This third edition of Taylor's modern classic continues to articulate the theory, principles, standards, and tools behind information organization. As with previous editions, it begins with strong justification for the continued importance of organizing principles and practice. Following a broad oveContinue
This third edition of Taylor's modern classic continues to articulate the theory, principles, standards, and tools behind information organization. As with previous editions, it begins with strong justification for the continued importance of organizing principles and practice. Following a broad overview of the concept and its role in human endeavors, Taylor and Joudrey provide a detailed and insightful discussion of such basic retrieval tools as inventories, bibliographies, catalogs, indexes, finding aids, registers, databases, major bibliographic utilities, and other organizing entities; and subsequently trace the development of the organization of recorded information in Western civilization from 2000 B.C.E. to the present. Standards of codification (MARC, SGML, and various DTDs), controlled vocabularies and ontologies, and Web 2.0 technologies are but a sample of its extensive topical coverage. Special to this edition: BLrestructured and expanded sections on metadata (description, access, and access control) and subject analysis and aboutness. BLsignificant revisions to sections dealing with indexing and abstracting, systems and system design, and authority control (especially FRAR.) BLimproved coverage of archives and archival finding aids, museums and galleries, and digital libraries Still the title of choice for students and professionals eager to embrace the heritage, immediacy, and future of this fascinating field of study.
About The Author
ARLENE G. TAYLOR is professor emerita, School of Information Sciences, University of Pittsburgh, and author of several works on cataloging and classification and authority control. She has received ALA's Margaret Mann Citation in Cataloging and Classification and the ALA Highsmith Library Literature Award.
DANIEL N. JOUDREY is an assistant professor in the Graduate School of Library and Information Science, Simmons College, Boston, Massachusetts, where he teaches information organization and cataloging. His research interests include aboutness determination, subject access to information, and cataloging education.
Table of Contents
List of Figures
Preface
Acknowledgments by Arlene G. Taylor
Acknowledgments by Daniel N. Joudrey
Chapter 1: Organization of Recorded Information
Chapter 2: Retrieval Tools
Chapter 3: Development of the Organization of Recorded Information in Western Civilization
Chapter 4: Metadata
Chapter 5: Encoding Standards
Chapter 6: Systems and System Design
Chapter 7: Metadata: Description
Chapter 8: Metadata: Access and Authority Control
Chapter 9: Subject Analysis
Chapter 10: Systems for Vocabulary Control
Chapter 11: Systems for Categorization
Conclusion
Appendix A: An Approach to Subject Analysis
Appendix B: Arrangement of Physical Information Resources
Appendix C: Arrangement of Metadata Displays
Glossary
Selected Bibliography
Index
LilyRaven 
I admit it is probably "the best" (and the only) textbook that's come out in the recent years - that is, if you are to choose only one required textbook for an introductory class like this. But honestly I do not like this book at all. Being an introductory text, some chapters are too difficult for n ... (continue)
I admit it is probably "the best" (and the only) textbook that's come out in the recent years - that is, if you are to choose only one required textbook for an introductory class like this. But honestly I do not like this book at all. Being an introductory text, some chapters are too difficult for novices (e.g., the chapters on encoding standards and metadata) and some are too shallow (e.g., subject analysis, arrangement & display, etc). And speaking as an instructor I also found the order of chapters problematic. I personally would place the chapter of encoding standards after the chapters on subject and descriptive cataloging. Perhaps the biggest problem of this book is its use of "big words" that make the text looks more "modern" and advanced but can totally screw up inexperienced students. Why scare students with words like "encoding standards" and "metadata" first, and then try very hard to make them understand we're really talking about really simple ideas like cataloging rules, classification tables, or record/content structures?
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