Organizing Knowledge: An Introduction to Managing Access to Information by J. E. Rowley

by Jennifer Rowley

For its third edition, this text on knowledge organization and retrieval has been revised and restructured to accommodate the increased significance of electronic information resources. With new sections on topics such as information retrieval via the Web, metadata and managing information retrieval systems, the book explains principles relating to hybrid print-based and electronic networked environments experienced by today's users. The book is an accessible introduction to knowledge organization for both undergraduate and postgraduate students of information management and information systems.

Genres: Nonfiction, School, Library Science, Textbooks, Reference, Grad School

Paperback

First published April 1, 1987

Reviews

[Charlotte]

a very useful guide to librarianing ( It's a word!)

[Vidu]

Read for GLIS 619: Info Behaviour and Resources

[Lindsay]

A well-written, well-organized textbook that serves its purpose. We actually used and read it in class.

[Benjamin Fasching-Gray]

I found myself thinking at each chapter, "oooh. That's the kind of work I *really* want to do." I found this much easier to get through than Introduction to Cataloging and Classification or Cataloging and Classification: An Introduction both of which I tried to read on my own, as opposed to this book which I read for a class.

By including chapters on user behavior, and context about how cataloging rules and norms developed, this book manages to take this driest of subjects and make it digestible. Also, the British-ness of it made for a more international focus, which I also appreciate.

[Danielle]

The information is great and very useful to me 3 years after I first read it. However it is not a book that is easy to digest. I had to read in chunks. I suggest marking passages and advice that you find important as you will come back to it at a later date.

[Kim]

Insanely dry and dense, making it quite hard to stick with.

[Jeffrey Babbitt]

It's not my favorite subject, and due to the nature of that subject, the book is a bit boring. But there is a little bit a dry humor that pokes its head up every now and then that helps to relieve the boredom.