Book Review: Subject Analysis in Online Catalogs
John B. Young · Library Resources and Technical Services · 2002
Book Reviews 73 manifestation-based) cataloging that often leads to dozens of records in OCLC for the same expression of the same work, especially in the humanities.And Lubetzky's sound advice about corporate authorship, taken in AACR1, was rescinded in AACR2, leading to many more works of corporate authors being identified by title alone.For all these reasons, this is a book that should be read by all librarians, information scientists, system designers, experts in informatics, knowledge engineers, and anyone else who ever creates or uses metadata, helps others use and interpret metadata, or designs systems for searching and displaying metadata.As Lubetzky says, "Those who are still longing for a code of rules which could be applied by a beginning cataloger without the exercise of judgment are looking backwards to a time which has gone by" (149).-MarthaM.