Access enhanced: Improving discoverability through the application of Library of Congress Subject Headings

Library of Congress Subject Headings are used in library catalogs as a way of providing uniformity that improves access to materials. This project was geared toward improving access to the collection of a specialized library - University of North Carolina's Park Library in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication. With a focus on applying supplemental terms that would benefit keyword searching, subject headings were applied to 215 undergraduate honors theses. Observations are also made concerning the problems inherent to controlled vocabularies, such as bias