<div>Re #2 below (precoordination of subject strings), LC's report at ALA Annual</div>
<div><em><a href="http://www.loc.gov/ala/an-2007-update.html">http://www.loc.gov/ala/an-2007-update.html</a></em></div>
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<div><em>Subject cataloging policy. </em>At the request of the Director for ABA, the Cataloging Policy and Support Office undertook a consideration of the pros and cons of precoordinated subject strings, defined as the combination of subject elements in a single heading in anticipation that a search may be performed on that combination. The CPSO report included a review of relevant literature. On June 13, the ABA Directorate Management Team endorsed the CPSO report's recommendation that the Library of Congress continue to apply LCSH in a precoordinated fashion. The Management Team also accepted a suite of recommendations aimed at making precoordinated LCSH easier to apply, including recommendations for projects to create many more subject-subdivision strings in order to facilitate machine validation of headings. The Management Team will explore additional means to reduce the cost of subject cataloging and ensure its relevance in search environments that extend beyond library catalogs.
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<div><br>Manon Theroux</div>
<div>Authority Control Librarian</div>
<div>Yale University Library<br> </div>
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<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">> In particular, LC management is positioning itself to change its practices<br>> in two major ways: 1) LC is moving away from its practice of requiring subject
<br>> expertise in its catalogers; and 2) it is questioning the practice of<br>> creating LC Subject Headings in precoordinated subject strings (see pages 21-27 of<br>> Mann's paper). Without precoordination, the existing cross-reference structure,
<br>> the linkages of LCSH to LC Classification, and the possibility of browse<br>> displays of subdivided headings in online catalogs, would be lost.</blockquote>
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