scholarly journals LibraryThing Tags and Library of Congress Subject  Headings: a Comparison of Science Fiction and  Fantasy Works

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Nicholas Carman
Keyword(s):  
Science Fiction ◽  
Subject Matter ◽  
Descriptive Statistics ◽  
Quantitative Methodology ◽  
Library Of Congress ◽  
Additional Information ◽  
Library Users ◽  
Subject Headings ◽  
The Subject

<p>This study examines the extent to which LibraryThing tags match their equivalent Library of Congress subject headings and looks at whether they offer any additional information about the subject matter of the books to which they are applied. This study has a largely quantitative methodology with some qualitative aspects. The researcher harvested tags from ten books in the genres of science fiction and fantasy. The tags were then classified into categories created by the researcher and examined using descriptive statistics inside Excel. The most frequently used tags were those that matched the Library of Congress subject headings, but there were a significant number of non-matching tags that offered useful additional information about the books in the sample. Library of Congress subject headings mostly identify the basic genres that the books in the sample belonged to, but added little additional information. Integrating tagging into library OPACs would create more opportunities for library users to find books in which they are interested.</p>

scholarly journals LibraryThing Tags and Library of Congress Subject  Headings: a Comparison of Science Fiction and  Fantasy Works

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Nicholas Carman
Keyword(s):  
Science Fiction ◽  
Subject Matter ◽  
Descriptive Statistics ◽  
Quantitative Methodology ◽  
Library Of Congress ◽  
Additional Information ◽  
Library Users ◽  
Subject Headings ◽  
The Subject

<p>This study examines the extent to which LibraryThing tags match their equivalent Library of Congress subject headings and looks at whether they offer any additional information about the subject matter of the books to which they are applied. This study has a largely quantitative methodology with some qualitative aspects. The researcher harvested tags from ten books in the genres of science fiction and fantasy. The tags were then classified into categories created by the researcher and examined using descriptive statistics inside Excel. The most frequently used tags were those that matched the Library of Congress subject headings, but there were a significant number of non-matching tags that offered useful additional information about the books in the sample. Library of Congress subject headings mostly identify the basic genres that the books in the sample belonged to, but added little additional information. Integrating tagging into library OPACs would create more opportunities for library users to find books in which they are interested.</p>

Second and Third Release from the Second Population Census of Pakistan, 1961

1962 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 106-113
Author(s):  
M. Sanauixah
Keyword(s):  
Urban Growth ◽  
Subject Matter ◽  
Development Economics ◽  
Population Census ◽  
Small Areas ◽  
Additional Information ◽  
Household Data ◽  
The Third ◽  
Rural And Urban ◽  
The Subject

This brief review of the second1 and third2 census bulletins from the 1961 census of Pakistan is second in a series3 of review articles by the Demographic Section of the Institute of Development Economics on the census publications. This review is really a supplement to the first in so far as the second and third bulletins are, by and large, final confirmations of the first bulletin, though the third bulletin also provides a long series of detailed figures for small areas. The second census bulletin gives the final results of some of the information collected during the 1961 census, the provisional summaries of which were published in the first bulletin. It, however, does not reproduce the literacy, houses and household data and some of the urban information from the first bulletin. Instead, it provides some additional information on population by rural-urban and religious classifications. Besides, the second release contains statistical notes on (a) growth of population, (b) rural and urban growth of population, and (c) religion. These differences between the two successive census bulletins are important and the additional information returned will form the subject matter of discussion in this article.

An American Story

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Danilo Kiš
Keyword(s):  
Civil Rights ◽  
Science Fiction ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
Subject Matter ◽  
Philosophical Reflection ◽  
The Holocaust ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Danilo Kis ◽  
The U.S

The twelve stories in this collection, published in various journals and newspapers in Yugoslavia between 1953 and 1967, provide fascinating insights into the development of Danilo Kiš as a writer. From lapidary childhood idylls to harrowing foreshadowings of the Holocaust, from a satirical treatment of totalitarianism to a philosophical reflection on perception and form, the subject matter is remarkably varied. The highly unusual title story is even set amidst the U.S. civil rights struggles of the 20th century, and several of the tales are redolent of science fiction.

scholarly journals Birth of a Subject Heading

2018 ◽  
Vol 62 (1) ◽  
pp. 16
Author(s):  
Anna M. Ferris
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Controlled Vocabulary ◽  
Library Of Congress ◽  
Authority File ◽  
Subject Headings ◽  
The Subject

This paper illustrates the process by which a subject heading is created within the controlled vocabulary of the Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH). The author details the steps involved in proposing a subject heading for inclusion in the Subject Authority File at the Library of Congress using two case studies as examples, one in which the subject heading was accepted into the LCSH system and one in which the subject heading was rejected despite being revised and resubmitted.

