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National Library of Medicine Classification
    and Medical Subject Headings (MeSH)



                                          Joshua A. Parker
                                         4 December 2007
                LIS417: Subject Cataloging & Classification (Joudrey)
                   Graduate School of Library & Information Science
                                    Simmons College • Boston, MA
NLM Classification & Medical Subject Headings (MeSH)
                                                               The National Library of Medicine
                                                         National medical library of the United States
                                                              1836: Library of the Surgeon General's Office
                                                              1922: Army Medical Library
                                                              1956: National Library of Medicine
                                                         Largest medical collection in the world
                                                         Developed and maintains the NLM Classification
                                                          and Medical Subject Headings (MeSH)
                                                         MEDLINE, PubMed, and PubMed Central
                                                         UMLS (Unified Medical Language System)
                                                         Maintains several databases of genetic information
                                                         Produces advanced bioinformatics research tools
                                                      Joshua A. Parker • LIS417: Subject Cataloging & Classification (Joudrey) • Simmons College GSLIS • 4 December 2007
NLM Classification & Medical Subject Headings (MeSH)
                                                      Development & History of NLMC & MeSH
                                                         1944: Need for a new specialized medical
                                                          classification system recognized
                                                         1948: Preliminary edition of the Army Medical
                                                          Library Classification published
                                                         1951: First edition of Army Medical Library
                                                          Classification published
                                                         1954: Subject Heading Authority List published
                                                         1960: First edition of MeSH published
                                                         Present: NLMC & MeSH updated annually and are
                                                          freely available for download at www.nlm.nih.gov
                                                      Joshua A. Parker • LIS417: Subject Cataloging & Classification (Joudrey) • Simmons College GSLIS • 4 December 2007
NLM Classification & Medical Subject Headings (MeSH)
                                                      NLMC: Basic Structure, Strengths, & Weaknesses
                                                         Basic Structure
                                                              Covers preclinical as well as medical sciences
                                                              35 main classes
                                                              Supplemental 19th Century Schedule
                                                         Strengths
                                                              Well-suited for most contemporary medical collections
                                                              Simple, highly enumerative structure; easy to apply
                                                              Accommodates the use of LCC for non-medical works
                                                         Problem Areas
                                                              Alternative and non-Western medicine
                                                              Public Health/Social Medicine
                                                              Not analytico-synthetic; limited descriptive potential
                                                      Joshua A. Parker • LIS417: Subject Cataloging & Classification (Joudrey) • Simmons College GSLIS • 4 December 2007
NLM Classification & Medical Subject Headings (MeSH)
                                                      NLM Classification: Main Classes
                                                      QS    Human Anatomy                                        WI Digestive System
                                                      QT    Physiology                                           WJ Urogenital System
                                                      QU    Biochemistry                                         WK Endocrine System
                                                      QV    Pharmacology                                         WL Nervous System
                                                      QW    Microbiology and Immunology                          WM Psychiatry
                                                      QX    Parasitology                                         WN Radiology. Diagnostic Imaging
                                                      QY    Clinical Pathology                                   WO Surgery
                                                      QZ    Pathology                                            WP Gynecology
                                                                                                                 WQ Obstetrics
                                                      W     Health Professions                                   WR Dermatology
                                                      WA    Public Health                                        WS Pediatrics
                                                      WB    Practice of Medicine                                 WT Geriatrics. Chronic Disease
                                                      WC    Communicable Diseases                                WU Dentistry. Oral Surgery
                                                      WD    Disorders of Systemic, Metabolic or                  WV Otolaryngology
                                                                Environmental Origin, etc.                       WW Ophthalmology
                                                      WE    Musculoskeletal System                               WX Hospitals and Other Health Facilities
                                                      WF    Respiratory System                                   WY Nursing
                                                      WG    Cardiovascular System                                WZ History of Medicine
                                                      WH    Hemic and Lymphatic Systems                          19th Century Schedule

                                                      Joshua A. Parker • LIS417: Subject Cataloging & Classification (Joudrey) • Simmons College GSLIS • 4 December 2007
NLM Classification & Medical Subject Headings (MeSH)
                                                      NMLC: Notation
                                                         Structure:
                                                            Main Class indicated by letters
                                                            Subordinate classes by ordinal numbers
                                                            Cutters; special geographic codes (Table G)

