The Organization of Information

Price: $50.00
ISBN13: 9781563089695
ISBN10: 1563089696
Book code: LU9696
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Paperback | 448 pages
Publication Date: 11/30/2003
Series: Library and Information Science Text Series

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.

CONTENTS

List of Figures

Preface

Acknowledgments

Organization of Recorded Information

Retrieval Tools

Development of the Organization of Recorded Information in Western Civilization

Encoding Standards

Systems and System Design

Metadata

Metadata: Description

Metadata: Access and Authority Control

Subject Analysis

Systems for Vocabulary Control

Systems for Categorization

Arrangement and Display

Conclusion

Appendix: Subject Analysis Application

Glossary

Selected Bibliography

Index

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.