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Is there any list anywhere of all the subject cataloging systems in the world. Below is evidence of one in Portuguese from Brazil. What system does the Biblioteca Nacional in Lisbon use for a start? is it the same? What about French, German, Spanish and Italian? Not to mention Russian, Polish, Chinese, Hindi and Japanese for a start. Somebody should do a list of these. CJK catalogs would help with Chinese, Japanese and Korean. Japanese would be done by the National Diet LIbrary I suppose and they have modelled themselves on the Library of Congress. Hindi pprobably by the National Library of India in Calcutta I suppose. It is my belief that the greatest US contribution to librarianship (and readers I might add) is subject cataloging. It is by no means infallible but an amazing entry point for information especially with hypertext making it so easy to find all the books entered under the term. Also while I think of it: is 3 subject headings a good general rule and in addition what is the maximum subject headings that have appeared on an LC subject catalog heading does anybody know? Would there be a limitation on the number on RLIN and OCLC etc anyway? One other point: the integration of CJK and non Roman catalogs into RLIN and OCLC and associated systems such as the NBD in Australia is vital. The Australian CJK has both English and non Roman interfaces. Paul Knobel ---------- From: Valeria Gauz <Valeria_Gauz@brown.edu> To: Multiple recipients of list <exlibris@library.berkeley.edu> Subject: Re: Vegetarian Cookbooks Date: Sat, 23 Sep 2000 12:05 AM The Biblioteca Nacional in Brazil uses Vegetarianismo and Culinaria vegetariana as subject terms (the library follows LCSH, and is on the internet at www.bn.br/ <http://www.bn.br/> . |