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Use this single source to uncover the origin and development of the
thesaurus The Thesaurus: Review, Renaissance, and Revision examines
the historical development of the thesaurus and the standards
employed for thesaurus construction. This book provides both the
history of thesauri and tutorials on usage to increase your
understanding of thesaurus creation, use, and evaluation. This
reference tool offers essential information on thesauri in the
digital environment, including Web sites, databases, and software.
For 50 years, the thesaurus has been a core reference book; The
Thesaurus: Review, Renaissance, and Revision celebrates this
history and speculates on the future of vocabulary-switching tools.
This book will familiarize you with contemporary and emerging
functions of thesauri, including international and multilingual
developments. The Thesaurus: Review, Renaissance, and Revision
provides information and library professionals-including indexers,
abstractors, subject catalogers, classifiers, and reference
librarians-a historical overview of the thesaurus and its past as
well as recent developments. This book also gives patrons, readers,
and researchers more effective techniques in vocabulary management
and offers insight on how thesauri are devised and compiled. This
book addresses: changing definitions, characteristics, functions,
and applications of thesauri the value of standards, evaluation,
use and review of software, and role and work of consultants during
thesauri construction and maintenance multicultural issues that
affect thesauri creation, such as mapping and interoperability
education and training The Thesaurus: Review, Renaissance, and
Revision also provides you with extensive bibliographies related to
issues and problems in thesaurus construction and design, such as
developing standards in support of electronic thesauri.
Use this single source to uncover the origin and development of the
thesaurus The Thesaurus: Review, Renaissance, and Revision examines
the historical development of the thesaurus and the standards
employed for thesaurus construction. This book provides both the
history of thesauri and tutorials on usage to increase your
understanding of thesaurus creation, use, and evaluation. This
reference tool offers essential information on thesauri in the
digital environment, including Web sites, databases, and software.
For 50 years, the thesaurus has been a core reference book; The
Thesaurus: Review, Renaissance, and Revision celebrates this
history and speculates on the future of vocabulary-switching tools.
This book will familiarize you with contemporary and emerging
functions of thesauri, including international and multilingual
developments. The Thesaurus: Review, Renaissance, and Revision
provides information and library professionals including indexers,
abstractors, subject catalogers, classifiers, and reference
librarians a historical overview of the thesaurus and its past as
well as recent developments. This book also gives patrons, readers,
and researchers more effective techniques in vocabulary management
and offers insight on how thesauri are devised and compiled. This
book addresses: changing definitions, characteristics, functions,
and applications of thesauri the value of standards, evaluation,
use and review of software, and role and work of consultants during
thesauri construction and maintenance multicultural issues that
affect thesauri creation, such as mapping and interoperability
education and training The Thesaurus: Review, Renaissance, and
Revision also provides you with extensive bibliographies related to
issues and problems in thesaurus construction and design, such as
developing standards in support of electronic thesauri.
Examine crucial issues for audiovisual cataloging-from a variety of
perspectives!This vital book addresses both current and historic
issues related to audiovisual materials and cataloging. It covers
the current cataloging rules for sound recordings (popular music
and nonmusic recordings), videorecordings (including DVDs),
electronic resources (whether accessed locally or remotely),
three-dimensional objects and realia, and kits. Three historical
articles chronicle the history of audiovisual catalog in general,
the history of cataloging computer files, and the history of The
Thesaurus for Graphic Materials. A section on audiovisual materials
and subject access issues includes a chapter which proposes
form/genre terms for moving-image materials and a special library's
creation and use of a new thesaurus and its availability to assist
online catalog users. Finally, four contributions examine
audiovisual materials and cataloging from the perspectives of
different library types: school, public, academic, and special.The
Audiovisual Cataloging Current provides case studies that show: how
the National Library of Medicine produces, collects, and catalogs
non-print materials the differences between the Moving Image
Genre-Form Guide and Library of Congress Subject Headings, with
recommendations for improving LCSH as a tool and an exhaustive list
of LCSH terms how libraries and organized cataloging groups
developed the Chapter 9 descriptive cataloging rules in AACR2 how
the Westchester Library System created a user-friendly online
catalog for audiovisual materials how the Illinois Fire Service
Library improved firefighters'subject access to nonprint fire
emergency materials how the National Library of Medicine promotes
audiovisual formats and much more!
Examine crucial issues for audiovisual cataloging-from a variety of
perspectives This vital book addresses both current and historic
issues related to audiovisual materials and cataloging. It covers
the current cataloging rules for sound recordings (popular music
and nonmusic recordings), videorecordings (including DVDs),
electronic resources (whether accessed locally or remotely),
three-dimensional objects and realia, and kits. Three historical
articles chronicle the history of audiovisual catalog in general,
the history of cataloging computer files, and the history of The
Thesaurus for Graphic Materials. A section on audiovisual materials
and subject access issues includes a chapter which proposes
form/genre terms for moving-image materials and a special library's
creation and use of a new thesaurus and its availability to assist
online catalog users. Finally, four contributions examine
audiovisual materials and cataloging from the perspectives of
different library types: school, public, academic, and special. The
Audiovisual Cataloging Current provides case studies that show: how
the National Library of Medicine produces, collects, and catalogs
non-print materials the differences between the Moving Image
Genre-Form Guide and Library of Congress Subject Headings, with
recommendations for improving LCSH as a tool and an exhaustive list
of LCSH terms how libraries and organized cataloging groups
developed the Chapter 9 descriptive cataloging rules in AACR2 how
the Westchester Library System created a user-friendly online
catalog for audiovisual materials how the Illinois Fire Service
Library improved firefighters'subject access to nonprint fire
emergency materials how the National Library of Medicine promotes
audiovisual formats and much more
This volume contains the proceedings of a special conference held
in Florence, August 2009. The theoretical and methodological
aspects of rethinking semantic access to information and knowledge
are explored. Innovative projects deployed to cope with the
challenges of the future are presented and discussed. This book
offers a unique opportunity for librarians and other information
professionals to get acquainted with the state of the art in
subject indexing.
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