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In 1996, a study was undertaken at the University of Arkansas Libraries to evaluate the practice of front-end authority work for monographs copy cataloging. A sample of 283 name headings originating from Library of Congress, OCLC "Enhance" member, and general member copy was examined, and analysis revealed that 47.3 percent of headings correctly matched authority records already present in the library's local file. Another 41.3 percent exactly matched records in the OCLC authority file. These findings prompted the library to cease checking name headings at the point of cataloging. However, the level of inaccuracies present, combined with the value of authority records for cross-reference and note information, ensured that the Database Maintenance Unit would continue to review local headings reports and perform needed authority work.

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The impetus for a large-scale study on subject heading understanding was a recommendation of the Library of Congress (LC) Subject Subdivisions Conference that suggested standardizing the order of subject subdivisions for the purpose of simplifying subject cataloging. This paper focuses on unexpected large-scale study findings about multiple meanings for subdivided subject headings and the effects that changes of meaning for different orders of subdivisions had on the meanings that end users and librarians provided to subdivided subject headings. Findings about changes of meaning in subdivided subject headings did not dissuade the authors regarding their recommendation that the library community adopt a standard order of subdivisions. The authors also give suggestions for additional studies of subject heading understanding that build on this one.

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This short guide is intended to help librarians and OPAC system designers to make decisions about the design of displays of more than one subject heading. The authors stress that they offer guidance rather than standards or prescriptions; their clear prose is cautious and even the number of recommendations is limited. A 12-page introduction contrasts the "structural approach" and "strict alphabetical approach" to filing, showing examples and stating arguments for each. 7 chapters cover display of subdivisions, inverted headings, display of qualified headings, arrangement of numerical headings, display of subjects interfiled with names and titles, punctuation and messages to the user. Within each chapter, questions involving choices between two or more approaches are followed by brief statements of current practice (LC rules, ALA rules, and systems in existing OPACs) extensive examples demonstrating such choices, and arguments for and against each. The authors warn against ever assuming that the user knows the needed subject headings, and acknowledge that the best OPAC design often depends on the setting and on the user's understanding of the system. Although the topic may be beyond the purview of the authoring committee, the discussion here makes one yearn for interactive OPACs that can analyze the user's needs and provide appropriate guidance to whatever system is adopted

Editor

Subcommittee on the Display of Subject Headings in Subject Indexes in OPACs, Subject Analysis Committee, Cataloging and Classification Section, ALCTS, ALA

LCSH

Subject headings, Library of Congress / Evaluation

Subject

Subject headings, Library of Congress / Evaluation

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This paper recognizes the limitations of the existing file of Library of Congress authority records for subject heading assignment and validation. It makes recommendations for a new machine-readable file of authority records for topical subdivisions and for enhancements to the existing subject authority file. The recommended changes qould enable online systems to assist in subject heading formulation and verify, with limited assistance by human intermediaries, the individual components of subdivided headings. A study of subdivided subject headings in a large bibliographic database forms the basis of the recommendations

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Libraries exist to make information available to the entire community in an unbiased way. In this paper I will argure that in Aboriginal Studies, libraries are rigidly preserving the status quo, or, in other words, perpetuating the dominant paradigm, by which I mean the ethnocentric attitude that the white, modern, male-dominated society is inherently superior to any other. I shall look critically at the application of subject headings in the area of Aboriginal Studies and the effect they have of sanitising information so as not to disturb certain beliefs

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The following printed publications list the MeSH headings: the annotated alphabetic list, the tree structures, the permuted MeSH, the medical subject headings supplementary chemical records, and the 'black and white MeSH', which is shipped as part of an Index Medicus subscription. An online database is available which combines the features of these publications and can provide useful information to searchers of NLM's computer databases. Describes the scope, searching strategies and special features of the online MeSH vocabulary file

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COMPASS headings have been appearing in BNB MARC based products supplied by the National Bibliographic Service since Jan. 1991 and there has been much interest in both their structure and usage. Defines COMPASS, explains the change from PRECIS to COMPASS by the British Library, and COMPASS's relationship to PRECIS/DDC. Discusses how COMPASS headings are constructed, how COMPASS treats geographic areas, historical periods and biographies, and explains COMPASS connectives, standards, reference structure, authority file and user manuals