                                                             The annual report of the Boston Lying-in Hospital for 1947
                                                                 WX 2      Hospitals, etc. + Serial Hospital Reports
                                                                 .AM4      Massachusetts (from Table G)
                                                                 B7L6a  Cutter for author + work mark
                                                                 1947      Year of publication

                                                         Arrangement
                                                            Division between preclinical & clinical topics
                                                            Rough attempt to express structural relationships

                                                      Joshua A. Parker • LIS417: Subject Cataloging & Classification (Joudrey) • Simmons College GSLIS • 4 December 2007
NLM Classification & Medical Subject Headings (MeSH)
                                                      NMLC: Comparison to DDC & LCC
                                                       Notation modeled on LCC
                                                       Schedules very highly enumerative, the only
                                                        supplementary schedule (sometimes) applied
                                                        is Table G.
                                                       Less structured than DDC; does not strongly
                                                        express relationships among classes
                                                       Some mnemonic use of numbers as in DDC
                                                           QX     18.2             Parasitology. Educational materials
                                                           WI     18.2             Digestive System. Educational materials
                                                           WN     18.2             Radiology. Educational materials
                                                           WZ     18.2             History of Medicine. Educational materials

                                                      Joshua A. Parker • LIS417: Subject Cataloging & Classification (Joudrey) • Simmons College GSLIS • 4 December 2007
NLM Classification & Medical Subject Headings (MeSH)
                                                      MeSH: Basic Structure & Strengths
                                                         Structure
                                                              Poly-hierarchical
                                                                 • The entry for each term fully describes the location of
                                                                   the term using both visual trees and notation
                                                              Syndetic Structure
                                                                 • See Also/See Related, XR references
                                                                 • Entry Term/X (Used For references)
                                                                 • Consider Also references
                                                         Strengths
                                                              Allows for several approaches to any single term
                                                              Scope notes and annotations for every term and
                                                               qualifier (subheading)
                                                              Used for both monographic literature and indexing
                                                               papers published in journals
                                                      Joshua A. Parker • LIS417: Subject Cataloging & Classification (Joudrey) • Simmons College GSLIS • 4 December 2007
NLM Classification & Medical Subject Headings (MeSH)
                                                      MeSH Structure Example: Alzheimer Disease
                                                                               DISEASES                                    PSYCHIATRY & PSYCHOLOGY


                                                                           Nervous System
                                                                              Diseases                                                 Mental Disorders



                                                                                                Central Nervous
                                                                                                System Diseases                     Delirium, Dementia,
                                                         Neurodegenerative                                                          Amnestic, Cognitive
                                                             Diseases                                                                     Disorders
                                                                                                      Brain Diseases


                                                                                       Tauopathies               Dementia


                                                                                                Alzheimer Disease

                                                      Joshua A. Parker • LIS417: Subject Cataloging & Classification (Joudrey) • Simmons College GSLIS • 4 December 2007
NLM Classification & Medical Subject Headings (MeSH)
                                                      MeSH Structure Example: Sjögren's Syndrome
                                                                                                     DISEASES


                                                          Eye           Musculoskeletal        Skin and Connective          Immune System          Stomatognathic
                                                        Diseases           Diseases               Tissue Diseases              Diseases               Diseases



                                                                                                  Connective Tissue                                 Mouth Diseases
                                                         Lacrimal
                                                        Apparatus       Joint Diseases                Diseases
                                                         Diseases

                                                                                                                              Autoimmune
                                                                                          Rheumatic Diseases                    Diseases
                                                                                                                                                    Salivary Gland
                                                                         Arthritis                                                                      Diseases


                                                         Dry Eye
                                                        Syndromes                             Arthritis, Rheumatoid                                     Xerostomia




                                                                                               Sjogren's Syndrome

                                                      Joshua A. Parker • LIS417: Subject Cataloging & Classification (Joudrey) • Simmons College GSLIS • 4 December 2007
NLM Classification & Medical Subject Headings (MeSH)
                                                      MeSH: Characteristics of the Vocabulary
                                                         Extremely specific and exhaustive for medical and
                                                          medically-related topics

