Proceedings of the 24th Annual Seminar/Workshop of the Nigerian Library Association, Cataloguing, Classification, and Indexing Section: held at Stella Obasanjo Library Complex, Lokoja, 17th-23rd October, 2004.

Library Philosophy and Practice › Vol. 8 Nbr. 2, March 2006

Author: Ruteyan, Josiah Oghenero

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Proceedings of the 24th Annual Seminar/Workshop of the Nigerian Library Association, Cataloguing, Classification, and Indexing Section: held at Stella Obasanjo Library Complex, Lokoja, 17th-23rd October, 2004.

The theme of this conference was strategies for managing Technical Services in library and information centres. Some of the papers presented at the sessions were:

"Subject Cataloguing and Computerization: Current Trends," by K. I. N. Nwalo of the Department of Library, Archive, and Information Science University of Ibadan. Kwalo defined subject cataloguing as the professional techniques and processes of identifying the subject matter or content of a work and choosing a suitable word or term from a thesaurus to describe the subject. Such a thesaurus or subject heading list is adopted by a bibliographic agency and so all the terms us...

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