Jonathan Rochkind said:
> I think we need to investigate other ways to display these more specific
> headings, not just a flat alphabetical list of 500 'more specific terms'
Many, many moons ago, I worked in a dental school library and used MeSH.
That had a "tree structure" volume (I told you it was many, many moons
ago--online was not yet thought of) that, if I recall correctly, placed
every heading somewhere on a top-to bottom hierarchy. I have ever since
wished LCSH were organized that way.
Here we are talking about next-generation catalogs, when there is a
thirty-year-old example of how to structure subject headings that runs
circles around what most of us have to use now. Alas, following that model
would seem to entail redesiging the subject system from the ground up,
which would cost gigabucks to do and more gigabucks to teach everyone how
to use it.
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Received on Mon Jun 11 2007 - 10:53:16 EDT