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Popular LCSH with Dewey Numbers

Journal of Library Administration, 2001
Abstract With our work on the second edition of Subject Headings for Children (SHC) nearing completion, the Knowledge Organization research team is exploring various technologies to generate a companion volume to SHC. Subject Headings for Children is a simple-to-use list of Library of Congress juvenile subject headings supplemented with suggested Dewey
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Exploitation of the wikipedia category system for enhancing the value of LCSH

Proceedings of the 9th ACM/IEEE-CS joint conference on Digital libraries, 2009
This paper addresses an approach that integrates two different types of information resources: the Web and libraries. Our method begins from any keywords in Wikipedia, and induces related subject headings of LCSH through the Wikipedia category system.
Yoji Kiyota, Hiroshi Nakagawa, Satoshi Sakai, Tatsuya Mori, Hidetaka Masuda   +4 more
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LCSHfor Music: Historical and Empirical Perspectives

Cataloging & Classification Quarterly, 2000
SUMMARY The development of LC music headings is traced by reviewing the contributions and practices of the LC Music Division, the NYPL Music Division, and individual members of the Music Library Association. Cooperative efforts between LC and the Music Library Association are a hallmark of this development.
Harriette Hemmasi, J. Bradford Young
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Lcsh and Precis in Music: A Comparison

The Library Quarterly, 1985
By studying examples of their applications by the two major English language bibliographic agencies, this article compares the strengths and weaknesses of PRECIS and LCSH as regards books about music. Quantitative analysis reveals that the number of PRECIS subject statements exceeds LC subject headings except with more generic works.
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Subject Access to Archival Materials Using LCSH

Cataloging & Classification Quarterly, 1990
This paper takes for granted that archival materials will be entered into a catalog in which Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH) will be used to provide access. The purposes of subject access are discussed. The matter of selecting the appropriate extent of subject cataloging for archival entities is raised.
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Title Words as Entry Vocabulary to LCSH

Cataloging & Classification Quarterly, 1989
Dans le cadre d'une reflexion sur l'efficacite de l'utilisation d'un vocabulaire controle ou non pour l'acces par sujet dans les catalogues en ligne, se pose le probleme de l'utilisation des mots cles des titres, comme termes traduisant le sujet d'un document.
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LCSH: Semantics, Syntax and Specificity

Cataloging & Classification Quarterly, 2000
SUMMARY This paper looks at changes affecting LCSH over its 100-year history. Adopting a linguistic conceptualization, it frames these changes as relating to the semantics, syntax and pragmatics of the LCSH language. While its category semantics has remained stable over time, the LCSH relational semantics underwent a significant upheaval when a ...
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Entering the Millennium: A New Century forLCSH

Cataloging & Classification Quarterly, 2000
SUMMARY Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH), a system originally designed as a tool for subject access to the Library's own collection in the late nineteenth century, has become, in the course of the last century, the main subject retrieval tool in library catalogs throughout the United States and in many other countries.
Lois Mai Chan, Theodora Hodges
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Calling for berserkers: LCSH and OLUC, and cooperatively cataloguing

OCLC Systems & Services: International digital library perspectives, 1993
Examines access by subject and the OLUC in the context of co‐operative cataloguing. Demonstrates the creation of subject authority records in a local system for headings that do not necessarily exist in the Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH).
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Critical Views of LCSH, 1990–2001: The Third Bibliographic Essay

Cataloging & Classification Quarterly, 2005
ABSTRACT This classified critical bibliography continues the work initiated by Monika Kirtland and Pauline Cochrane, and furthered by Steven Blake Shubert. Kirtland and Cochrane published a bibliography surveying the literature critical of LCSH from 1944-1979 titled “Critical Views of LCSH–Library of Congress Subject Headings, A Bibliographic and ...
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