Subject Indexing: Principles and Practices in the 90’s

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- Editor’s Comments -- Session 1. Systems and Practices Today: An Overview -- Subject Access in the Brazilian Library Network: Bibliodata Calco -- Subject Access to Library Materials in Canada: Overview -- Subject Access to Library Materials in Canada: A Balancing Act Between Conformity and Divergence -- Subject Access Systems in Use in Croatia -- Cataloguing Graphics in the Prints Collection: National and University Library, Zagreb, Croatia -- Evolution of Subject Indexing Practice in France -- Subject Indexing in the Nineties: The Situation in Germany -- Subject Access in Iran -- Subject Catalogues in Poland -- Subject Indexing in Portuguese Libraries: A New Approach with SIPORbase -- Subject Indexing at the National Library of Spain -- Subject Control: The British Viewpoint -- Subject Access Systems in the USA -- Session 2. Current Issues in Subject Indexing -- The Complementarity of Natural and Controlled Languages in Indexing -- Precoordination or Not? -- International Tendencies in Terminology and Indexing -- Standards and Standardization in Subject Analysis Systems: Current Status and Future Directions -- Summary -- List of Contributors