Indexing and Abstracting in Theory and Practice - Hardcover

Lancaster, F. Wilfrid

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1856040046 ISBN 13: 9781856040044

Publisher: Library Association Publishing, 1991

Synopsis

This book is intended primarily as a text to be used in teaching indexing and abstracting in schools of library and information science. It will also be of value to all individuals and institutions involved in training for information retrieval and related activities, including librarians, managers of information centres, and database producers. The similarities rather than the differences of indexing and abstracting are stressed. Chapter headings include: pre-co-ordinate indexes, consistency of indexing, quality of indexing, abstracts: types and functions, writing the abstract, natural language in information retrieval, automatic indexing. There are exercises in both indexing and abstracting procedures.

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Review

'This is primarily a text for teaching in schools of library and information science. It is also invaluable reading for anyone developing a search engine or planning to publish a bibliographic [tool.]' MANAGING INFORMATION

About the Author

F W Lancaster is Professor Emeritus in Library and Information Science at the Graduate School of Library & Information Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA. He is the author or editor of many other publications, several of which have received national awards from the American Society for Information Science and the American Library Association. These include the UK editions of If you Want to Evaluate your Library, and of Technology and Management in Library and Information Services for Facet Publishing.

Edition details

• Publisher: Library Association Publishing
• Publication date: 1991
• ISBN 10: 1856040046
• ISBN 13: 9781856040044
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 352