                                                         Vocabulary designed to treat each term consistently
                                                          in comparison to other parallel terms

                                                         Limited subject field helps maintain internal
                                                          coherence

                                                         Particularly powerful when used with NLM's
                                                          MEDLINE/PubMed, allowing for the construction of
                                                          very focused searches
                                                      Joshua A. Parker • LIS417: Subject Cataloging & Classification (Joudrey) • Simmons College GSLIS • 4 December 2007
NLM Classification & Medical Subject Headings (MeSH)
                                                      MeSH: Facilities for Coordination
                                                         Use of Qualifiers
                                                              Each qualifier has a note detailing its use
                                                             parasitology (A, B1, B2, B6, C, E7, F3, J2) PS, parasitol
                                                             Used with animals, higher plants, organs, and diseases for parasitic factors. In
                                                             diseases, it is not used if the parasitic involvement is implicit in the diagnosis.

                                                              The description of each MeSH term includes a list of
                                                               allowable qualifiers

                                                         Application of multiple terms
                                                             245 00        ‡a Salivary electrostimulation in Sjogren's syndrome.
                                                             650 _2        ‡a Xerostomia ‡x therapy.
                                                             650 _2        ‡a Xerostomia ‡x etiology.
                                                             650 _2        ‡a Sjogren's Syndrome ‡x complications.
                                                             650 _2        ‡a Salivary Glands ‡x secretion.
                                                             650 _2        ‡a Electric Stimulation Therapy.

                                                      Joshua A. Parker • LIS417: Subject Cataloging & Classification (Joudrey) • Simmons College GSLIS • 4 December 2007
NLM Classification & Medical Subject Headings (MeSH)
                                                      MeSH: Comparison to LCSH
                                                         MeSH designed for a specific set of
                                                          disciplines (medical sciences; associated
                                                          basic and social sciences; health
                                                          administration, etc.)
                                                            Permits much more specific description for these
                                                             fields
                                                            LCSH may also be required to adequately
                                                             describe non-medical works

                                                         MeSH documentation much more clear and
                                                          exhaustive than that provided for LCSH
                                                      Joshua A. Parker • LIS417: Subject Cataloging & Classification (Joudrey) • Simmons College GSLIS • 4 December 2007
NLM Classification & Medical Subject Headings (MeSH)
                                                      Current Use of NLM Classification & MeSH
                                                         National Library of Medicine
                                                              Maintains NLMC and MeSH

                                                         Other Medical Libraries
                                                            Academic
                                                            Hospital


                                                         MEDLINE/PubMed
                                                            http://www.pubmed.gov/
                                                            Powerful tool for using MeSH to search
                                                             biomedical literature
                                                      Joshua A. Parker • LIS417: Subject Cataloging & Classification (Joudrey) • Simmons College GSLIS • 4 December 2007
NLM Classification & Medical Subject Headings (MeSH)
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LIS417: NLM Classification and MeSH

