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Showing 1 to 3 of 3 for “"Library of Congress subject headings"”.
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Comparing Library of Congress subject headings to keyword searches involving LGBT topics: a pilot study
Subject access to homosexuality and other LGBT or otherwise queer topics has a complicated history. Because language used for concepts can change depending on who you ask, controlling this vocabulary is a difficult task, though an admirable one. The aim of this study is to provide a sample of …
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Coincidence of user vocabulary and Library of Congress subject headings: Experiments to improve subject access in academic library online catalogs
… needed to determine which retrieval processes in library online catalogs will increase the match success rate between user subject vocabulary and Library of Congress subject headings. Random samples of user subject terms from Northwestern University Library's NOTIS/LUIS online catalog were …
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Disciplinary discourse: explicating rhetorical and sociolinguistic networks in the archive and library
… explicates the disciplinary rhetoric of the field of Library and Information Science (LIS) and its subsequent impact on the field of writing studies and the teaching of writing. Specifically, this inquiry includes four key aspects: theorizing the field of LIS as a metadiscipline that …