Rita Marcella, Arthur Maltby

The Future of Classification

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 160
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. März 2000
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 404g
• ISBN-13: 9780566079924
• ISBN-10: 0566079925
• Artikelnr.: 57045420

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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.