• Table of Contents (TOC)
• Indexing
• Machine vs. human
• Library of Congress Classification System (LCC)
  Library of Congress Subject Headings

4. WebCat revisited

• Finding the "correct" term - LCSH
• Free-text vs. Controlled Vocabulary Searching
• WebCat Records

5. Examination of a WebCat
    record

6. Controlled vocabulary - exploring special tools for
    finding the "authorized" term. 

7.  WorldCat

8.  Relevance - your key to   successful term project results, (and a good grade). 
    
a.  Can both general and specific types of information be relevant to the same topic?
b.  How does one determine relevance? 
c.  How do search engines and database software developers determine ranking results - and are they always impartial?

DUE - Online Catalog Exercise - at the beginning of class Thursday 9-11-08

Handout - Library of Congress Classification System (LCC)

Activity:  Find background sources for Term Project Part One.  Using WebCat to find print items in the Reference Collection

Examination of the American Library Association Guide to Reference Books

Review of Library of Congress Classification System (LCC)

Where to find background information - Smith Library Reference Section

• Encyclopedias
• Dictionaries
• Topical encyclopedias
• Topical dictionaries
• Atlases
• Almanacs and Statistical works

Be sure to review Controlled Vocabulary:  One Thing Leads to Another

Discussion/samples:

• Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH)
• USE 
• UF - Use For
• BT - Broader Term
• RT - Related Term
• SA - See Also
• NT - Narrower Term
   

WorldCat - OCLC Description - imagine library catalogs from all over the world residing in one place - that's WorldCat.  It has over 106 million records of all types of items held by libraries including musical recordings, video tapes, music scores, and of course, books.  Over 50,000 libraries from all over the world contribute to this database, and it's growing by approximately a million records a year.  And now, WorldCat is selectively cataloging web pages.  Will it become a WWW directory to beat all directories?