources: Issues and Challenges.
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Chan, Lois Mai – 2000
This paper examines how the nature of the World Wide Web and characteristics of networked resources affect subject access and analyzes the requirements of effective indexing and retrieval tools. The current and potential uses of existing tools and possible courses of future development are explored in the context of recent research. The first…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Cataloging, Dewey Decimal Classification, Indexing
Is Precoordination Unnecessary in LCSH? Are Web Sites More Important To Catalog Than Books? A Reference Librarian's Thoughts on the Future of Bibliographic Control.
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Mann, Thomas – 2000
Precoordination of Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH), in both the LCSH thesaurus and online public access catalog (OPAC) browse displays, continues to be necessary for several reasons: (1) the meaning of thousands of LCSH headings depends on their word order in ways that cannot be captured by postcoordinate Boolean combinations or by…
Descriptors: Cataloging, Coordinate Indexes, Indexing, Information Retrieval