The relationship between subject headings for works of fiction and circulation in an academic library

Library Collections, Acquisition and Technical Services

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 459-465

  Wilson, Mary Dabney ^a   Spillane, Jodi Lynn ^a   Cook, Colleen ^a   Highsmith, Anne L ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cataloging; Circulation; Fiction; Subject headings

Indexed keywords

EID: 0038242475     PISSN: 14649055     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14649055.2000.10765710     Document Type: Article

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22. The authors recognize that collections of fiction have traditionally included subject headings in many cases. Since we were testing for a correlation between subject headings for fiction and circulation use, however we were not concerned that the data included both individual works of fiction as well as collections.