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Paul,
In the past few months, a fellow at Iowa State
compiled a list of "controlled vocabularies" and
such. Would that do? It went out over the DIGLIB list.
Melanie Gardner
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
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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/> .
Culinaria
(Alimentos naturais) is also used as a heading.
Valeria
Gauz
Catalogue Librarian
John Carter Brown Library
Brown
University - Box 1894
Providence, RI
02912
Tel: (401)863-3074
Fax:
(401)863-3477
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