Classification Practice

Programme Features:
A practical course, for people with some experience in subject indexing, who need guidance, practice or want to refresh knowledge. Major themes throughout the course are your users, your collection, and tailoring the approach to meet their needs. A ore-enrolment form is circulated to ascertain specialized topics of interest to participants and, where possible, practical exercises will relate to these topics.

Course highlights

• basic principles and objectives
• General and special schemes and thesauri
• Build-your-own subject heading or classification scheme
• Practical exercises

On completing this course, you will be able to:

• understand the different ways in which subjects can be representated and recognize their merits
• Use subject heading lists and classification schemes effectively
• Represent subjects at levels appropriate to your working environment
• Consider devising hyour own scheme, with approriate authority control