The Organization of Information, 2nd Edition (Library and Information Science Text Series) - Softcover

Taylor, Arlene G.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1563089696 ISBN 13: 9781563089695

Publisher: Libraries Unlimited Inc, 2003

Synopsis

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.

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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.

Edition details

• Publisher: Libraries Unlimited Inc
• Publication date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1563089696
• ISBN 13: 9781563089695
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 448