lcsh.info is gone, but there’s a lot to learn from this paper. I wish I’d seen that earlier.

Posted December 22, 2008 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Dispatches, Libraries & Networked Information. Tags: lcsh, libraries, linked data, skos, subject headings, takedown. Be the first one.

Western North Carolina Library Network’s LC outline is full of detail.
LC outline, classification, Western North Carolina Library Network, libraries

Posted February 8, 2008 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Dispatches, Libraries & Networked Information. Tags: lcsh, lib20, libraries, library 2.0, subject browsing. Be the first one.

“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.