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Knowledge Organization: Classification and Cataloguing Theory

Notes In an online catalogue the revision process depends upon the software employed in the catalogue.
If the software provides global update capability, the revision of many bibliographic records at
once is simple.

10.6.3 Making References

References direct the user from terms not used as headings to the term that is used, and form
broader and related terms to the term chosen to represent a given subject. The List uses the
symbols found in most thesauri to point out the relationships among the terms found in the List
and to assist the cataloguer in establishing appropriate references in the public catalogue based
upon these relationships. There are three types of references: See references, See also references
and General references.

See References

A cataloguer may want to use some or all of them as references, and many cataloguers and other
see references they deem useful. The references will be more useful; if the cataloguer considers
materials from the reader’s point of view. The readers profile depends on age, background,
education, occupation, and geographical location and takes into account the type of the library
such as school, public, university or special.
These are some term that might be used as See references in a catalogue:

1. Synonyms or terms so nearly synonyms that they would cover the same material.
2. Compound headings.
3. The inverted form of heading, either an adjective-noun combination or a phrase heading,
especially if the word brought forward is not also the broader term.
4. Variant Spelling.
5. The opposite of term, when it is included in the meaning of the term without being
specifically mentioned.
6. The former forms of headings revised to reflect the common usage, when the older term
is still having much currency.

When the same heading is subsequently assigned to other works, the references are already in
place. When the cataloguers adds a heading to the authority file as needed, all the appropriate
See references are entered as well the first time the heading is used.

See also References

Under most headings in the sears list, following the Broader term label, is a term that is broader
in scope than the heading itself. As a rule, a term has only one broader term, unless it is an
example or aspects of two or more things. The broader term serves two functions in the list. The
first is to aid the cataloguer in finding the best term to assign to a work, and the second is to
indicate where See Also references should be made in the public catalogue.

Did u know? Many headings in the sears list following the Related Terms label, one or
more terms are listed that present similar or associated subjects.
A reference is never made to the heading until there is work entered under the heading in the
collection, and if the only work entered under a heading is lost or disregarded the references to

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