  • 1. National Library of Medicine Classification and Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) Joshua A. Parker 4 December 2007 LIS417: Subject Cataloging & Classification (Joudrey) Graduate School of Library & Information Science Simmons College • Boston, MA
  • 2. NLM Classification & Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) The National Library of Medicine  National medical library of the United States  1836: Library of the Surgeon General's Office  1922: Army Medical Library  1956: National Library of Medicine  Largest medical collection in the world  Developed and maintains the NLM Classification and Medical Subject Headings (MeSH)  MEDLINE, PubMed, and PubMed Central  UMLS (Unified Medical Language System)  Maintains several databases of genetic information  Produces advanced bioinformatics research tools Joshua A. Parker • LIS417: Subject Cataloging & Classification (Joudrey) • Simmons College GSLIS • 4 December 2007
  • 3. NLM Classification & Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) Development & History of NLMC & MeSH  1944: Need for a new specialized medical classification system recognized  1948: Preliminary edition of the Army Medical Library Classification published  1951: First edition of Army Medical Library Classification published  1954: Subject Heading Authority List published  1960: First edition of MeSH published  Present: NLMC & MeSH updated annually and are freely available for download at www.nlm.nih.gov Joshua A. Parker • LIS417: Subject Cataloging & Classification (Joudrey) • Simmons College GSLIS • 4 December 2007
  • 4. NLM Classification & Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) NLMC: Basic Structure, Strengths, & Weaknesses  Basic Structure  Covers preclinical as well as medical sciences  35 main classes  Supplemental 19th Century Schedule  Strengths  Well-suited for most contemporary medical collections  Simple, highly enumerative structure; easy to apply  Accommodates the use of LCC for non-medical works  Problem Areas  Alternative and non-Western medicine  Public Health/Social Medicine  Not analytico-synthetic; limited descriptive potential Joshua A. Parker • LIS417: Subject Cataloging & Classification (Joudrey) • Simmons College GSLIS • 4 December 2007
  • 5. NLM Classification & Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) NLM Classification: Main Classes QS Human Anatomy WI Digestive System QT Physiology WJ Urogenital System QU Biochemistry WK Endocrine System QV Pharmacology WL Nervous System QW Microbiology and Immunology WM Psychiatry QX Parasitology WN Radiology. Diagnostic Imaging QY Clinical Pathology WO Surgery QZ Pathology WP Gynecology WQ Obstetrics W Health Professions WR Dermatology WA Public Health WS Pediatrics WB Practice of Medicine WT Geriatrics. Chronic Disease WC Communicable Diseases WU Dentistry. Oral Surgery WD Disorders of Systemic, Metabolic or WV Otolaryngology Environmental Origin, etc. WW Ophthalmology WE Musculoskeletal System WX Hospitals and Other Health Facilities WF Respiratory System WY Nursing WG Cardiovascular System WZ History of Medicine WH Hemic and Lymphatic Systems 19th Century Schedule Joshua A. Parker • LIS417: Subject Cataloging & Classification (Joudrey) • Simmons College GSLIS • 4 December 2007
  • 6. NLM Classification & Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) NMLC: Notation  Structure:  Main Class indicated by letters  Subordinate classes by ordinal numbers  Cutters; special geographic codes (Table G) The annual report of the Boston Lying-in Hospital for 1947 WX 2  Hospitals, etc. + Serial Hospital Reports .AM4  Massachusetts (from Table G) B7L6a  Cutter for author + work mark 1947  Year of publication  Arrangement  Division between preclinical & clinical topics  Rough attempt to express structural relationships Joshua A. Parker • LIS417: Subject Cataloging & Classification (Joudrey) • Simmons College GSLIS • 4 December 2007
  • 7. NLM Classification & Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) NMLC: Comparison to DDC & LCC  Notation modeled on LCC  Schedules very highly enumerative, the only supplementary schedule (sometimes) applied is Table G.  Less structured than DDC; does not strongly express relationships among classes  Some mnemonic use of numbers as in DDC QX 18.2  Parasitology. Educational materials WI 18.2  Digestive System. Educational materials WN 18.2  Radiology. Educational materials WZ 18.2  History of Medicine. Educational materials Joshua A. Parker • LIS417: Subject Cataloging & Classification (Joudrey) • Simmons College GSLIS • 4 December 2007
