The Organization of Information

by Daniel N. Joudrey, Arlene G. Taylor

This fourth edition provides an updated look at information organization, featuring coverage of the Semantic Web, linked data, and EAC-CPF; new metadata models such as IFLA-LRM and RiC; and new perspectives on RDA and its implementation.

This latest edition of The Organization of Information is a key resource for anyone in the beginning stages of their LIS career as well as longstanding professionals and paraprofessionals seeking accurate, clear, and up-to-date guidance on information organization activities across the discipline. The book begins with a historical look at information organization methods, covering libraries, archives, museums, and online settings. It then addresses the types of retrieval tools used throughout the discipline—catalogs, finding aids, indexes, bibliographies, and search engines—before describing the functionality of systems, explaining the basic principles of system design, and defining how they affect information organization. The principles and functionality of metadata is next, with coverage of the types, functions, tools, and models (particularly FRBR, IFLA-LRM, RDF) and how encoding works for use and sharing—for example, MARC, XML schemas, and linked data approaches.

The latter portion of the resource describes specific activities related to the creation of metadata for resources. These chapters offer an overview of the major issues, challenges, and standards used in the information professions, addressing topics such as resource description (including standards found in RDA, DACS, and CCO), access points, authority control, subject analysis, controlled vocabularies—notably LCSH, MeSH, Sears, and AAT—and categorization systems such as DDC and LCC.

Genres: Nonfiction, School, Textbooks, Grad School

745 pages, Kindle Edition

Published November 27, 2017

Reviews

[Haley Christianson]

If I have to read a book this large I’m gonna make sure I get credit!

[Rebecca · Rating 2 out of 5]

Some chapters are engaging and make sense. Unfortunately the text book is dry, dense, has more acronyms than I can ever remember, and explanations that often left me confused and overwhelmed.

[Sarah · Rating 4 out of 5]

For those of us in an MLIS, this is boring, dry, and redundant. However, it is filled with information needed. I learned quite a bit.

[Fiona]

If I’m gonna read such a long book for school, I’ve gotta get goodreads credit for it lol

[Mack]

wrapping up my first semester let's go

[Lizzy · Rating 3 out of 5]

not the most boring textbook I've read for the MLIS but it's not exactly a fun read

[Adam · Rating 3 out of 5]

Another week or so and that'll be the end of grad school!

[Lauren]

yes, this is a textbook. I read the whole thing, I'm counting it towards my reading goal.

[Inga Schmidt]

Couldn't put it down!!

[Maggie McDonald]

this took up so much time of course its counting to my good reads goal.

[Sarah Wahl · Rating 3 out of 5]

thank god I am done with this textbook because I am so done lugging it around. I think that there were portions of this book that were helpful. On the other hand, there were many chapters that I just skimmed because there were too many acronyms or it felt like everything was just dragged on and on and on etc. Most of what I found useful was in the appendix or it was just written as charts or examples. goodbye the organization of information textbook, smell ya later 👋

[Mckynzie King · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book is very detailed, but I feel it provides a lot of irrelevant information. The chapters are a little long for my taste, but there are crucial elements used in my library science masters degree.

[Jay · Rating 4 out of 5]

Did I read, reread, reference, and highlight this entire text multiple times? Yes, Yes I did. Was it entirely worth every second? Yes.

[Elley Shin · Rating 4 out of 5]

this is a textbook .

i had to read all of the chapters for this class as we went through each one per week. but yay! classes are now done

[Heather Cooper]

If hardtack were a book. . .

[Alyssa Garza · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book did its job, teaching me about organizational systems, not that I enjoyed it.

[Megan · Rating 2 out of 5]

It is a textbook