Rinne, Nathan (ESC) wrote:
This seems like big news. I just checked out Google Book Search and saw
their refine results at the bottom of the page.
For the end-user with no access to the Big Red Books, what's now
missing is only a browsable finding list of LCSH terms from where to
launch a
The best thing LC could do to encourage the continued relevancy of
LCSH and LCC---from a cost-benefit perspecive, the thing they could
do that woudl have the greatest effect with the least effort to
them---is to make the entire LCSH and LCC authority corpus available
for free in a structured
Thursday, September 4, 2005
Wide electronic distribution of the list/index of free floating LCSH
subdivisions with instructions would also be helpful IMHO. But subject
access--LCSH,
LCC, Dewey decimal, Bliss, Cutter, UDC, etc.--though worthy topics may all
be beyond the current scope of the
It seems like a very large file could be created from any very large
database that indexes the headings. I know that when I worked on the
MELVYL database the subject heading table in the database had many tens
of millions of unique entries.
Of course, WorldCat would yield the largest set, but
Rinne, Nathan (ESC) wrote:
to page 4, and all of a sudden, up at the top, it reads Books 31 - 38 of
38! What happened to the 215 books )
I suspect this is the result of their de-duping. They do this also
with web pages, but it's less obvious. With web pages, they retrieve
1000 pages
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