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The author, a long-standing indexer and teacher of indexing, notes that specific indexing is nowadays generally considered to be the best approach for book indexes, but goes on to look at why specific indexing can cause problems to indexer and user alike, and to examine whether a classified approach still has something to offer. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The purposes of this study are (1) to investigate how spacing in the Korean script fields in bibliographic records affects retrieval in various OPAC systems and (2) to propose ways to deal with these problems. We conclude that, from the end-user perspective, the systems using morphological indexing are harder to use than the systems using single character indexing where spaces had no impact on retrieval. We also recommend using both n-gram and morphological indexing, adopting good ranking systems, developing active education programs on this issue, and providing cross references between Chinese and Korean characters. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article is the third in a series. This one discusses an archival library classification and cataloguing system based around a hierarchical system of some 240 classes with notations consisting of two and three digit numbers. The author describes a "Fix Program" that was used to facilitate the online cataloguing, which was accomplished in about two hours.