Click on a thumbnail to go to Google Books.
Loading... The Subject Approach to Information (1969)by A. C. Foskett
None Loading...
Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. no reviews | add a review
Established as a core text for any student or professional, this book provides a highly readable, comprehensive and wise study of information analysis and retrieval. No library descriptions found. |
Current DiscussionsNonePopular covers
Google Books — Loading... GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)025.4Information Library and Information Sciences Administration; Departments Subject analysis and controlLC ClassificationRatingAverage:
Is this you?Become a LibraryThing Author. |
In spite of its lack of currency, overall the work is approachable and comprehensive. It takes the time to define library terms that are helpful to new users (heuristic vs. iterative, for example). One of the most interesting analogies in the book is the early-noted theory of information retrieval as a form of communication. In this analogy, the indexing process is considered encoding and the searching is considered decoding . This is an excellent analogy for the relationship between indexer and searcher and is a good example of how Foskett attempts to make information retrieval accessible to beginners. ( )