Indexing and Abstracting in Theory and Practice - Hardcover

Lancaster, F. Wilfrid

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1856042685 ISBN 13: 9781856042680

Publisher: Library Association Publishing, 1998

Synopsis

This updated book is intended primarily as a text to be used in teaching indexing and abstracting in schools of library and information science. It should 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. This second edition is as relevant as the first which won the 1992 ASIS Best Information Science Book Award. While concentrating on indexing and abstracting as practised by published indexing and abstracting services in paper or electronic form, the text emphasises that the principles of indexing and abstacting for library catalogues are the same and the book should be of interest and benefit to those concerned with improving subject access in online catalogues. It also features indexing and abstracting exercises to guide the practitioner.

About this title

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: 1998
• ISBN 10: 1856042685
• ISBN 13: 9781856042680
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 336