- Paperback: 280 pages
- Publisher: Libraries Unlimited (March 1999)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1563084988
- ISBN-13: 978-1563084980
- Product Dimensions: 25.5 x 17.7 x 2 cm
- Shipping Weight: 667 g
- Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #1,933,347 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Like its previous edition, this second edition examines many of the tools, standards, theories, and principles underlying the organization of information in different types of environments. Chapters are devoted to the organization and development of recorded information, retrieval tools, encoding standards, subject analysis, systems for vocabulary control and categorization, and arrangement and display. This edition offers readers a new chapter on metadata and new sections treating digital libraries, information architecture, knowledge management, pathfinders, search engines, and bibliographic classifications and taxonomies, among other topics. Chapters have been updated, and many have been revised and expanded. The chapter about systems and system designs is a prime example, having been rewritten to reflect changes within the field and now featured more prominently in the book. These changes yield an extremely well-designed, structured, and articulated work, noteworthy for its clarity and usability. A fine contribution to the field of library and information science. RBB
Copyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.
Copyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.
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?Arlene Taylor's The Organization of Information, which should be considered a classic text in the field, combines to-the-point, articulate discussion with explicit concrete examples relevant to the multiple concerns addressed by the title. ...a classic survey of how information is organized. It is rich in its clarity of description and indispensable for those wishing to gain a general, thorough knowledge and I recommend adding it to your collection.?-Journal of Access Services
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5.0 out of 5 stars
Good introduction,
This review is from: The Organization of Information (Paperback)
I used this book for an introductory lesson on descriptive cataloguing in library, archival and information science. It worked very well for giving an overview of the problems in just this interdisciplinary approach. A lot of examples are given and explained in an understandable way. There are some reduncancies but this helps for the understanding.
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Treatment of LCSH in text,
By A Customer
This review is from: The Organization of Information (Paperback)
The customer who said that "Library of Congress Subject Headings are presented as a thesaurus" in this book is incorrect. Three kinds of controlled vocabulary are presented and distinctions are made among them. Thesauri are clearly distinguished from subject heading lists, and Library of Congress Subject Headings are presented under the subheading "Subject Heading Lists."
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In Plain English (not jargon),
By A Customer
This review is from: The Organization of Information (Paperback)
Want to know what your computer people are babbling on about when they use phrases like "GILS" or "Dublin Core?" Tired of hearing explanations of TEI and metadata that only leave you more confused than when you started? This is the book for you. Yes, there's more to the book than this, but Chapters 4 and 5 (that's all the further I've gotten today--but I just had to write now) are worth the price of admission. Thank you, Ms. Taylor, for finally putting these concepts I've been hearing for the last 2 years into a framework that I can actually understand! My boss is now running across the hall to my office every time she hears me say "Oh, I get it!" so I can explain whatever my newest understanding is to her, too.
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