Improving lcsh for use in online catalogs revisited-what progress has been made? What issues still remain?

Cataloging and Classification Quarterly

Volumn 29, Issue 1-2, 2000, Pages 73-89

  Atherton Cochrane, Pauline ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

Crossfile searching; Hierarchic relationships; Lcc lcsh relationships; Lcsh; Marc subject authority format; Subject searching in opacs; Syndetic structure

Indexed keywords

EID: 84855514582     PISSN: 01639374     EISSN: 15444554     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1300/J104v29n01_05     Document Type: Article

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