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This volume contains the proceedings of a special conference held in Florence, August 2009. The theoretical and methodological aspects of rethinking semantic access to information and knowledge are explored. Innovative projects deployed to cope with the challenges of the future are presented and discussed. This book offers a unique opportunity for librarians and other information professionals to get acquainted with the state of the art in subject indexing.

Online library catalogs --- Subject access --- Subject headings --- Controlled vocabularies (Subject headings) --- Headings, Subject --- Indexing vocabularies --- Lists of subject headings --- Structured vocabularies (Subject headings) --- Subject authorities (Information retrieval) --- Subject authority files (Information retrieval) --- Subject authority records (Information retrieval) --- Subject heading lists --- Subject headings, English --- Vocabularies, Controlled (Subject headings) --- Vocabularies, Structured (Subject headings) --- Thesauri (Controlled vocabularies) --- Authority files (Information retrieval) --- Subject cataloging --- FRSAD (Conceptual model) --- Indexing. --- Semantics.

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The purpose of authority control is to ensure consistency in representing a value - a name of a person, a place name, or a term or code representing a subject - in the elements used as access points in information retrieval. The primary purpose of this study is to produce a framework that will provide a clearly stated and commonly shared understanding of what the subject authority data/record/file aims to provide information about, and the expectation of what such data should achieve in terms of answering user needs.

Alphabetical cataloguing --- FRSAD (Conceptual model) --- Subject Headings. --- Subject headings. --- Controlled vocabularies (Subject headings) --- Headings, Subject --- Indexing vocabularies --- Lists of subject headings --- Structured vocabularies (Subject headings) --- Subject authorities (Information retrieval) --- Subject authority files (Information retrieval) --- Subject authority records (Information retrieval) --- Subject heading lists --- Subject headings, English --- Vocabularies, Controlled (Subject headings) --- Vocabularies, Structured (Subject headings) --- Thesauri (Controlled vocabularies) --- Authority files (Information retrieval) --- Subject cataloging --- FRSAR (Conceptual model) --- Functional Requirements for Subject Authority Data (Conceptual model) --- Functional Requirements for Subject Authority Records (Conceptual model) --- Entity-relationship modeling --- Subject headings

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Many information professionals working in small units today fail to find the published tools for subject-based organization that are appropriate to their local needs, whether they are archivists, special librarians, information officers, or knowledge or content managers. Large established standards for document description and organization are too unwieldy, unnecessarily detailed, or too expensive to install and maintain. In other cases the available systems are insufficient for a specialist environment, or don't bring things together in a helpful way. A purpose built, in-house system would seem to be the answer, but too often the skills necessary to create one are lacking. This practical text examines the criteria relevant to the selection of a subject-management system, describes the characteristics of some common types of subject tool, and takes the novice step by step through the process of creating a system for a specialist environment. The methodology employed is a standard technique for the building of a thesaurus that incidentally creates a compatible classification or taxonomy, both of which may be used in a variety of ways for document or information management. Key areas covered are: What is a thesaurus? Tools for subject access and retrieval; what a thesaurus is used for? Why use a thesaurus? Examples of thesauri; the structure of a thesaurus; thesaural relationships; practical thesaurus construction; the vocabulary of the thesaurus; building the systematic structure; conversion to alphabetic format; forms of entry in the thesaurus; maintaining the thesaurus; thesaurus software; and; the wider environment. Essential for the practising information professional, this guide is also valuable for students of library and information science.

Subject cataloging. --- Thesauri --- Analyse documentaire --- Thésaurus --- Subject headings. --- Subject tools. --- Subject headings --- Subject cataloging --- Social Sciences --- Library & Information Science --- tesaurusbygging --- tesauruskonstruksjon --- tesaurus --- klassifikasjon --- kunnskapsorganisering --- emnekatalogisering --- indeksering --- terminologi --- lærebøker --- kunnskapsorganisasjon --- 025.47 --- Encyclopedias and dictionaries --- Subject analysis --- Cataloging --- Content analysis (Communication) --- Indexing --- Controlled vocabularies (Subject headings) --- Headings, Subject --- Indexing vocabularies --- Lists of subject headings --- Structured vocabularies (Subject headings) --- Subject authorities (Information retrieval) --- Subject authority files (Information retrieval) --- Subject authority records (Information retrieval) --- Subject heading lists --- Subject headings, English --- Vocabularies, Controlled (Subject headings) --- Vocabularies, Structured (Subject headings) --- Thesauri (Controlled vocabularies) --- Authority files (Information retrieval) --- FRSAD (Conceptual model) --- Thésaurus

