FAST: A New System of Subject Access for Cataloging and Metadata

ALCTS Annual Conference Program in New Orleans

Saturday June 24, 2006
1:30 pm - 3:30 pm

Track
Collection Management & Technical Services, Cataloging & Metadata

Description

Libraries have been using Library of Congress Subject Headings for over one hundred years. With the growth of electronic resources and the emergence of numerous metadata schemes for their description, there is a need for subject access methods that can handle a large volume of materials without requiring the same amount of effort and cost as in the treatment of traditional library materials. For the last several years, OCLC has been developing FAST subject headings. (FAST - Faceted Application of Subject Terminology.) In 2004, the ALCTS CCS Subject Analysis Committee established a subcommittee to evaluate FAST subject headings from the users' perspective and recommend to the library community whether FAST subject headings is the right direction to go.

Speakers

  • Ed O'Neill, Consulting Research Scientist, OCLC
  • Qiang Jin, Cataloging Librarian & NACO Coordinator, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  • Arlene Taylor, Professor Emerita, Department of Library and Information Science, University of Pittsburgh
  • Shannon Hoffman, Subject Authorities Librarian, Brigham Young University

Sponsored by
ALCTS-CCS