The Preconstructed Vocabulary: A Procrustean Bed

AUTOR(ES)

Jablonski, Stanley

RESUMO

The mechanization of bibliographic services has imposed a change from the retrospective to the prospective approach to vocabulary development. This results in vocabularies rigidly structured to serve a variety of purposes which are not always mutually compatible. The user suffers from the inflexibility of the basic framework, the dearth of cross-references, and the overspecificity of many subject headings.

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