Library Cataloging
The paper "Subject headings for OCLC rare book records: a case study" by Edna McClellan appears in the latest OCLC Systems & Services v. 19 no. 3.
- Oclc Terminology Services
Terminology Services, an Experimental Services for Controlled Vocabularies, a project of OCLC Research is now available.HighlightsSearch descriptions of controlled vocabulariesSearch for concepts/headings in a controlled vocabularyRetrieve a single concept/heading...
- Genre/form Headings For Radio Programs
Adapted from the e-mail distributed to many lists. As the next step in the development of genre/form headings at the Library of Congress, the Cataloging Policy and Support Office (CPSO) would like to announce the beginning of a project to add genre/form...
- English And Spanish Subject Headings
Here is an interesting service, still in beta, LC Subject Headings in Spanish or Encabezamientos de materia LC en español.This a preliminary Spanish-English/English-Spanish list of subject headings. Please use it with caution! Much of the data...
- Subject Headings
Over on AUTOCAT there is discussion on the inadequacies of subject headings. Well worth reading the thread. One suggestion was to add more cross-references to authority records. I strongly agree, but I'd not only add them to my records but use SACO...
- Dewey
WebDewey and Abridged WebDewey are updated quarterly, so April means the revisions are available.all updates to Dewey Decimal Classification, Edition 22, through March 2004 (corrections, new developments, new built numbers, and additional electronic index...
Library Cataloging
Subject Headings
The paper "Subject headings for OCLC rare book records: a case study" by Edna McClellan appears in the latest OCLC Systems & Services v. 19 no. 3.
This study presents an overview of the quality of 232 OCLC rare book cataloging records. Of the 232 records, 31 that needed subject headings were not provided with any. A total of 791 headings, including main headings (428) and subdivision headings (363), were examined and 69 discrepancies were found. The discrepancies were mainly obsolete headings. The error rate was 9 per cent. Only one typographical error was found. Moreover, 95 per cent (191) of the 201 records had been replaced at least once but the discrepancy rate remained very high at 8 per cent. Since the records examined were not randomly selected and the sample size was small, the result of this study cannot be generalized. However, the overall results indicate that the quality of OCLC rare book records need attention as much as, if not more than, other records.
- Oclc Terminology Services
Terminology Services, an Experimental Services for Controlled Vocabularies, a project of OCLC Research is now available.HighlightsSearch descriptions of controlled vocabulariesSearch for concepts/headings in a controlled vocabularyRetrieve a single concept/heading...
- Genre/form Headings For Radio Programs
Adapted from the e-mail distributed to many lists. As the next step in the development of genre/form headings at the Library of Congress, the Cataloging Policy and Support Office (CPSO) would like to announce the beginning of a project to add genre/form...
- English And Spanish Subject Headings
Here is an interesting service, still in beta, LC Subject Headings in Spanish or Encabezamientos de materia LC en español.This a preliminary Spanish-English/English-Spanish list of subject headings. Please use it with caution! Much of the data...
- Subject Headings
Over on AUTOCAT there is discussion on the inadequacies of subject headings. Well worth reading the thread. One suggestion was to add more cross-references to authority records. I strongly agree, but I'd not only add them to my records but use SACO...
- Dewey
WebDewey and Abridged WebDewey are updated quarterly, so April means the revisions are available.all updates to Dewey Decimal Classification, Edition 22, through March 2004 (corrections, new developments, new built numbers, and additional electronic index...