Engaging an Author in a Critical Reading of Subject Headings

2017 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Amelia Bowen Koford
Keyword(s):  
Critical Reading ◽  
Library Of Congress ◽  
Political Subject ◽  
Social Domination ◽  
Subject Headings ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Library Profession ◽  
Sophisticated Analysis

Most practitioners of critical librarianship agree that subject description is both valuable and political. Subject headings can either reinforce or subvert hierarchies of social domination. Outside the library profession, however, even among stakeholders such as authors, there is little awareness that librarians think or care about the politics of subject description. Talking about subject description with the authors whose works we hold and represent can strengthen our relationships, demystify our work, and hold us accountable for our practices. This paper discusses an interview I conducted with author Eli Clare about the Library of Congress Subject Headings assigned to his book, Exile and Pride: Disability, Queerness, and Liberation. Clare describes feeling dismayed by and detached from the subject headings assigned to his book. He offers a sophisticated analysis of individual headings. He also reflects on the subject description project itself, using theories from genderqueer and transgender activism to discuss the limitations of categorization.

scholarly journals The Degree of Students' Involvement in the Science Textbooks of the First Three Classes of the Basic Stage in Jordan

2012 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 108
Author(s):  
Abdelsalam M. Adili ◽  
Kawther A. Harahshe ◽  
Hussin A. Baarah
Keyword(s):  
Subject Matter ◽  
Descriptive Statistics ◽  
Science Textbooks ◽  
Basic Stage ◽  
Reliable Instrument ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Science Activities

The purpose of the present study was to find the degree of students' involvement in the science textbooks of the first three classes of the basic stage in Jordan. The sample of the study was the population itself, which was three science textbooks of the first three classes of the basic stage in Jordan. A validated and reliable instrument was developed for the purpose of the study. A descriptive statistics was used. The results of the study revealed that the degree of students' involvement in the analyzed textbooks was high in the subject matter domain, low in the figures and drawings domain, and moderate in the science activities domain. The study recommended to increase the concentration on the students' involvement in the domain of figures and drawings. 

Psychology, Science Fiction and Postmodern Space

1996 ◽  
Vol 26 (3) ◽  
pp. 143-149 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ian Parker
Keyword(s):  
Virtual Reality ◽  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Science Fiction ◽  
Subject Matter ◽  
Total Recall ◽  
Fiction Writing ◽  
The Gaze ◽  
Modern Psychology ◽  
Psychoanalytic Discourse ◽  
The Subject

This article traces the development of postmodern spaces in psychology and its wider culture through a consideration of new forms of virtual reality represented in science fiction writing. Psychology is a thoroughly modern discipline which rests upon the fantasy of observing behaviour directly. Recently, however, postmodern debates in the discipline have drawn attention to the construction of behaviour and experience in language organized through discourse. A correlative shift toward a postmodern sensitivity to language has also occurred in the neighbouring discipline of psychoanalysis, and discourse analysis thus provides the opportunity to link these two hitherto divided approaches to subjectivity. It is argued that discourse analysis combined with psychoanalysis can be employed to comprehend changes in culture which are anticipated and expressed in science fiction. Psychoanalytic theory is used alongside discourse analysis to read the film Total Recall and stories by Philip K. Dick. The analytic device of the ‘discursive complex’ is used to draw out patterns of meaning that structure the text. It is argued that this form of analysis is particularly appropriate to the subject matter, and to the new forms of subjectivity that necessarily escape the gaze of modern psychology. Virtual reality understood by way of a psychoanalytic discourse reading is able to make explicit the forms of subjectivity that inhabit varieties of postmodern space.

scholarly journals How are Cookbooks Classified in Libraries? An Examination of LCSH and LCC

NASKO ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 100 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gretchen L Hoffman
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Library Of Congress ◽  
Research Project ◽  
Subject Analysis ◽  
Subject Headings ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Over Time

There is growing interest in food and cooking in the United States, and cookbooks are published on every topic. Library standards for subject analysis must accurately represent and organize cookbooks and materials on cooking. This paper describes a research project that examined the subject of cooking in the Library of Congress Subject Headings and the Library of Congress Classification using the work of Hope Olson as a framework. It examined how the subject headings and classification numbers are constructed, how they changed over time, and how national and ethnic cuisines are treated in each standard.

Words

PMLA ◽  
1935 ◽  
Vol 50 (4) ◽  
pp. 1320-1327
Author(s):  
Colbert Searles
Keyword(s):  
Subject Matter ◽  
Assistant Professor ◽  
The Subject

THE germ of that which follows came into being many years ago in the days of my youth as a university instructor and assistant professor. It was generated by the then quite outspoken attitude of colleagues in the “exact sciences”; the sciences of which the subject-matter can be exactly weighed and measured and the force of its movements mathematically demonstrated. They assured us that the study of languages and literature had little or nothing scientific about it because: “It had no domain of concrete fact in which to work.” Ergo, the scientific spirit was theirs by a stroke of “efficacious grace” as it were. Ours was at best only a kind of “sufficient grace,” pleasant and even necessary to have, but which could, by no means ensure a reception among the elected.

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