Abstract

Práctica Catalográfica en el DeCS. ACIMED [online]. 1998, vol.6, n.2, pp. 93-106. ISSN 1024-9435.

Due to the failure of using adequately the thesaurus «Descriptores en Ciencias de la Salud (DeCS)» in the assignment of epigraphs during the cataloging process, a number of technical instructions are drawn. These instructions enable the librarians from the National System of Medical Sciences Information to use it as a dictionary of epigraphs because most of them do not have automatic systems for the processing of information so that they support themselves in the search and recovery procedures on the cataloging index card. The subject representation of documents through epigraphs and its basic principles are discussed as well as the rules for the coordination of epigraphs and subepigraphs and the restrictions in using some of the types of subheadings. The implementation of the annex Práctica catalográfica en el DeCS, based upon the Cataloging Practices of MeSH is recommended as a strategy to eliminate the contradictions generated by the lack of appropiate dispositions to represent all the aspects discussed in the documents and submitted to the assignment of epigraphs and subepigraphs.

Keywords : CATALOGING; THESAURI; EPIGRAPHS [utilization]; SUBEPIGRAPHS [utilization].

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