That is exactly what I did. I take each book as I find it or use it for
projects and add subject that reflect our curriculum. I have some books with
over 100 subject headings. I also took all collective bios and indexed them
by subject in the catalog - makes everything so much easier. Whenever I
introduce a topic, however, I do talk about critical thinking skills and
using other words for a topic. For example I just introduced a major
assignment for sophomore on the Middle Ages - I had them give me a list of
words -- they came up with "guilds, fedualism, medieval, black death, etc."
That also helps me to know how they think and what SEARS subject headings to
add to titles.
Allan
I do all original cataloging- so makes it very easy to accomplish this as I
have to handle every new book/video/DVD, etc.
Dr. Allan O'Grady Cuseo (Brother Donogh Allan, MGC)
Bishop Kearney High School Library
125 Kings Highway South
Rochester, New York 14617
585-342 -4000 x231
585-342- 4694 (FAX)
acuseo@bkhs.org
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Robert Hiebert" <RHiebert@SD6.BC.CA>
To: <LM_NET@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU>
Sent: Thursday, February 26, 2004 11:17 AM
Subject: CATALOGUING: Your thoughts about adding lots of keywords to a
record
> Hello All,
>
> As I watch students (I'm in a high school of 500, grades 8 to 12) search
my
> catalogue I see that their expectations have been established by Google:
> when they do a keyword search for 'marijuana' they expect to find every
> book with information about marijuana; of course, that is not what
happens;
> they find only the books with the word 'marijuana' entered somewhere in
the
> record. I then tell them they need to broaden their search -- "try 'drugs'
> or 'drug abuse'" -- and many more hits appear.
>
> There is no chance I am going to effectively teach even a small minority
of
> our students how to 'broaden the search' (my half-time librarian status is
> just one reason), so I'm thinking that my catalogue has to be more
> Google-like. To that end I am considering adding many more keywords to the
> book records. My first thought is to select keywords from the table of
> contents of a book and list them in the 'note' field of the book record.
>
> I would appreciate your opinions about all this, and I would especially
> like to hear from anyone who is already doing this.
>
> Thanks for listening.
>
> Regards,
> Robert
>
>
>
> Robert Hiebert
> Librarian, Golden Secondary School, BC, Canada
> www.gsslibrary.net
> Fax: 250 344 7116
> library@gsslibrary.net
>
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