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The Future of Classification
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Artikel-Nr:
9780566079924
Veröffentl:
2000
Erscheinungsdatum:
02.03.2000
Seiten:
162
Autor:
Rita Marcella
Gewicht:
404 g
Format:
234x156x11 mm
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
Rita Marcella, co-author with Robert Newton of A New Manual of Classification, also published by Gower, is Reader and Deputy Head of the School of Information and Media at Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen, UK. She became a lecturer at the university after working as a cataloguer and classifier in an academic library. Now retired, Arthur Maltby was formerly, amongst other posts, head of a university information studies department and an adviser on education and libraries at the Scottish Office. He has written or edited nine other books and numerous articles on topics as diverse as information retrieval, Irish history and Shakespeare.
Provides an exploration of the future direction of classification, with contributions from a distinguished list of practitioners and theorists who have made a mark upon the field of classification.
Contents: Introduction, Rita Marcella and Arthur Maltby; Do we still need classification?, Eric Hunter; Organizing knowledge: the need for system and unity, Arthur Maltby and Rita Marcella; Can classification yield an evaluative principle for information retrieval?, Julian Warner; Information technology and new directions, Robert Newton; Classification and the Internet, Alan MacLennan; The future of faceted classification, A.C. Foskett; The Dewey Decimal Classification in the twenty-first century, Joan S. Mitchell; UDC in the twenty-first century, I.C. McIlwaine; The Library of Congress Classification, Lois Mai Chan and Theodora L. Hodges; Sources for investigating the development of bibliographic classification, M.P. Satija; Index.