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Peer reviewedChan, Lois Mai – Information Technology and Libraries, 1986
Explores the potential usefulness of the Library of Congress Classification (LCC) system as a tool in online retrieval. Unique features of LCC are described and a theoretical analysis of its potentials and limitations in terms of subject browsing, enhanced vocabulary, and class number searching are presented. (CDD)
Descriptors: Cataloging, Classification, Dewey Decimal Classification, Information Retrieval
Download full textMann, 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
