Blog Posts by Subject: Thesaurus

The Great Difficulty in Assigning a Subject Heading is to Get the Pleased Expression

by Jessica Cline, Picture Collection, Stephen A. Schwarzman Building
May 9, 2018

The NYPL Picture Collection has more than 12,000 subject headings, but can only choose one per image. Here's how they make the right selection among a mountain of choices.

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