Document (#10665)

Author

Studwell, W.E.

Title

Who killed the subject code?

Source

Technical services quarterly. 12(1994) no.1, S.35-41

Year

1994

Abstract

A movement for a subject heading code to standardize LCSH and their usage gained considerable attention in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Examines the reasons for the lack of progress in this project, which include: the lack of any plan from the LoC which could serve as a philosophical foundation for either a subject access system or the changes made to it; the belief that online catalogues make a controlled subject vocabulary obsolete; and professional ignorance, apathy, and negativism. Warns that, in an increasingly complex age, lack of standardization of any technical system or process tends to lead to the demise of that system or process

Theme

Verbale Doksprachen im Online-Retrieval

Object

LCSH

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