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The Organization of Information (Library and Information Science Text Series)

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More and more information comes into the world every day, and if it can't be managed, there is little point to it. Now in an updated and expanded third edition, "The Organization of Information" is a library science manual focusing on the modern advancements and how they affect libraries and other key compounds of information. Libraries, archives, museums, even the internet are all discussed in the forms they are used to store the massive amounts of information and data the world produces. With chapters on the many complex methods one must deal with to maintain the integrity of original documents, items, and other important subjects, "The Organization of Information" is complete and comprehensive in its application. "The Organization of Information" is enhanced with bibliographies, indexes, glossaries, and more, making it an absolute must for any archive which wants to serve its purpose well.

I purchased this textbook for a class on Information Organization. Although the content is detail-heavy and is not meant to be read cover to cover, it is a good resource that student librarians, information professionals, and those interested in the subject will be satisfied with. Topics include the history of cataloging and classification, information retrieval systems, metadata, subject analysis, and authority control. The Semantic Web and the future of information organization on the internet are also discussed throughout the text.

This book was a textbook for an information science course that I took. The topics are pretty self-evident from the title. The book covered many good topics that any information professional should be familiar with. Chapter titles included: retrieval tools, history of organization of recorded information, metadata, encoding standards, system and system design, subject analysis, controlled vocabularies, and classification systems. Overall full of god information, provided overviews of many topics, and included many notes and suggestions for further readings.

I needed this for one of my Library science classes, and it did not disappoint; Loads of interesting information and detailed explanations. This was definitely an asset in my class.

I spent the first half of the semester actually reading the assigned chapters in this book, only to come away with a muddy concoction of terms and acronyms floating around in my brain. I consider myself a fairly intelligent person and I almost never have a hard time comprehending what I read, so I assumed that this information must just be really confusing. Well, then I went through all of the course power points one after the other (I took the class online) and guess what? This information is super simple and makes perfect sense when explained by people who know how to teach. My professor was searching desperately for a better text than this one and now I can see why.

Oh, and on top of the muddled delivery of conceptual information, the book is just poorly written. Seriously, someone else please write a new Organization of Info textbook!

I haven't found anything in this book that I felt helped to increase my knowledge of library science by leaps and bounds.

On the other hand, it's clear, and easy-to-read.

I needed it for a class, so I didn't have much choice. Amazon had the best price.

I had to buy this book for a class. It was in perfect condition.