The Organization of Information : Second Edition (Library and Information Science Text Series)

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Summary: Good introduction
Review: 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.

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Summary: Treatment of LCSH in text
Review: 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."

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Summary: Treatment of LCSH in text
Review: 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. To understand the inventions in organization of today, we must analyze the inventions of yesterday. In that respect, people of the future will need to study what we have today.

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Summary: In Plain English (not jargon)
Review: Want to know what your computer people are babbling on about when they use phrases like "GILS" or "Dublin Core?" Tired of hearing explanations of TEI and metadata that only leave you more confused than when you started? This is the book for you. Yes, there's more to the book than this, but Chapters 4 and 5 (that's all the further I've gotten today--but I just had to write now) are worth the price of admission. Thank you, Ms. Taylor, for finally putting these concepts I've been hearing for the last 2 years into a framework that I can actually understand! My boss is now running across the hall to my office every time she hears me say "Oh, I get it!" so I can explain whatever my newest understanding is to her, too.