TABLE OF CONTENTS:

• Introduction to the LIV
  • History
  • Scope, Function and Format
  • Acknowledgements

• New Postable Terms
  • New LIV Terms

• Deleted Terms

• Sample Entries and Reference Examples

• Suggestions for the User
  • Alphabetization
  • Direct Entry
  • Specificity of Indexing
  • Scope Notes
  • Corporate Entities - Exceptions
  • Subdivisions of General Application
  • Geographic Subdivisions
  • American States
  • Online Consultation and Retrieval

• Manual for Building and Maintaining the Legislative Indexing Vocabulary
  • Term Selection
  • Singular vs. Plural
  • Abbreviated Word Forms
  • Hyphenization
  • Synonyms and Quasi-Synonyms
  • Use References
  • Term Definition
  • Cross Reference Structure
  • Geographic Subdivisions
  • Geographic Terms in the Legislative Indexing Vocabulary
  • Categories of Terms Omitted

• Subdivisions of General Application

• Guidelines for the Submission of Candidate Indexing Terms

• Top Terms and Top Term Clusters

• Top Term Clusters: Complete Listing Caution: Large File - 207K

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Last Update Oct. 14, 1997