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In an attempt to improve access to music materials, a project to create a preliminary music thesaurus - a tool by which terms and their relationships can be displayed, analyzed and evaluated - was initiated. Music headings from LCSH were converted to the data format for Anderson Rowley Information Aystems (ARIS) thesaurus construction software. Describes thesaurus display options. ARIS provides significant enhancements for searching terms, tracking relationships among headings, and gaining an overview of music vocabulary in LCSH

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Recounts the efforts throughout the 1980s to promote the idea of a subject heading code and revisions to LC subject haedings. Describes the current situation of stasis. The Library of Congress has announced no comprehensive plan for LC Subject Headings, and it is unclear whether the concept of standardisation will be embraced

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Examines concepts of language and power in relation to the history of the Australian aboriginal people. Libraries and abstracting and indexing services play an important role in controlling and interpreting history by the selction of articles, choice of language, e.g. thesauri, to provide access points and the application of subject headings. Uses the Australian Public Affairs Information Service (APAIS) subject headings and the APIS thesaurus (1990) to illustrate this process

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Monographic titles in the Iowa State University collection within the classification range SF600-1100 (Veterinary medicine) were analyzed for appropriateness of assigned subject headings and for fit into existing LCC Schedule 'S' (Agriculture). Observations made during the study led to several suggestions on how improved access to monographic titles in the field of veterinary medicine might be provided by LCSH and the LCC

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Finding material in the library on ethnic or minority groups is problematic because of the variety of terms that are applied to them in different access sources. Cross references cannot be relied upon completely. Elaborates on some of the difficulties and provides examples of headings from the Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH) and from a selection of periodical indexes to illustrate this complex issue

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Discusses subject headings, in particular. Library of Congress Subject Headings as a standard for subject representation of documents in library catalogues. Addresses: the characteristics of LCSH, its use in subject cataloguing and retrieval and its place in online catalogues. Considers the future of LCSH

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Basis für dieses Buch war die Dissertation der Autorin an der Columbia Univ. zu 'Comparative analysis of subject an form headings of 16mm films'

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Kap.1: 'Bibliographic control of film and video'. - Kap.2: 'Access to film and video'. - Kap.3: 'Library of Congress Subject Headings'. - Kap.4: 'National Information Center for Educational Media'. - Kap.5: 'Preserved Context Index System'. - Kap.6: Alternatives in subject access'

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Claims that there is no clear plan, comprehensive philosophy, or macro approach to the revision of Library of Congress Subject Headings. Having missed a great opportunity in the mid-1980s to develop a subject analog of AACR2, LC is now in a period of decline. Discusses alternatives to LC subject access such as PRECIS and keyword searching. Urges LC to halt and reverse the decline by bold, decisive action in the 1990s

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Describes the developments of the Statistical System for Subject Designation (SSSD): a syntactical system for subject designation for libraries in Croatia, based on the construction of subject headings in agreement with the theory of the sentence nature of subject headings. The discussion is preceded by a brief summary of theories underlying basic principles and fundamental rules of the alphabetical subject catalogue

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The Dynix system's subject authority control (release 112) is examined using the University of Dayton's implementation as an example. Although capable of controlling headings and of displaying references, required procedures are necessarily cumbersome. Subdivisioins in headings prove to be a major factor in generating significant amounts of work. The structure of the system and its impact on the control process are also discussed.

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Describes the OCLC Fiction Project from the point of view of a cataloguer participating in it. The project, which has been in existence since 1991, involves adding subject headings to catalogue records on the OCLC union catalogue for individual works of fiction. Discusses the 4 types of access to individual works of fiction: from/genre, character(s), geographical setting and topical. Also considers a number of issues involving in applying these headings to works (such as genre definitions, the nature of fiction, intertextuality, and the cataloguer's subjectivity)

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Subject headings and classification numbers in catalogue records for books on Chicano literature are surveyed. Although LCSH containing the words 'Mexican American(s)' appear in 58% of the records for collections and secondary works, they appear in only 39% of the records of works for individual authors. But these subject headings appear in a higher percentage of the records for both groups of books than do Bilindex, LoC classification numbers, and DDC numbers that associate these books with Mexican-American literature. Subject cataloguing of the works of individual authors is especially problematic

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Describes the BN OPALE online database at the Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris which contains files of authority headings, bibliographical descriptions of monographs and serials, and locations of physical documents. Outlines the development of the RAMEAU subject headings authority file based on AMA (fichier d'Autorité Matière) vocabulary