9781563089763

Book Description: ABC-CLIO, United States, 2003. Hardback. Book Condition: New. 2nd. 267 x 190 mm. Brand New Book with Free Worldwide Delivery. 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. Bookseller Inventory # AAJ9781563089763

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Book Description: ABC-CLIO. Hardback. Book Condition: new. BRAND NEW, Organization of Information (2nd), Arlene G. Taylor, 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. Bookseller Inventory # B9781563089763

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Book Description: Libraries Unltd Inc, 2003. Hardcover. Book Condition: Brand New. 2nd edition. 417 pages. 10.50x7.50x1.50 inches. In Stock. Bookseller Inventory # __1563089769

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