FW: [WEB4LIB] Re: Reality check -- card catalogs don't support

[Thomas Edelblute]

I think an even better example are the geographic subdivisions. There
are subject headings that allow for geographic subdivisions, and for
that you refer to a separate authority file.

-----Original Message-----
From: Nick Arnett [mailto:listbot at mccmedia.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, August 25, 1998 8:46 AM
To: Multiple recipients of list
Subject: [WEB4LIB] Re: Reality check -- card catalogs don't support


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
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