News and Short Communications

Abstract

Many files, including the subject catalogues of most British libraries, are arranged in order of class‐numbers or notations. These notations represent subjects and show the relations between them, and are used so that there is a useful sequence of records (e.g. entries for books) in the file (e.g. the library catalogue). To use such files it is however necessary to have an alphabetical subject index.

Citation

(1977), "News and Short Communications", Program: electronic library and information systems, Vol. 11 No. 2, pp. 64-71. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb046748