Unique Subject Headings and the Evolving Catalog Bill Schultz Jr Eastern Illinois University Do you ever Wonder 012915 School of Visual Arts NY Q Im trying to catalog a book with no copy in OCLC its about applying ID: 574200
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The Power of Description:
Unique Subject Headings and the Evolving Catalog
Bill Schultz, Jr.
Eastern Illinois UniversitySlide2
Do you ever Wonder…
01/29/15 (School of Visual Arts, NY
)
Q: I'm trying to catalog a book with no copy in OCLC - it's about applying
Alcoholics Anonymous teachings and principles to "the disease of racism". Iusually don't deal with books on this subject matter and am having a hardtime. Does anyone have any suggestions for this?A: Twelve-step programs
4/15/15: (Poplar Creek Public Library, IL
)
So, I was just putting together a record for a Mental Health Board's resource guide and was assigning subject headings. And I began to question --
650 0 Family violence $x Services for
Services for *prevention* is implied by this, right? Or am I over-thinking this?Slide3
Anatomy of Catalog Record
The Myth of Emptiness and the New American Literature of Place by Wendy HardingSlide4
Magic
Search:
Getting
the
Best Results From Your Catalog and Beyond / Rebecca Kornegay, Heidi Buchanan, and Hidlegard B. Morgan
“Effective
use of subdivisions in searching is essential in a time when libraries talk constantly about the need
to
optimize resource discovery for their patrons
.” (
Kornegay
, et al.
V
)
Focuses on subdivisions
Inspiration for…Slide5
Developing my Own Collection
My backgroundSpecial
collections
Unique items
Specialized collectionsGetting a “feel” for what is usefulDeceptively vague topics (Twelve-step programs)Specific audiences/genres (High school students’ writings)Currently...look to at least enhance everything we touchControl headings
Add headingsSlide6
The Big Picture…Search in the 21
st Century…
More and more piled in
Books, Media, Articles, Digital collections, etc
.Single search boxesEasy to be imprecise“Although libraries may be inclined to design their home pages around a single search box to give an impression of simplicity, inadequate functionality and resource coverage may frustrate users and hide significant portions of library resources and services” (Lown, Sierra and Boyer 2013)Slide7
Importance for users
Is “discovery” a bad word?Powerful combination of OPAC capabilities and use of subject headings
Kornegay
suggests reference librarians learn 25 most popular subdivisions Slide8
Spidal and Cummings (2014)
2005 study by Gross and Taylor
36% of results for a given research question would not be found if just keywords were not found in subject headings
2011 study (
Spidal and Cummings)Survey of reference/instruction librarians about instruction33% rarely or never mentioned subject headings in sessions29% sometimes mentioned14.5% always mentionedSlide9
Need for Control…Slide10
Controlled Vocabularies and Information Overload
Discovery systems – limits by facet (geographic, topic, chronologic, etc.)
Importance in Music
Recital recordings
Inherent value...captured in ways that we may not even see yet as catalogs and things like Bibframe evolveNeed for description, precisionSlide11
And on to Some Selections…Slide12
Almost Too Obvious…
Altered states of consciousnessBig Churches
Burnout (Psychology)
Curiosities and wonders
Eccentrics and eccentricitiesProblem youthRetro (Style)Slide13
The unexpected…
African American wit and humorIndians in literature
Jewish clothing and dress
Mathematics in nature
Medicine, magic, mystic, and spagyric
http://sculptsite.com/Archive/sculpture-headlines-Patrick-Dougherty-05-04-10.htmlSlide14
Impressively Precise…
American dream in art
Creative ability in science
|x Effects of technological innovations on
Japanese American baseball playersLife change eventsPrivatization in educationReflective teachingRefuse and refuse disposal in motion picturesSociology of disabilityText messaging (cell phone systems) and traffic accidents
NeedleHaystack
-photo-courtesy-of-Flickr-user-
HikingArtist_comSlide15
A Few Call Numbers…
AC8 (Collections of essays – individual authors)
E162-E169
(U.S. description and travel by period
)GT2400 (Manners and customs – relative to private life - General)GT2868 (Manners and customs – relative to private life - Bread)
PN4888.O73
(Journalism –
Special
- Op-ed) Slide16
How do I use these?
Alphabetical including subdivisionSmall enough to be a general reference
150 items
Form of a heading leads to others of a similar nature
Sociology of (Disability)Relations with womenViolence in sportsFrom “Tennessee, East” came…Slide17
North Carolina, Western
http://www.ashevilleguidebook.com/wnc/images/Fall%20in%20the%20mountains.jpgSlide18
In Closing…
We need description more than everMetadata is part of the foundation for access
Presence of metadata is key
Filtering
TaggingRefiningSlide19
Works Cited
Kornegay
, Rebecca S., Buchanan, Heidi E
. Morgan, and Hildegard
B. Magic
Search:
Getting
The
Best Results
From Your Catalog And Beyond
.
Chicago: American
Library Association,
2009
.
Print.
Lewandowski, Dirk. "Search Engine User
Behaviour
: How Can Users Be Guided To
Quality Content
?."
Information Services &
Use
28.3/4 (2008): 261-268.
Library
,
Information Science
& Technology Abstracts
.
Web
. 24 Apr. 2015
.
Lown
, Cory, Tito Sierra, and Josh Boyer. “How Users Search the Library from a
Single
Search Box.”
College & Research Libraries
74, no. 3 (2013): 227-241
.
Spidal
, Debra, and Lara
Ursin
Cummings. "Teaching The Use Of Library Of Congress
Subject
Headings As A Research Strategy For Undergraduate Students."
College
& Undergraduate Libraries
21.2 (2014): 155-176.
Library,
Information
Science & Technology Abstracts
. Web. 17 May 2015
.
Swanson, Troy A., and Jeremy Green. "Why We Are Not Google: Lessons From A
Library
Web Site Usability Study."
Journal Of Academic Librarianship
37.3
(
2011): 222-229.
Library Literature & Information Science Index (H.W.
Wilson
)
. Web. 1 May 2015.Slide20
Thank You!
Questions?
William (Bill) Schultz, Jr.
Eastern
Illinois University wnschultz@eiu.edu