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Information organization --- Classification --- Indexing --- Subject headings --- Cross references (Information retrieval) --- Thesauri --- Library & Information Science --- Social Sciences --- Encyclopedias and dictionaries --- Catalog cross references --- Cross references (Cataloging) --- References (Information retrieval) --- Syndetic structure (Information retrieval) --- Information retrieval --- Controlled vocabularies (Subject headings) --- Headings, Subject --- Indexing vocabularies --- Lists of subject headings --- Structured vocabularies (Subject headings) --- Subject authorities (Information retrieval) --- Subject authority files (Information retrieval) --- Subject authority records (Information retrieval) --- Subject heading lists --- Subject headings, English --- Vocabularies, Controlled (Subject headings) --- Vocabularies, Structured (Subject headings) --- Thesauri (Controlled vocabularies) --- Authority files (Information retrieval) --- Subject cataloging --- FRSAD (Conceptual model) --- Books --- Index preparation --- Preparation of indexes --- Subject analysis --- Filing systems --- Knowledge, Classification of --- Information storage and retrieval --- Organization of information --- Information science --- Information storage and retrieval systems

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Cruising the Library offers a highly innovative analysis of the history of sexuality and categories of sexual perversion through a critical examination of the Library of Congress and its cataloging practices. Taking the publication of Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick’s Epistemologies of the Closet as emblematic of the Library’s inability to account for sexual difference, Melissa Adler embarks upon a detailed critique of how cataloging systems have delimited and proscribed expressions of gender, sexuality, ethnicity, and race in a manner that mirrors psychiatric and sociological attempts to pathologize non-normative sexual practices and civil subjects. Taking up a parallel analysis, Adler utilizes Roderick A. Ferguson’s Aberrations in Black as another example of how the Library of Congress fails to account for, and thereby “buries,” difference. She examines the physical space of the Library as one that encourages forms of governmentality as theorized by Michel Foucault while also allowing for its utopian possibilities. Finally, she offers a brief but highly illuminating history of the Delta Collection. Likely established before the turn of the twentieth century and active until its gradual dissolution in the 1960s, the Delta Collection was a secret archive within the Library of Congress that housed materials confiscated by the United States Post Office and other federal agencies. These were materials deemed too obscene for public dissemination or general access. Adler reveals how the Delta Collection was used to regulate difference and squelch dissent in the McCarthy era while also linking it to evolving understandings of so-called perversion in the scientific study of sexual difference. Sophisticated, engrossing, and highly readable, Cruising the Library provides us with a critical understanding of library science, an alternative view of discourses around the history of sexuality, and an analysis of the relationship between governmentality and the cataloging of research and information—as well as categories of difference—in American culture.

Classification, Library of Congress. --- Subject headings, Library of Congress. --- Cataloging --- Library science --- Library ethics --- Librarians --- Cataloguing --- Information organization --- Technical services (Libraries) --- Books --- LC subject headings --- LCSH (Library of Congress subject headings) --- Library of Congress subject headings --- Subject headings --- Library of Congress classification --- Classification --- Government policy --- Moral and ethical aspects. --- Professional ethics --- Library of Congress. --- Amerika Gikai Toshokan --- Beikoku Gikai Toshokan --- Biblioteca del Congreso --- Biblioteca del Congresso --- Biblioteca do Congresso dos Estados Unidos --- Biblioteka Kongressa --- Biblioteka Konhresu SShA --- Bibliothèque du Congrès --- Congressional Library --- Kongressiĭn Nomyn San --- L of C --- LC (Library of Congress) --- Library of the Congress of the United States of America --- Library of the United States --- Mei-kuo kuo hui tʻu shu kuan --- Sifriyat ha-Ḳongres --- U.S. Library of Congress --- United States. Congress. --- United States. Library of Congress --- Конгрессийн Номын Сан --- 國會圖書館 --- Classification. --- Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick. --- History of Sexuality. --- Knowledge Organization. --- Libraries. --- Perversion. --- Queer theory. --- Classification, Library of Congress --- Subject headings, Library of Congress --- Subject cataloging --- Evaluation. --- Social aspects --- Sexual minorities. --- Minorities. --- Delta Collection (Library of Congress) --- History. --- Minorities --- Sexual minorities --- Subject analysis --- Content analysis (Communication) --- Indexing