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Classification is a crucial skill for all information workers involved in organizing collections. This new edition offers fully revised and updated guidance on how to go about classifying a document from scratch. Essential Classification leads the novice classifier step by step through the basics of subject cataloguing, with an emphasis on practical document analysis and classification. It deals with fundamental questions of the purpose of classification in different situations, and the needs and expectations of end users. The reader is introduced to the ways in which document content can be assessed, and how this can best be expressed for translation into the language of specific indexing and classification systems. Fully updated to reflect changes to the major general schemes (Library of Congress, LCSH, Dewey and UDC) since the first edition, and with new chapters on working with informal classification, from folksonomies to tagging and social media, this new edition will set cataloguers on the right path.

Subject indexing --- Subject cataloging --- Classification --- Analyse documentaire --- Books --- Livres --- Subject cataloging. --- Classification of books --- Libraries --- Library classification of books --- Subject analysis --- Cataloging --- Content analysis (Communication) --- Indexing --- Books. --- klassifikasjon --- klassifikasjonsteori --- kunnskapsorganisasjon --- kunnskapsorganisering --- bibliotek --- emneordskatalogisering --- deweys desimalklassifikasjon

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Many information professionals working in small units today fail to find the published tools for subject-based organization that are appropriate to their local needs, whether they are archivists, special librarians, information officers, or knowledge or content managers. Large established standards for document description and organization are too unwieldy, unnecessarily detailed, or too expensive to install and maintain. In other cases the available systems are insufficient for a specialist environment, or don't bring things together in a helpful way. A purpose built, in-house system would seem to be the answer, but too often the skills necessary to create one are lacking. This practical text examines the criteria relevant to the selection of a subject-management system, describes the characteristics of some common types of subject tool, and takes the novice step by step through the process of creating a system for a specialist environment. The methodology employed is a standard technique for the building of a thesaurus that incidentally creates a compatible classification or taxonomy, both of which may be used in a variety of ways for document or information management. Key areas covered are: What is a thesaurus? Tools for subject access and retrieval; what a thesaurus is used for? Why use a thesaurus? Examples of thesauri; the structure of a thesaurus; thesaural relationships; practical thesaurus construction; the vocabulary of the thesaurus; building the systematic structure; conversion to alphabetic format; forms of entry in the thesaurus; maintaining the thesaurus; thesaurus software; and; the wider environment. Essential for the practising information professional, this guide is also valuable for students of library and information science.

Subject cataloging. --- Thesauri --- Analyse documentaire --- Thésaurus --- Subject headings. --- Subject tools. --- Subject headings --- Subject cataloging --- Social Sciences --- Library & Information Science --- tesaurusbygging --- tesauruskonstruksjon --- tesaurus --- klassifikasjon --- kunnskapsorganisering --- emnekatalogisering --- indeksering --- terminologi --- lærebøker --- kunnskapsorganisasjon --- 025.47 --- Encyclopedias and dictionaries --- Subject analysis --- Cataloging --- Content analysis (Communication) --- Indexing --- Controlled vocabularies (Subject headings) --- Headings, Subject --- Indexing vocabularies --- Lists of subject headings --- Structured vocabularies (Subject headings) --- Subject authorities (Information retrieval) --- Subject authority files (Information retrieval) --- Subject authority records (Information retrieval) --- Subject heading lists --- Subject headings, English --- Vocabularies, Controlled (Subject headings) --- Vocabularies, Structured (Subject headings) --- Thesauri (Controlled vocabularies) --- Authority files (Information retrieval) --- FRSAD (Conceptual model) --- Thésaurus

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Bliss Bibliographic classification. --- Bibliographic classification (System) --- Bliss classification --- Bliss's Bibliographic classification --- Classification, Bibliographic --- Classification --- Books