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crl-15844	Garrett, Jeffrey	Subject Headings in Full-Text Environments: The ECCO Experiment	2007-01-01	13	.pdf	application/pdf	6052	279	55	f the focus of bibliographic description is the artifact—the precise capture of its physical and textual facts—the focus of subject headings work is the library user and his or her content-related needs and expectations.1 Ideally, subject head- ings enable users not familiar with the literature of a field to identify and gather together relevant works, regardless of their authors, titles, disparate physical locations, and what other major topics they may treat. This article extends arguments recently presented by Gross and Taylor (2005) in two directions: first, by considering the importance of subject headings for access to historical materials; and, second, by examining the value added by subject head- ings even when the full text of a work is available online.	cache/crl-15844.pdf	txt/crl-15844.txt