History
Use & Construction
Evaluation
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Cross-Reference Terms
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The Library of Congress was restarted with this American's Library.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
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This is the most important function of Library of Congress subject headings.
What is meeting the needs of the user?
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This term describes when a library user has the ability to log into an online catalog and enter in metadata or comments about the individual records.
What is social tagging?
100
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What is Related Topic?
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In 1876 he develops the Rules for a Dictionary Catalog, cutting it down to size.
Who is Charles Cutter?
200
With many synonyms and near-synonyms, these ensure that everything on a topic is categorized together.
What are Uniform Headings?
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These catagories: personality, matter, energy, space, and time are an example of this kind of organizational structure.
What is faceted?
200
These kinds of strings are created by catalogers to define in the narrowest terms possible a specific bibliographic record or group of records.
What are Subject Strings?
200
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What is Narrower Topic?
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This is the year outside libraries started contributing to LCSH.
What is 1988?
300
Instead of looking under the broader term Zoology to find information about cats, as in a classed catalog, LCSH uses this.
What is Direct Entry?
300
This strategy has superceded the in catalog translation approach to providing multilingual subject heading access to library patrons.
What is linking?
300
This program is aimed at introducing new subject headings by incorporating “outside” catalogers.
What is Subject Authority Cooperative Program?
300
SA
What is See Also?
400
This is the current edition of the LCSH.
What is the 32nd?
400
Syndetic structure is the name most closely associated with these kinds of terms in library catalogs.
What is related terms?
400
SLAM is an acronym for this.
What is Scan - the title page, table of contents, etc. Look for - key words, form of the item, author's intent, etc. Ask yourself - what is this resource about? Mentally compose a statement: "This resource is about…" ?
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What is Broader Topic?
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This person established copyright deposits in 1870.
Who is Ainsworth Rand Spofford?
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The Library of Congress is simplifying it’s subject headings for scientific plant and animal names into common American names. The creator of the system for scientific names was this man.
Who is Carl Linnaeus?
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