  • 8. NLM Classification & Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) MeSH: Basic Structure & Strengths  Structure  Poly-hierarchical • The entry for each term fully describes the location of the term using both visual trees and notation  Syndetic Structure • See Also/See Related, XR references • Entry Term/X (Used For references) • Consider Also references  Strengths  Allows for several approaches to any single term  Scope notes and annotations for every term and qualifier (subheading)  Used for both monographic literature and indexing papers published in journals Joshua A. Parker • LIS417: Subject Cataloging & Classification (Joudrey) • Simmons College GSLIS • 4 December 2007
  • 9. NLM Classification & Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) MeSH Structure Example: Alzheimer Disease DISEASES PSYCHIATRY & PSYCHOLOGY Nervous System Diseases Mental Disorders Central Nervous System Diseases Delirium, Dementia, Neurodegenerative Amnestic, Cognitive Diseases Disorders Brain Diseases Tauopathies Dementia Alzheimer Disease Joshua A. Parker • LIS417: Subject Cataloging & Classification (Joudrey) • Simmons College GSLIS • 4 December 2007
  • 10. NLM Classification & Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) MeSH Structure Example: Sjögren's Syndrome DISEASES Eye Musculoskeletal Skin and Connective Immune System Stomatognathic Diseases Diseases Tissue Diseases Diseases Diseases Connective Tissue Mouth Diseases Lacrimal Apparatus Joint Diseases Diseases Diseases Autoimmune Rheumatic Diseases Diseases Salivary Gland Arthritis Diseases Dry Eye Syndromes Arthritis, Rheumatoid Xerostomia Sjogren's Syndrome Joshua A. Parker • LIS417: Subject Cataloging & Classification (Joudrey) • Simmons College GSLIS • 4 December 2007
  • 11. NLM Classification & Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) MeSH: Characteristics of the Vocabulary  Extremely specific and exhaustive for medical and medically-related topics  Vocabulary designed to treat each term consistently in comparison to other parallel terms  Limited subject field helps maintain internal coherence  Particularly powerful when used with NLM's MEDLINE/PubMed, allowing for the construction of very focused searches Joshua A. Parker • LIS417: Subject Cataloging & Classification (Joudrey) • Simmons College GSLIS • 4 December 2007
  • 12. NLM Classification & Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) MeSH: Facilities for Coordination  Use of Qualifiers  Each qualifier has a note detailing its use parasitology (A, B1, B2, B6, C, E7, F3, J2) PS, parasitol Used with animals, higher plants, organs, and diseases for parasitic factors. In diseases, it is not used if the parasitic involvement is implicit in the diagnosis.  The description of each MeSH term includes a list of allowable qualifiers  Application of multiple terms 245 00 ‡a Salivary electrostimulation in Sjogren's syndrome. 650 _2 ‡a Xerostomia ‡x therapy. 650 _2 ‡a Xerostomia ‡x etiology. 650 _2 ‡a Sjogren's Syndrome ‡x complications. 650 _2 ‡a Salivary Glands ‡x secretion. 650 _2 ‡a Electric Stimulation Therapy. Joshua A. Parker • LIS417: Subject Cataloging & Classification (Joudrey) • Simmons College GSLIS • 4 December 2007
  • 13. NLM Classification & Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) MeSH: Comparison to LCSH  MeSH designed for a specific set of disciplines (medical sciences; associated basic and social sciences; health administration, etc.)  Permits much more specific description for these fields  LCSH may also be required to adequately describe non-medical works  MeSH documentation much more clear and exhaustive than that provided for LCSH Joshua A. Parker • LIS417: Subject Cataloging & Classification (Joudrey) • Simmons College GSLIS • 4 December 2007
  • 14. NLM Classification & Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) Current Use of NLM Classification & MeSH  National Library of Medicine  Maintains NLMC and MeSH  Other Medical Libraries  Academic  Hospital  MEDLINE/PubMed  http://www.pubmed.gov/  Powerful tool for using MeSH to search biomedical literature Joshua A. Parker • LIS417: Subject Cataloging & Classification (Joudrey) • Simmons College GSLIS • 4 December 2007
