The Organization of Information: Second Edition (Library and Information Science Text Series) | 
 enlarge | Author: Arlene G. Taylor
Publisher: Libraries Unlimited
Category: Book
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Rating:  18 reviews
Sales Rank: 1954
Media: Paperback
Edition: 2
Pages: 448
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Dimensions (in): 10 x 7 x 1.1
ISBN: 1563089696
Dewey Decimal Number: 025
EAN: 9781563089695
Publication Date: November 30, 2003
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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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 Excellent textbook! September 21, 2005
Sarah A. Buck
14 out of 15 found this review helpful
This is an excellent textbook. It is well organized and clearly written, explaining difficult concepts in understandable language for students. It covers the history of information organization in libraries, archives, and museums, as well as tools such as inventories, bibliographies, catalogs and indexes, and methods and standards of codification; reviews the history and development of the internet; describes different kinds of databases; and discusses metadata as a theoretical and practical concept, reviewing different kinds of metadata schemes. I highly recommend it.
Good introduction May 5, 2001
Hans-Christoph Hobohm (Potsdam / Germany)
12 out of 14 found this review helpful
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.
Treatment of LCSH in text August 20, 2000
10 out of 12 found this review helpful
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."
Excellent Introductory Resource January 17, 2008
Angel (PA USA)
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
This book is informative without being a difficult read. The chapters are broken down into easy to manage sections. The author frequently uses acronyms common in the information field, but she also provides definitions. This work is definitely a keeper in my reference library.
The Organization of Information : Second Edition (Library and Information Science Text Series) (Paperback) September 21, 2005
H. Mohamed
1 out of 11 found this review helpful
The organization of information is an on-going process that has taken centuries of study and ingenuity. Tools such as catalogs, museum registers, bibliographies, and indexes are making progressions each day.
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