Guidelines for subject access in national bibliographies : IFLA Working Group on Guidelines for Subject Access by National Bibliographic Agencies / edited by Yvonne Jahns.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Jahns, Yvonne.

International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions.

Series:

IFLA series on bibliographic control ; v. 45.

IFLA series on bibliographic control, 1868-8438 ; vol. 45

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Online library catalogs--Subject access.

Online library catalogs.

Classification.

Physical Description:

vi, 107 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Berlin : De Gruyter Saur, [2012]

Summary:

In a networked and globalized world of information the form of national bibliographies may have changed, however their major function remains unchanged: to inform about a country's publication landscape, its cultural and intellectual heritage. Subject access offers a major route into this landscape providing information about the dispersion of publications in specific fields of knowledge and topics contained in a particular national publishing output. The Guidelines for Subject Access in National Bibliographies give graded recommendations concerning subject indexing policies for national bibliographic agencies and illustrating various policies by providing best practice examples.

The IFLA Series on Bibliographic Control was formerly known as the UBCIM series (Universal Bibliographic Control and International MARC). It consists of reports reflecting the ongoing process towards International Cataloguing Principles, which began in 2003. Through the series of meetings represented by each volume the reader will be able to track the development and consultation taking place throughout different parts of the world that will culminate with the creation of a truly international set of principles to guide the development of cataloguing codes worldwide. Book jacket.

Contents:

1 Introduction 1

1.1 Subject access in national bibliographies 1

1.2 IFLA's Working Group on Guidelines for Subject Access by National Bibliographic Agencies 2

1.3 Outline of the Guidelines 6

2 Users of national bibliographies and subject access 9

2.1 Users of national bibliographies 9

2.2 Use of subject access in national bibliographies 10

2.3 Outcome of this review 13

3 Subject access standards and tools 15

3.1 Natural and controlled language indexing 15

3.2 Features of controlled indexing languages 16

3.3 Importance of standard indexing tools 17

3.4 Verbal indexing schemes 18

3.4.1 Subject heading lists 19

3.4.2 Thesauri 20

3.4.3 Pre-coordination and post-coordination 21

3.5 Classification schemes 22

3.5.1 Dewey Decimal Classification 24

3.5.2 Universal Decimal Classification 25

3.5.3 Library of Congress Classification 26

3.6 Automatic indexing 26

3.7 Other subject access tools 28

4 Functionality and interface of national bibliographies 31

4.1 Presentation of national bibliographies 31

4.2 General recommendations 32

4.3 Online catalogue functionalities 33

4.4 Online catalogue interfaces 34

4.5 Online catalogue queries 35

4.6 Other catalogue features 35

5 Application scenarios (indexing / access levels) 37

5.1 Different levels of subject access 37

5.2 Selection criteria for subject access levels 38

5.2.1 Characteristics of materials 39

5.2.2 Users 40

5.2.3 Other considerations 40

5.3 Decision matrix 41

6 Indexing policies of National Bibliographic Agencies 43

6.1 Communicating the indexing policy 43

6.2 Content of the indexing policy 43

7 Examples of subject access provided by National Bibliographic Agencies 45

7.1 Subject access rules and standards used by National Bibliographic Agencies 45

7.1.1 Classification schemes 45

7.1.1.1 Dewey Decimal Classification (DDC) and adaptations 46

7.1.1.2 Universal Decimal Classification (UDC) 52

7.1.1.3 Library of Congress Classification (LCC) 56

7.1.1.4 National classification schemes 56

7.1.1.5 Broad subject categorisation schemes 63

7.1.2 Verbal indexing schemes 65

7.1.2.1 Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH) and adaptations 65

7.1.2.2 Other subject heading lists or thesauri 71

7.2 National examples of indexing level policies 82

7.3 National examples of published indexing policies 84

8 List of recommendations 85.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9783110280890

3110280892

OCLC:

794295917