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Lawson, Karen G. – Journal of Academic Librarianship, 2009
Social tagging enables librarians to partner with users to provide enhanced subject access. This paper quantifies and compares LC subject headings from each of 31 different subject divisions with user tags from Amazon.com and LibraryThing assigned to the same titles. The intersection and integration of these schemas is described and evaluated.…
Descriptors: Library Materials, Indexing, Information Retrieval, Classification
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Meador, Roy, III; Wittig, Glenn R. – Library Resources and Technical Services, 1991
Describes research that was conducted to determine and then compare which Anglo American Cataloging 2 (AACR2) rules were used to assign access points for random samples of monographs in chemistry and in economics. Implications for automatic cataloging using expert systems are explored, and suggestions for further studies are given. (10 references)…
Descriptors: Cataloging, Chemistry, Comparative Analysis, Economics
Kessler, Julia Boone – 1981
Using decision points from Esther Piercy's "Commonsense Cataloging" as a framework for analysis, this paper compares the opinions of experts on cataloging, classification, and shelf arrangement of audiovisual materials in school libraries, public libraries, and media centers with actual practices in four school and community libraries in…
Descriptors: Audiovisual Aids, Cataloging, Classification, Comparative Analysis