Abstract:
The purposes of this research were to study problems of using Thai subject headings in fisheries as found by librarians and specialists in this field. 128 terms in fisheries (1.1%) were gathered from the total of 11,899 Thai subjects headings, listed in 3 manuals :- 1) Subject Headings for Thai Books by The Thai Library Association B.E. 2525 2) Subject Headings for Thai Books by Thammasat University Library. 3) Subject Headings for Thai Books by Committee on Cataloging and Classification University Libraries to prove that there was an inadequacy of Thai subject headings in fisheries, and they do not cover current terminology of the field. From the survey, it was found that some subject headings used in libraries, or suggested by librarians were general terms or an inverted phrase in the theory of subject headings; while nouns / compound words appeal to specialists in information retrieval. To keep pace with the tendency, a list of 307 Thai subject headings in fisheries was included in the research as the data for a revised and updated edition for any Thai subject headings manual.