[WEB4LIB] Re: Reality check -- card catalogs don't support graph structure?

[Nick Arnett]

At 07:04 AM 8/25/98 -0700, Sheryl Dwinell wrote:
>In other cases, there are 'free-floating' subdivisions that can
>be used more freely, but still within some given guidelines. For example,
>you can have United States--History, Great Britain--History,
>France--History, etc. In online catalogs like ours, where subject headings
>can 'rotate', you can search for 'history' and pull up headings that start
>with history, as well as headings in which 'history' is a subdivision.

That is what I meant by multiple parents.  This, and the other replies
(thanks, all!) have clarified things considerably.  I'd be curious for
pointers to descriptions of efforts to do more of this kind of
cross-linking in digital catalogs. 

>Caution,
>mini rant coming: My pet peeve regarding books & articles written by
>non-librarians in which libraries are discussed is that about half the time
>they contain misleading or incorrect information regarding things like LCSH
>and online catalogs and what they can or can't do. It's pretty obvious that
>they haven't talked to actual librarians. Ok, end of rant.

So, you know why I'm here... ;-)

Nick