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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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Subject Headings in Spanish: The lcsh-es.org Bilingual Database

Cataloging & Classification Quarterly, 2013
Spanish is one of the most widely spoken languages in the world and the various subject heading lists in the language reflect its geographic diversity. Catalogers assigning Spanish subject headings typically must rely on a variety of different sources in different formats.
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Multi-Lingual Subject Heading Scheme Based on LCSH

1985
The creation of a common European multi-lingual subject scheme based on the LCSH (Library of Congress Subject Headings) and the use of these LCSH in the CIP data and in the machine readable bibliographic descriptions of the national bibliographies.
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Matching LCSH and User Vocabulary in the Library Catalog

Cataloging & 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.
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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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Producing an LCSH Authority List for special libraries with dBase

The Electronic Library, 1990
A simple program in dBase III Plus for an LCSH authority file and printed list for special libraries is presented. The purpose of the file is to provide the user with quick access to all the primary subject headings used in the library and the shelf number assigned to each heading.
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Difference, Culture and Change: The Untapped Potential ofLCSH

Cataloging & Classification Quarterly, 2000
SUMMARY The Library of Congress Subject Headings have traditionally attempted to reflect reality neutrally. The result is bias in representing cultural margins. While neutrality is one of the ethical stances espoused by librarianship, another is universal and equitable access to information for the betterment of humanity.
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Chronological Terms and Period Subdivisions in LCSH, RAMEAU, and RSWK

Library Resources & Technical Services, 2013
After a fundamental examination of the phenomenon of time, this paper presents the history, authority, and structure of period subdivisions and chronological terms in the three subject heading languages LCSH, RAMEAU, and RSWK. Their usefulness in online searching is demonstrated using the online catalogs of the Library of Congress, the Bibliothèque ...
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Erschließung. LCSH goes RSWK?

Bibliotheksdienst, 2009
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The LCSH Century

2014
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