Ellen Zyroff reminds me that, as a neophyte, I have a
subject heading question:

Do you post a list of the headings that you use?
Or at least a list of the tricky ones?

For example, there are many ways to spell
transliterated Hebrew words,
such as Shavuot aka Shavuoth aka Shavuos ...
and even many ways to spell author's names,
such as Shalom Aleichem aka ... Sholom Rabinowitz
aka...

How is a catalog browser to know if his or her search
failed because there are no books in the library on
this subject or because he or she spelled the subject
or name differently?


Thanks,
Rose Myers





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