The Organization of Information

Heavy, tedious reading but it has everything I need in very clear language. The content is just difficult, not the writing. I prefer this textbook to having to read 50 scholarly articles; I thank my professor for using this medium.

Informative, but harder to read than the Chan, which covered much of the same material. Part of it might have been the font. Good examples, though.

Clearly explains technical information and includes humorous sentences.

It was difficult to get through but it did its job. There is a newer edition of this book available and perhaps it is better. Taylor does do a good job explaining a very dry subject to those who may not have a copy of the AACR2 with them. That may be a miracle in itself, but even still, it was very dry.

Similar to Taylor's Introduction to Cataloguing and Classification. This one takes a broader view, and the chapters are reasonably readable. However, the book could do with a little life! It rarely engages.

While I certainly don't expect page-turning excitement in a book introducing the concepts of metadata and cataloging, I do expect better organization. Concepts not introduced until later in the book are discussed too early on, which leads to quite a bit of flipping around. I guess I expect more organization in a book like this.

A book I read for cataloging class. Textbooks have no reason to be so readable and easy to use. Or maybe they do? One of the unexpected delights of cataloging class even if I don’t understand half of what I’m learning.