“Bagged products” is little better than “cookery.” I’m gonna bet that no customer has ever asked the sales people for “bagged products,” that nobody’s ever checked the yellow pages for “bagged products,” and without context, nobody would come close to answering a question on what the heck “bagged products” are all about.
But we do have [...]
Posted June 21, 2006 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Libraries & Networked Information. Tags: bagged products, categorization, classification, contextualized, contextualized results, facet, facets, findability, language, lcsh, librarianship, libraries, library systems, search, subject assignment, usability. Be the first one.
Right up front in the prologue of Ruth Wajnryb’s Expletive Deleted she quotes the following from Richard Dooling on the difficulty in researching “bad language”:
The Library of Congress classification system does not provide a selection of books … on swearing or dirty words. A researcher … must travel to the BF of psychoanalysis, the PE [...]
Posted August 17, 2005 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Blink, Books, Movies, Music, Libraries & Networked Information. Tags: call number, call numbers, classification, expletive deleted, lc, lc classification, library of congress, ruth wajnryb. Be the first one.
