Using subject headings for online retrieval theory, practice, and potential

• Corporate Author: OCLC
• Other Authors: Vizine-Goetz, Diane
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: San Diego, Calif. : Academic Press, c1994.
• Series: Library and information science (New York, N.Y.) ; v. 94b.
• Subjects: Online bibliographic searching.; Subject headings.; Online library catalogs > Subject access.; elektronické knihy; electronic books
• ISBN: 0122215702; 9781849508001
• ISSN: 1876-0562 ;
• DOI: 10.1108/S1876-0562(1994)94B
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (xviii, 365 p.) : ill.

Using Subject Headings for Online Retrieval is an indispensable tool for online system designers who are grappling with developing new systems or refining existing ones. This ready reference describes subject analysis and subject searching in online catalogs, including the limitations of retrieval,...

Table of Contents:

• Subject analysis in library catalogs / Diane Vizine-Goetz
• Subject heading compatibility between LCSH-mr and bibliographic files / Diane Vizine-Goetz
• Studies of the subject queries users enter into online systems / Diane Vizine-Goetz
• An overview of user queries / Diane Vizine-Goetz
• Queries for topical subjects that are likely to succeed / Diane Vizine-Goetz
• Other queries likely to succeed / Diane Vizine-Goetz
• Queries for topical subjects not likely to succeed / Diane Vizine-Goetz
• Other queries not likely to succeed / Diane Vizine-Goetz
• The exact approach to subject searching / Diane Vizine-Goetz
• Choosing among existing subject search approaches as responses to user queries / Diane Vizine-Goetz
• Search trees for subject searching / Diane Vizine-Goetz
• The future of subject headings for online information retrieval / Diane Vizine-Goetz
• Subject authority records in the machine-readable LCSH / Diane Vizine-Goetz
• Subject information in bibliographic records / Diane Vizine-Goetz.