Subject Cataloging

This page highlights information and articles published in the Librarianship Studies & Information Technology about Subject Cataloging.

SCOPE: About subject headings. Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH), MESH, Sears List of Subject Headings, Subject Indexing, Vocabulary Control--Thesaurus, List of Subject Headings, Etc.

LIST OF ALL ARTICLES

• Library of Congress to Expand Use of LC Genre/Form Terms (LCGFT) and Implement Subject Heading (LCSH and CYAC—Children & Young Adult) Cataloging Simplification
• OCLC’s New AI Cataloging Tools
• Aboutness
• Arlene G. Taylor
• Edward Swanson Memorial Best of LRTS Award
• Controversies in the Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): the Case of Illegal Aliens
• Controlled Vocabulary
• Metadata
• Charles Ammi Cutter’s Objects of the Catalogue (or Objectives of the Library Catalog)
• ALCTS Outstanding Publication Award
• Twenty-Percent Rule (LCSH)
• COMPASS
• MARC 21
• PRECIS (Preserved Context Index System)
• POPSI (Postulate-Based Permuted Subject Indexing)
• Chain Indexing 
• Vocabulary Control 
• Problems of Natural Language in Indexing
• Indexing Languages
• Citation Indexing
• Key-Term Alphabetical (KEYTALPHA)
• Keyword Augmented in Context (KWAC)
• Keyword Out of Context (KWOC)
• Keyword in Context (KWIC) Indexing
• Title-Based Indexing
• Subject Cataloging
• Subject Indexing Process
• Subject Heading 
• Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH) - Subject Headings Manual (SHM) H 202 and H 203 Revised
• Information Access Through The Subject
• Subject Approach to Information in Libraries
• Subject Heading List
• Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH)
• Subject Headings Manual 
• Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH) : Assigning and Constructing
• Assigned Indexing
• Index
• The Role of Information Organizations in Commodifying the Kings of the Fairies

LIST OF QUIZZES

• List of quizzes from Library and Information Science Questions Answers Quizzes
• A simple term list (a "pick list") _____ semantic relationships among terms [(A) does not show (B) shows]
• Keywords and social tagging are [Fill-In-The-Blank: Keywords and social tagging are ______ approaches to access. They provide ______ collocation for resources.]
• What are the purposes of a controlled vocabulary? (Select all that apply.) [A) To allow for consistent retrieval of resources. B) To allow for comprehensive searching of a catalog. C) To allow user-supplied tags that are specific to the user that applies them. D) To allow for the control of synonyms. E) To link terms that are related to each other, for ease of retrieval. F) To repeat all the nouns that appear in the titles of every resource.]
• Using a controlled vocabulary is the same as using natural language. [True or False]
• What are the two primary methods of subject access?
• Metadata is structured information that describes resources [True or False]
• Metadata can be defined as [Fill in the Blanks. Metadata can be defined as ______ about ______. In libraries, the creation of metadata is often referred to as ______. It is a subset of ______ organization.]
• Complete Cutter's "objects" of the catalog [Fill in the Blanks. To enable a person to ________ a resource of which the ________, title, or ________ is known. To show what the library has by a given ________, on a given ________, or in a given ________ of literature.]