Topic: Basketball Fundamentals
(1)Author: Scott, John (John Williams)
Title: Step-by-Step Basketball Fundamentals for the Player and Coach
Edition: Rev. ED
Place of Publication: Englewood Cliffs, NJ
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Date of Publication: 1989'
(2)Location: Book Stacks
Call #: GV885 .S38 1989
Status: On The Shelf
(3)Edition: Rev. ed
Descript: xi, 174 p. : ill. ; 23 cm
Note: Includes index
Subject: Basketball Basketball -- Coaching
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a)Do you have more or fewer entries with your subject heading search than with your keyword search?
I find more entries when I put in a keyword search. Putting in a keyword gave me many results to different books and topics.
b)As you examine these results, are they more on target than the results you retrieved from your keyword search?
The results are not much on target because they were just keywords. The results listed many topics from the keywords and since the keyword was not specific it didn't really give a specific topic.
c) Why?
Because the keyword was too general.
*The difference between a keyword search and a subject heading search is a keyword search is something much more general, and subject heading search is more specific and something that you really know what you are looking for/
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I don't know what keywords you used, so it's not possible to follow exactly what you did.
ReplyDeleteYour topic isn't particularly complex, so your keywords may be the same or similar to the subject headings and that won't give you a clear picture of the advantages of subject headings over keywords, but you seem to have the general idea that subject headings are more specific.
Subject headings are advantageous over keywords for two reasons:
1. because subject headings are prescribed, that is the structure of each heading is pre-set and must be used in that form, the subject headings assigned to books are in the same form, resulting in like materials carrying exactly the same headings.
2. because human beings read these books and assign these exact same headings, the materials sit together on the shelves and appear together under the same subject headings.