Research Catalog

Title

Using subject headings for online retrieval : theory, practice, and potential / Karen Markey Drabenstott, Diane Vizine-Goetz.

Author

Markey, Karen.

Publication

San Diego : Academic Press, ©1994.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Vizine-Goetz, Diane.
• OCLC.

Description

xviii, 365 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.

Summary

"Using Subject Headings for Online Retrieval is an indispensable tool for online system designers who are developing new systems or refining existing ones. The book describes subject analysis and subject searching in online catalogs, including the limitations of retrieval, and demonstrates how such limitations can be overcome through system design and programming. The book describes the Library of Congress Subject Headings system and system characteristics, shows how information is stored in machine-readable files, and offers examples of and recommendations for successful retrieval methods. Tables are included to support these recommendations, and diagrams, graphs, and bar charts are used to provide results of data analysis." "Practitioners in institutions using or considering the installation of an online catalog will refer to this book often to generate specifications. Researchers in library systems, information retrieval, and user behavior will appreciate the book's detailing of the results of an extensive, empirical study of the subject terms entered into online systems by end users. Using Subject Headings for Online Retrieval also addresses the needs of advanced students in library schools and instructors in library automation, information retrieval, cataloging, indexing, and user behavior."--Jacket.

Series Statement

Library and information science

Uniform Title

Library and information science (New York, N.Y.)

Subject

• Online bibliographic searching
• Subject headings
• Online library catalogs > Subject access
• Subject headings, Library of Congress
• MARC formats
• Subject headings, French
• Subject Headings
• subject headings
• Subject headings, Library of Congress
• Subject headings, French
• MARC formats
• Online bibliographic searching
• Online library catalogs > Subject access
• Subject headings
• Library of Congress Subject Headings
• Information storage and retrieval
• Onderwerpsontsluiting
• Catalogues de bibliothèques en ligne > Accès par sujet
• Vedettes-matière

Note

• "Published under the auspices of OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc."

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Subject Analysis in Library Catalogs -- 2 Subject Authority Records in the Machine-Readable LCSH -- 3 Subject Information in Bibliographic Records -- 4 Subject Heading Compatibility between LCSH-mr and Bibliographic Files -- 5 Studies of the Subject Queries Users Enter into Online Systems -- 6 An Overview of User Queries -- 7 Queries for Topical Subjects That Are Likely to Succeed -- 8 Others Queries Likely to Succeed -- 9 Queries for Topical Subjects Not Likely to Succeed -- 10 Other Queries Not Likely to Succeed -- 11 The Exact Approach to Subject Searching -- 12 Choosing among Existing Subject Search Approaches as Responses to User Queries -- 13 Search Trees for Subject Searching -- 14 The Future of Subject Headings for Online Information Retrieval -- Appendix A SULIRS Subject Search -- Appendix B ORION Subject Search -- Appendix C LS/2000 Subject Search -- Appendix D Multiple-Heading Match Categories -- Index.

ISBN

• 0122215702
• 9780122215704

LCCN

93042568

OCLC

• ocm29390158
• 29390158
• SCSB-2055724

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library