subject headings: like tagging, only better

SUBJECTHEADINGS

LIKE TAGGING.ONLY BETTER.

WHEN ITEMS AREADDED TO DATABASES

AND LIBRARY CATALOGS,THEY ARE INDEXED.

THIS OFTEN INCLUDES:

BASIC CITATION INFORMATIONABSTRACT/SUMMARY

CALL NUMBERSUBJECT HEADINGS

SUBJECT HEADINGSARE ESSENTIALLY TAGS.

subject

THESE TAGS TELL YOU A LITTLE BIT ABOUT

WHAT THE ITEM IS ABOUT

Nursing Psychology Education

BUT THEY DON’T USE JUST ANY OLD WORDS

THEY HAVE A

LISTOF SPECIFIC WORDS

BECAUSE I MIGHT TAG AN ITEM WITH

A-bomb

AtomicBomb

SOMEONE ELSEMIGHT TAG IT WITH

AND WE WOULDHAVE CHAOS.

BY USING A

OF WORDS,

LIST

WE CAN EASILYGROUP ITEMS ABOUT

SIMILAR TOPICS.

AtomicBomb

AtomicBombAtomicBomb

AtomicBomb

THE LIBRARYCATALOG USES

LIBRARY OF CONGRESS

SUBJECT HEADINGS

DATABASES USUALLYHAVE THEIR OWN

SUBJECT HEADINGS.

LOOK FOR WORDS LIKE:

Headings SubjectsDescriptors Thesaurus

YOU CAN COMBINE

WITH

TO CREATE MORE COMPLEXSEARCH STRATEGIES

SUBJECT HEADINGS

KEYWORDS

DON’T FORGET THOSEBOOLEAN OPERATORS!BOOLEAN

ANDOR

NOT

QUESTIONS?ASK YOURLIBRARIAN

gvsu.edu/library

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