The Organization of Information: Third Edition (Library & Information Science Text) - Softcover

Taylor, Arlene G.; Joudrey, Daniel N.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 159158700X ISBN 13: 9781591587002

Verlag: Libraries Unlimited, 2008

Inhaltsangabe

This third edition of Taylor's modern classic continues to articulate the theory, principles, standards, and tools behind information organization.

As with previous editions, it begins with strong justification for the continued importance of organizing principles and practice. Following a broad overview of the concept and its role in human endeavors, Taylor and Joudrey provide a detailed and insightful discussion of such basic retrieval tools as inventories, bibliographies, catalogs, indexes, finding aids, registers, databases, major bibliographic utilities, and other organizing entities; and subsequently trace the development of the organization of recorded information in Western civilization from 2000 B.C.E. to the present. Standards of codification (MARC, SGML, and various DTDs), controlled vocabularies and ontologies, and Web 2.0 technologies are but a sample of its extensive topical coverage.

The Organization of Information remains the title of choice for students and professionals eager to embrace the heritage, immediacy, and future of this fascinating field of study.

• Restructured and expanded sections on metadata (description, access, and access control) and subject analysis and aboutness

• Significant revisions to sections dealing with indexing and abstracting, systems and system design, and authority control (especially FRAR)

• Expanded coverage of archives and archival finding aids, museums and galleries, and digital libraries

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Arlene G. Taylor is professor emerita, School of Information Sciences, University of Pittsburgh, and author of several works on cataloging and classification and authority control. She has received ALA's Margaret Mann Citation in Cataloging and Classification and the ALA Highsmith Library Literature Award.

Daniel N. Joudrey is assistant professor in the Graduate School of Library and Information Science, Simmons College, Boston, Massachusetts, where he teaches information organization and cataloging. His research interests include aboutness determination, subject access to information, and cataloging education.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Libraries Unlimited
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2008
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 159158700X
• ISBN 13: 9781591587002
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Auflage: 3
• Anzahl der Seiten: 540
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