Filing and precoordination: How subject headings are displayed in online catalogs and why it matters

Cataloging and Classification Quarterly

Volumn 29, Issue 1-2, 2000, Pages 91-106

  Wool, Gregory ^a  

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Filing; Indexing; Library of congress subject headings; Online catalogs; Postcoordination; Precoordination

Indexed keywords

EID: 85014168596     PISSN: 01639374     EISSN: 15444554     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1300/J104v29n01_06     Document Type: Article

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