Subject Determination During the Cataloging Process

It is during the subject determination process that the critical terms are created that link any given document to its audience, the information seeker. Perhaps it is rational that subject cataloging should itself be subjective, but, in fact, subject catalogers create and use processes that assist them in assigning classification numbers and subject headings. The process of subject determination, however, is little understood outside the cataloging department.

About the author

Alenka Šauperl is Assistant Professor in the Department of Library and Information Science and Publishing, the Faculty of Arts, at the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia. Dr. ?auperl is a member of the International Society for Knowledge Organization, the American Society for Information Science and Technology, and the Slovene library association.

Summary

A dissection of the subject cataloguing process, seeking to answer the question, "How do cataloguers determine or identify the topic of a document and choose the appropriate subject description?" The investigation encompasses the work of 12 subject cataloguers.

Product details

• Authors: Alenka Auperl, Alenka Sauperl, Arlene G. Taylor
• Assisted by: Arlene Taylor (Editor)
• Publisher: Scarecrow Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2019
• EAN: 9780810842892
• ISBN: 978-0-8108-4289-2
• No. of pages: 184
• Dimensions: 154 mm x 216 mm x 17 mm
• Weight: 345 g
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > Book trade, library system