

Loading... The Organization of Information (2009)by Arlene G. Taylor
![]() None No current Talk conversations about this book. Comprehensive textbook, with just the right mix for information classification, including history (the hand written card catalogs) and modern database coding. Has a lot of technical data and sometimes requires reading and re-reading passages. An interesting overview of the various methods used to organize information. Clearly explains technical information and includes humorous sentences. This is good book for gaining an entry level understanding of the organization of information, cataloging and metadata. no reviews | add a review
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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. No library descriptions found.
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