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Expert recommendations on the best works available on the period from the fifteenth and nineteenth centuries; from a chapter, a book, a journal article, a website, an archive, or data set.
Librarians organize information using controlled vocabulary. Books in most academic libraries are organized by Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH) in addition to author and title, and most subjects are subdivided by more specific subheadings. Not even your subject specialist librarian has memorized all of the LCSHs for his fields. If you don't know the LCSH for the topic you are searching, you can begin with a keyword ("Word(s)") search in the Classic Catalog. When you find a title that fits your topic, you can click on its record, find its LCSH ("Subjects"), and then click on that link to find all titles in the WUSTL libraries under that subject heading. Sometimes, when you find a subheading, it is worth searching under the broadest subject heading, so that you can see all the subheadings under that subject. Keep in mind, most books have multiple subject headings, and not all books which you might consider relevant to your topic will appear under the same subject heading. Assigning subject headings is a human process subject to error, judgment calls, and language conventions of the day. Below are some common subject headings for this class.
Indexes library and information science books and journals published internationally. Updated monthly. Access is limited to 1 user at a time. Please log out when you are finished.
Indexes more than 600 periodicals, plus books, research reports and proceedings. Subject coverage includes librarianship, classification, cataloging, bibliometrics, online information retrieval, information management and more. Coverage in the database extends back as far as the mid-1960s.
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