This has been a feature in the chopac.org catalog for quite some time.
The infamous "civil war" example below...
http://chopac.org/cgi-bin/search.pl?lib=0&index=xsubject&term=civil+war&pg=1&view=b
Later,
Charles Ledvina
Ted P Gemberling wrote:
> 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 Mon Jul 30 2007 - 07:31:08 EDT