Tag Archives: Subject Headings
Aboriginal Peoples in Canada – LAC’s Canadian Subject Headings Announcement
August 2009 – Announcement from Library and Archives Canada (LAC) Library and Archives Canada (LAC) initiated a review in 2007 of the terminology used in Canadian Subject Headings (CSH) to identify Aboriginal peoples in Canada. A LAC proposal to change … Continue reading
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Recommended Reading
I’ve been waiting for the arrival of our newest professional collection title The Power to Name by Hope A. Olson. Hope was my cataloguing professor in graduate school. I have read other books by Hope, including Subject Analysis in Online … Continue reading
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Contextualizing Subject Access Across Digital Collections
This is a bit old (2006) but Joseph Dalton’s presentation on Contextualizing Subject Access Across Digital Collections is still a useful resource to go through. When I reviewed it, it sparked some thinking on my part as to how I … Continue reading
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“We want to look for concepts, but we are forced to search for words”
This quote is from my old Online Retrieval textbook by Geraldine Walker and Joseph Janes. I’ve been rereading this textbook to reacquaint myself with the theory behind information classification and retrieval. I’m really enjoying the discussions on the intangible nature … Continue reading
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Cataloguing Graphic Novels and Graphic Non-Fiction, Part I
I thought I’d write about cataloguing graphic novels and graphic non-fiction today. This is an issue that was raised in our department recently and involved the addition of subject headings to our records to identify fiction and non-fiction graphic novels. … Continue reading
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