Library Cataloging
Personal Names
Folks doing NACO work might find interesting the article "Spanish personal name variations in national and international biomedical databases: implications for information retrieval and bibliometric studies" by R. Ruiz-Pérez, E. Delgado López-Cózar, and E. Jiménez-Contreras in the latest issue of the Journal of the Medical Library Association.
The study sought to investigate how Spanish names are handled by national and international databases and to identify mistakes that can undermine the usefulness of these databases for locating and retrieving works by Spanish authors.
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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...
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Thesauri
The College of American Pathologists (CAP) is pleased to announce that we have signed a $32.4 million, five-year sole source contract with the National Library of Medicine (NLM) to license English and Spanish language editions of SNOMED Clinical Terms...
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Z39.50
"Z39.50 and personal bibliographic software" by John W East in Library Hi Tech (2003) vol. 21 no. 1 pp. 34 - 43Many thousands of researchers are now using personal bibliographic managers such as Reference Manager, EndNote and ProCite to access bibliographic...
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Spanish Subject Headings
Oakland Public Library & San Francisco Public Library have combined their Spanish subject heading lists and made them available on the Web.Currently there are approximately 1500 Spanish subject equivalents. The file is in alphabetical order by the...
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Dewey In Spanish
A Spanish language version of Dewey to the 1000 level is available. This would be a good guide to have available where some of the patrons are Spanish speaking. I'd not want to use it for classification. The Spanish in Our Libraries (SOL) site has...
Library Cataloging