Martha Yee reported this week about a great development in subject
searching, spearheaded particularly by Sara Shatford Layne. See this
page from UCLA's Film & Television Archive:
http://cinema.library.ucla.edu <http://cinema.library.ucla.edu/>
If you select topic or genre/form search, you can enter any combination
of words in the search box, in any order. The great thing is that the
result is a subject browse screen rather than a list of "hits," as usual
for subject keyword searches. It draws from the authorities, not just
the forms of headings on bib records, so xrefs are searched, too.
This is a development by Endeavor (Voyager), so it is, I suppose,
proprietary. But I think it's a very good development.
Ted Gemberling
UAB Lister Hill Library
(205)934-2461
Received on Wed Jul 25 2007 - 10:22:58 EDT