  • 15. NLM Classification & Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) Bibliography [1] Army Medical Library. Classification: Medicine. Preclinical Sciences, QS-QZ. Medicine and Related Subjects, W. 1st ed. Washington: U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1951. ———. Classification: Medicine. Preclinical Sciences, QS-QZ. Medicine and Related Subjects, W. Prelim., 1948 ed. Washington: U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1949. Coletti, M. H. and H. L. Bleich. quot;Medical Subject Headings used to Search the Biomedical Literature.quot; Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association: JAMIA 8, no. 4 (Jul-Aug, 2001): 317-323 (accessed November 17, 2007). Cunningham, Eileen R., Eleanor G. Steinke, and Mary Louise Gladish. Classification for Medical Literature. 5th ed. Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press, 1967. Gault, L. V., M. Shultz, and K. J. Davies. quot;Variations in Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) Mapping: From the Natural Language of Patron Terms to the Controlled Vocabulary of Mapped Lists.quot; Journal of the Medical Library Association: JMLA 90, no. 2 (Apr, 2002): 173-180 (accessed October 6, 2007). Joshua A. Parker • LIS417: Subject Cataloging & Classification (Joudrey) • Simmons College GSLIS • 4 December 2007
  • 16. NLM Classification & Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) Bibliography [2] Hallett, K. S. quot;Separate but Equal? A System Comparison Study of MEDLINE's Controlled Vocabulary MeSH.quot; Bulletin of the Medical Library Association 86, no. 4 (Oct, 1998): 491-495 (accessed November 17, 2007). Hjørland, Birger. quot;Medical Subject Headings (MeSH), Lifeboat for Knowledge Organization. http://www.db.dk/bh/Lifeboat_KO/SPECIFIC%20DOMAINS/ medical_subject_headings.htm (accessed November 17, 2007). Jenuwine, E. S. and J. A. Floyd. quot;Comparison of Medical Subject Headings and Text-Word Searches in MEDLINE to Retrieve Studies on Sleep in Healthy Individuals.quot; Journal of the Medical Library Association: JMLA 92, no. 3 (Jul, 2004): 349-353 (accessed November 17, 2007). Lindberg, Donald A. B. and Robert Mehnert. quot;National Library of Medicine.quot; In Encyclopedia of Library and Information Science, edited by Miriam A. Drake. 2nd ed., 2013-2022. New York: Marcel Dekker, 2003 (accessed October 6, 2007). Lipscomb, Carolyn E. quot;Medical Subject Headings (MeSH).quot; Bulletin of the Medical Library Association 88, no. 3 (2000): 265-266 (accessed October 6, 2007). Joshua A. Parker • LIS417: Subject Cataloging & Classification (Joudrey) • Simmons College GSLIS • 4 December 2007
  • 17. NLM Classification & Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) Bibliography [3] Lowe, H. J. and G. O. Barnett. quot;Understanding and using the Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) Vocabulary to Perform Literature Searches.quot; JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association 271, no. 14 (Apr 13, 1994): 1103-1108 (accessed November 17, 2007). Muench, Eugene V. Biomedical Subject Headings :A Reconciliation of National Library of Medicine (MeSH) and Library of Congress Subject Headings. 2nd ed. Hamden, Conn.: Shoe String Press, 1979. National Library of Medicine. quot;Medical Subject Headings.quot; http://www.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/ (accessed November 17, 2007). ———. quot;NLM Classification 2007.quot; http://www.nlm.nih.gov/class/ (accessed November 17, 2007). ———. Medical Subject Headings: Annotated Alphabetic List. Springfield, Va.: National Technical Information Service, distributor, 2003. ———. National Library of Medicine Classification: A Scheme for the Shelf Arrangement of Library Materials in the Field of Medicine and its Related Sciences. NIH Publication. 5th , rev ed. Bethesda, Md.; Washington, DC: U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service, National Institutes of Health, National Library of Medicine, 1999. Joshua A. Parker • LIS417: Subject Cataloging & Classification (Joudrey) • Simmons College GSLIS • 4 December 2007
  • 18. NLM Classification & Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) Bibliography [4] ———. Medical Subject Headings. Bethesda, Md.: U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service, National Institutes of Health, National Library of Medicine, 1960. Olson, Tony and Gary Strawn. quot;Mapping the LCSH and MeSH Systems.quot; Information Technology and Libraries 16, no. 1 (1997): 5-19 (accessed November 17, 2007). O'Rourke, Alan J., Andrew Booth, and Nigel Ford. quot;Another Fine MeSH: Clinical Medicine Meets Information Science.quot; Journal of Information Science 25, no. 4 (1999): 275-281 (accessed November 17, 2007). Wineburgh-Freed, Maggie and Norris Medical Library. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) and NLM Classification for Catalogers: A Syllabus. 2nd ed. Los Angeles, CA: Norris Medical Library, University of Southern California, 1997. Womack, Kristina R. quot;Conformity for Conformity's Sake? the Choice of a Classification System and a Subject Heading System in Academic Health Sciences Libraries.quot; Cataloging & Classification Quarterly 42, no. 1 (2006): 93-115 (accessed October 6, 2007). Joshua A. Parker • LIS417: Subject Cataloging & Classification (Joudrey) • Simmons College GSLIS • 4 December 2007