Publisher | ABC-CLIO |
ISBN 13 | 9781563089695 |
Book Description | The extensively revised and completely updated second edition of this popular textbook provides LIS practitioners and students with a vital guide to the organization of information. After a broad overview of the concept and its role in human endeavors, Taylor proceeds to a detailed and insightful discussion of such basic retrieval tools as bibliographies, catalogs, indexes, finding aids, registers, databases, major bibliographic utilities, and other organizing entities. After tracing the development of the organization of recorded information in Western civilization from 2000 B.C.E. to the present, the author addresses topics that include encoding standards (MARC, SGML, and various DTDs), metadata (description, access, and access control), verbal subject analysis including controlled vocabularies and ontologies, classification theory and methodology, arrangement and display, and system design. |
Editorial Review | ?Arlene Taylor....is eminently qualified to write about the organization of information....The book is a highly recommended purchase for all institutions that teach library organizational skills and for others who wish to explore a broadly based view of the organization of information or to keep abreast of the latest developments in technical services.?-Technicalities |
About the Author | 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. |
Language | English |
Author | Arlene G. Taylor |
Edition Number | 2 |
Publication Date | 30 Nov 2003 |
Number of Pages | 448 |
The Organization Of Information paperback english - 30 Nov 2003