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- Title: Hierarchical Gaps and Subject Authority Control Processing: An Assessment.
- Author : Library Philosophy and Practice
- Release Date : January 22, 2003
- Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines,Books,Professional & Technical,Education,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 193 KB
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Introduction: Subject authority control procedures vary widely from library to library. Some processes are manual, they have varying staffing levels, and many are out-sourced and automated. There are two main goals behind the application of these procedures. The first is to standardize the terminology which is used in bibliographic records. This facilitates patron access to the collections and is significant to the fulfillment of the second of Cutter's objectives--to allow the patron to find what a library has by subject. The secondary effect of a subject authority control procedure is to help guide a patron from general, broad terminology to more specific, narrower headings which he or she might need. This need for records from the upper hierarchy is not unique to subject headings. Name headings for subordinate bodies exhibit the same requirement, although in what is generally a more contained environment. Name headings do not need to fit within any hierarchy other than their own, while subject headings are part of an overall schema. The name authority record (NAR) for a subordinate body, (e.g., International Business Machines Corporation. Federal Systems Division), would require that the NAR for the parent body (International Business Machines Corporation) also be included in the catalog. For topical subject headings, however, this can become significantly more complex.