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LCSH in the Southern Levant* [PDF]

open access: yesCataloging & Classification Quarterly, 2018
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH) geographic headings for the Southern Levant mirror the political investment of Congress and the American public in Middle East politics over the last thi...
Holloway, Steven W
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Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH)

2009
Development of Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH) began in 1898 and the first edition was published in parts between 1909 and 1914. LCSH has undergone many changes over the years, so today's vocabulary—the most widely used subject vocabulary in the world—is quite different from what its initial developers envisioned.
exaly   +3 more sources

Matching LCSH and User Vocabulary in the Library Catalog

Cataloging and Classification Quarterly, 1989
Central to subject searching is the match between user vocabulary and the headings from Library of Congress Subject-Headings (LCSH) used in a library catalog. This paper evaluates previous matching studies, proposes a detailed list of matching categories, and tests LCSH in a study using these categories.
Allyson Carlyle
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Critical Views of LCSH- Ten Years Later:

Cataloging and Classification Quarterly, 1992
Pauline Cochrane and Monika Kirtland's "Critical Views of LCSH-Library of Congress Subject Headings: A Bibliographic and Bibliometric Essay" published in Cataloging & Classification Quarterly v.1 (2/3) 1982, pp. 71-93 has been widely cited as a source for discussion and complaints about Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH). Cochrane and Kirtland
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Integrating LCSH and MeSH in Information Systems

2003
Manuscript for a book chapter in Subject Retrieval in a Networked Environment (see full bibliographic citation), adapted from a presentation given at an IFLA Satellite Meeting held in Dublin, OH, 14-16 August 2001.
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LCSH and PRECIS in Library and Information Science: A Comparative Study [PDF]

open access: yes, 1992
This study aims to compare the performance of LCSH and PRECIS for the books published in 1987 in the field of library and information science (LIS) in order to investigate the strengths and weaknesses of each system. Subject headings and PRECIS strings assigned for 82 titles have been analyzed and the two major subject access systems have been compared
Tonta, Yaşar
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Semantic Relationships Between Title Phrases and LCSH

Cataloging and Classification Quarterly, 1991
Successful subject searching depends upon the terminology of the search query. This paper compares the terminology of book titles with that of Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH) 1 on a semantic level. Methods of ananlyzing titles into title phrases that serve as matching units are described.
exaly   +2 more sources

The utility of teaching LCSH: An exploratory study

Reference Librarian
Yuji Tosaka, David Murray
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Constructing a trueLCSHtree of a science and engineering collection

Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 2012
The Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH) is a subject structure used to index large library collections throughout the world. Browsing a collection throughLCSHis difficult using current online tools in part because users cannot explore the structure using their existing experience navigating file hierarchies on their hard drives.
Julien, Charles-Antoine   +3 more
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Semantic Navigation on the web: the LCSH case study

2008
In this paper, an innovative ontology-based, information seeking process is proposed, capable of aiding searchers in their quest to fulfill their information needs. Such a process supports multilinguality and concept disambiguation in a way that prevents overcrowding the screen while exposing the expressiveness of the underlying ontology.
Ioannis Papadakis   +2 more
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