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 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 DDC and LCC.

Significant expansion of: The organization of information. 3rd ed. / Arlene G. Taylor and Daniel N. Joudrey.

Organization of recorded information --Development of the organization of recorded information in western civilization -- Retrieval tools -- Systems and system design -- Introduction to metadata -- Encoding standards -- Resource description -- Access and authority control -- Subject analysis -- Systems for vocabulary control -- Systems for categorization -- Appendix A. An approach to subject analysis -- Appendix B. Arrangement of physical information resources in libraries -- Appendix C. Arrangement of metadata displays -- Appendix D. EAD3 encoded finding aid for collection described in figure 3.10.