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Library of Congress Subject Headings

Known as: LCSH, Library of Congres Subject Headings, Library of Congress Subject Heading 
The Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH) comprise a thesaurus (in the information science sense, a controlled vocabulary) of subject headings… 
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2014
2014
Vanda Broughton’s Essential Library of Congress Subject Headings is the first general guide to LCSH to be published in book form… 
Review
2010
Review
2010
Development of Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH) began in 1898 and the first edition was published in parts between… 
2000
2000
KEYWORDS An understanding of the workings of Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH) is one of the most valuable conceptual… 
Review
2000
Review
2000
Contents * BACKGROUND * The LCSH Century: A Brief History of the Library of Congress Subject Headings, and Introduction to the… 
1997
1997
An analysis of a sample of 9,442 headings assigned by the Library of Congress (LC) to bibliographic records disclosed two types… 
1995
1995
This study is an attempt to assess the potential for automatic vocabulary switching from a thesaurus to Library of Congress… 
1990
1990
Two closely related projects conducted by OCLC will reduce problems that have evolved in use of the Library of Congress Subject… 
1990
1990
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH) form an important access field in many online catalogs. The high degree of control… 
1982
1982
Seven clusters of headings on three levels of generalization, listed in Library of Congress Subject Headings, 9th edition…