http://pegasuslibrarian.com/2007/09/curse-of-controlled-vocabulary.html Learning in Libraries and Loving It Fri, 10 Feb 2012 22:39:45 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://pegasuslibrarian.com/2007/09/curse-of-controlled-vocabulary.html/comment-page-1#comment-1463 The Joys of Journal Searching in the MLA International Bibliography. Thu, 13 Aug 2009 00:17:50 +0000 http://pegasuslibrarian.com/2007/09/the-curse-of-controlled-vocabulary/#comment-1463 [...] out how to unlock it for my students has been such a huge relief! It took me more than two years of working with it and with my students to figure out how to tease information out of it and how to explain that [...] [...] out how to unlock it for my students has been such a huge relief! It took me more than two years of working with it and with my students to figure out how to tease information out of it and how to explain that [...]

]]> http://pegasuslibrarian.com/2007/09/curse-of-controlled-vocabulary.html/comment-page-1#comment-1458 Best End-Of-Class Question Ever Wed, 12 Aug 2009 01:10:23 +0000 http://pegasuslibrarian.com/2007/09/the-curse-of-controlled-vocabulary/#comment-1458 [...] linguistics students the ins and outs of Linguistics & Language Behavior abstracts, the crazy rules indexers have to follow that force the rest of us to OR together broad and narrow terms, using what you have to find bunches of other things you might need, and the Web of [...] [...] linguistics students the ins and outs of Linguistics & Language Behavior abstracts, the crazy rules indexers have to follow that force the rest of us to OR together broad and narrow terms, using what you have to find bunches of other things you might need, and the Web of [...]

]]> http://pegasuslibrarian.com/2007/09/curse-of-controlled-vocabulary.html/comment-page-1#comment-1455 Learning about Instruction from Subject Librarians Wed, 12 Aug 2009 01:03:42 +0000 http://pegasuslibrarian.com/2007/09/the-curse-of-controlled-vocabulary/#comment-1455 [...] I showed my “subversive handout” and my work on teaching scholarly attribution, the problem of controlled vocabulary for my students (since they have to work with the MLA International Bibliography, which relies so [...] [...] I showed my “subversive handout” and my work on teaching scholarly attribution, the problem of controlled vocabulary for my students (since they have to work with the MLA International Bibliography, which relies so [...]

]]> http://pegasuslibrarian.com/2007/09/curse-of-controlled-vocabulary.html/comment-page-1#comment-1443 "Teaching the Computer" and Other Fun Substitutes for Boolean Searching Wed, 12 Aug 2009 00:32:38 +0000 http://pegasuslibrarian.com/2007/09/the-curse-of-controlled-vocabulary/#comment-1443 [...] indexing require that they include even the narrowest terms they could find (which I talked about here). And then, after we’d gathered as many broad and narrow terms as we could for each major [...] [...] indexing require that they include even the narrowest terms they could find (which I talked about here). And then, after we’d gathered as many broad and narrow terms as we could for each major [...]

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