An empirical examination of subject headings for women's studies core materials

College and Research Libraries

Volumn 59, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 130-138

  Gerhard, Kristin H ^b   Su, Mila C ^b   Rubens, Charlotte C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NONE

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EID: 0007313894     PISSN: 00100870     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5860/crl.59.2.129     Document Type: Article

References (21)

1. These references are too numerous to give a complete listing. The discussion that follows includes representative examples.
2. Sanford Berman, Prejudices and Antipathies: A Tract on the LC Subject Heads Concerning People (Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Pr., 1971).
3. Joan K. Marshall, On Equal Terms: A Thesaurus for Nonsexist Indexing and Cataloging (New York: Neal-Schuman, 1977).
4. Judith Hudson and Victoria A. Mills, "Women in the National Online Bibliographic Database," in Women Online, eds. Judith Hudson and Steven Atkinson (New York: Haworth, 1990), 245.
5. Ibid., 245.
6. Hope Olson, "Subject Access to Women's Studies Materials," in Cataloging Heresy: Challenging the Standard Bibliographic Product: Proceedings of the Congress for Librarians, February 18, 1991, ed. Bella Hass Weinberg (Medford, N.J.: Learned Information, 1992), 163.
7. Ellen Gay Detlefson, "Issues of Access to Information about Women," in Women's Collections: Libraries, Archives and Consciousness, ed. Suzanne Hildenbrand (New York: Haworth, 1986), 164.
8. Olson, "Subject Access to Women's Studies Materials," 162-65.
9. Loretta P. Koch and Barbara G. Preece, "Table of Contents Services: Retrieving Women's Studies Periodical Literature," RQ, 35 (fall 1995), 76-86.
10. Cindy Faries and Patricia A. Scott, "Invisible Collections within Women's Studies: Practical Suggestions for Access and Assessment," in Proceedings of the ACRL Seventh National Conference, Pittsburgh, March 29-April 1, 1995 (Chicago: ACRL, 1995), 411.
11. Olson, "Subject Access to Women's Studies Materials," 166.
12. Margaret N. Rogers, "Are We on Equal Terms Yet? Subject Headings in LCSH, 1975-1991," Library Resources and Technical Services 37, no. 2 (Apr. 1993): 195.
13. Ruth Dickstein, Victoria A. Mills, and Ellen J. Waite, Women in LC's Terms: A Thesaurus of Library of Congress Subject Headings Relating to Women (Phoenix, Ariz.: Oryx Pr., 1988).
14. Olson, "Subject Access to Women's Studies Materials," 165.
15. Susan E. Searing, "How Libraries Cope with Interdisciplinarity: The Case of Women's Studies," Issues in Integrative Studies, no. 10 (1992): 13.
16. Ibid.
17. Elaine Svenonius and Dorothy McGarry, "Objectivity in Evaluating Subject Heading Assignment," Cataloging & Classification Quarterly 16, no. 2 (1993): 7.
18. Ibid., 16.
19. Catherine Loeb, Susan E. Searing, and Esther Stineman, Women's Studies: A Recommended Core Bibliography, 1980-1985, 2nd ed. (Littleton, Colo.: Libraries Unlimited, 1987).
20. Library of Congress Subject Headings (Washington D.C.: Library of Congress, annual). Subject Heading Manual, 5th ed. (Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, 1996).
21. Rogers, "Are We on Equal Terms Yet?" 195.