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  <title><![CDATA[The Organization of Information: Second Edition (Library and Information Science Text Series)]]></title>
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  <default_description>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.</default_description>
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      <name><![CDATA[Arlene G. Taylor]]></name>
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  <read_at>Sat Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Ha... should have read this more during library school, but since I understand after gaining experience of what being a librarian is all about, I actually WANT to read this book.]]></body>
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  <date_added>Tue Oct 21 07:46:02 -0700 2008</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[This was actually a text I needed for a an introductory Information Science class. For a course that is centered on organization, it would have helped immensely if the text used had been well-organized, clear and did not contradict itself or leave things un-explained, or explained poorly.  There wer...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/35842988">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I include this book only as a means of including every book published by Libaries Unlimited. In pursuit of the MLIS, I have been ordered to purchase no fewer than four text-books published by LU. I say with complete, non-inebriated candor that every successive book from LU has set a lower bar for in...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/15019040">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sun Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Modern researchers will be much more efficient at researching databases and other sources of high-quality, dependable information if they understand how information is organized.  I read this for class but actually learned a great deal that might be useful to the general public in an information soc...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/8312457">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[My textbook, but I'm reading it like any other books so that I enjoy it, and not because I have to read it for the sake of exam. Therefore, this book will remain in &quot;currently-reading&quot; shelf for the whole semester.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[It is what it is -- entirely resourceful, full of information, natch, and a not entirely thrilling read. ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Hooray for the MLS, which brought this compulsively unreadable but authoritative resource into my home.]]></body>
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    <review id="19667809">
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    <body><![CDATA[Textbook.  For a book about organizing information, it was very poorly organized. ]]></body>
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    <review id="45589744">
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  <read_at>Tue Jul 07 21:30:32 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is a textbook for my course titled Information Organization and Retrieval.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[So far, this seems to be a pretty accessible, well-written textbook.  ]]></body>
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    <review id="20878690">
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    <body><![CDATA[I learned about the organization of information.]]></body>
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    <review id="12637719">
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    <body><![CDATA[Buku yang penuh perjuangan bersama bu Irma....:p]]></body>
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    <review id="11850724">
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  <read_at>Sat Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[The Dewey Decimal system and so much more!  ]]></body>
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    <review id="45079126">
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    <body><![CDATA[Cataloguing is not for me.]]></body>
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