The subject cataloging of monographs with the use of keywords

Cataloging and Classification Quarterly

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 29-54

  Shoham, Snunith ^a   Kedar, Rochelle ^a  

^a BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Inter indexer consistency; Subject cataloging; Thesauri

Indexed keywords

EID: 20244369191     PISSN: 01639374     EISSN: 15444554     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1300/J104v33n02_03     Document Type: Article

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