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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.

The Organization of Information remains the title of choice for students and professionals eager to embrace the heritage, immediacy, and future of this fascinating field of study.

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• List of Figures
• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• Acknowledgments
• 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

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Taylor intends this book to be preparatory to traditional texts on cataloging and classification. She reviews why and how recorded information is organized in libraries, archives, museums, and art galleries. She then turns to the methods of retrieving information, such as through bibliographies and catalogs, and methods of encoding information (e.g., MARC and SGML), the metadata related to description and access, subject analysis by means of words, and classification as a further means of subject access. A chapter on systems for information storage and retrieval concludes a book that well fills the need for a single-volume introduction on its subject.

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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 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.