Document (#23613)

Author

Wool, G.

Title

Filing and precoordination : how subject headings are displayed in online catalogs and why it matters

Source

The LCSH century: one hundred years with the Library of Congress Subject Headings system. Ed.: A.T. Stone

Imprint

New York : Haworth Press

Year

2000

Pages

S.91-106

Series

Cataloging and classification quarterly; vol.29, nos.1/2

Abstract

Library of Congress Subjecl Headings retrieved as the results of a search in an online catalog are likely to be filed in straight alphabetical, word-by-word order, ignoring the semantic structures of these headings and scattering headings of a similar type. This practice makes LC headings unnecessarily difficult to use and negates much of their indexing power. Enthusiasm for filing simplicity and postcoordinate indexing are likely contributing factors to this phenomenon. Since the report Headings for Tomorrow (1992) first raised this issue, filing practices favoring postcoordination over precoordination appear to have become more widespread and more entrenched

Theme

Verbale Doksprachen für präkombinierte Einträge
Verbale Doksprachen im Online-Retrieval
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Object

LCSH

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