Technical Services In Libraries - Week 2 Cataloging Vocabulary

Certain words used to describe the intellectual content being cataloged are called _______.

• subject headings

• annotations

• indexes

• footnotes

Searching that involves the retrieval of information based on the incidence of a term rather than the description of the information item is called what kind of searching?

• keyword searching

• subject searching

• browsing

• hierarchical searching

The method which allows contributors to catalog their own collections by adding terms which they feel best describe the content is called _______.

• folksonomy

• taxonomy

• ontology

• indexing

Developed in the 1920s, this list of controlled vocabularies was developed to meet the needs of small, and by extension, school libraries, by eliminating scientific terminology in favor of vernacular terms, and is known today as the _______.

• Sears List of Subject Headings

• Library of Congress Subject Headings

• Dewey Decimal Classification

• Universal Decimal Classification

This list of controlled vocabularies was developed by the book publishing industry to better serve the organization of bookstores, and is called the _______.

• BISAC Subject Headings

• Dewey Decimal Classification

• Library of Congress Subject Headings

• Universal Decimal Classification

Before new terms are added to the Library of Congress Subject Headings, they go through a process to determine if there are enough publications on the subject to warrant the new heading. This evaluation is known as _________?

• literary warrant

• subject analysis

• bibliographic control

• authority review

The linking of various forms of a name or subject heading is known as _________?

• authority control

• bibliographic coupling

• subject cataloging

• classification

In both Sears and LCSH the navigational abbreviation UF stands for _________

• Use For

• Universal File

• Unified Format

• User Friendly

The terms BT and NT stand for _______ and _______, respectively.

• Broader Term and Narrower Term

• Basic Term and Narrow Term

• Broad Topic and Narrow Topic

• Binary Term and Nominal Term

10. The 600 field is generally used for items about _________?

• personal names (people)

• corporate bodies

• geographical areas

• titles of works