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Abridged Dewey Decimal Classification and Relative Index
by Melvil Dewey, Joan S. Mitchell, Julianne Beall, Winton E. Matthews, Gregory R. New, Giles Martin

ISBN 0910608733 (0-910608-73-3)
Hardcover, OCLC

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A book describing and showing the utilization of the Dewey Decimal System. [via]
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Ambient Findability
by Peter Morville

ISBN 0596007655 (0-596-00765-5)
Softcover, Oreilly & Associates Inc

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How do you find your way in an age of information overload? How can you filter streams of complex information to pull out only what you want? Why does it matter how information is structured when Google seems to magically bring up the right answer to your questions? What does it mean to be "findable" in this day and age? This eye-opening new book examines the convergence of information and connectivity. Written by Peter Morville, author of the groundbreaking Information Architecture for the World Wide Web, the book defines our current age as a state of unlimited findability. In other words, anyone can find anything at any time. Complete navigability.
Morville discusses the Internet, GIS, and other network technologies that are coming together to make unlimited findability possible. He explores how the melding of these innovations impacts society, since Web access is now a standard requirement for successful people and businesses. But before he does that, Morville looks back at the history of wayfinding and human evolution, suggesting that our fear of being lost has driven us to create maps, charts, and now, the mobile Internet.

The book's central thesis is that information literacy, information architecture, and usability are all critical components of this new world order. Hand in hand with that is the contention that only by planning and designing the best possible software, devices, and Internet, will we be able to maintain this connectivity in the future. Morville's book is highlighted with full color illustrations and rich examples that bring his prose to life.

Ambient Findability doesn't preach or pretend to know all the answers. Instead, it presents research, stories, and examples in support of its novel ideas. Are we truly at a critical point in our evolution where the quality of our digital networks will dictate how we behave as a species? Is findability indeed the primary key to a successful global marketplace in the 21st century and beyond. Peter Morville takes you on a thought-provoking tour of these memes and more -- ideas that will not only fascinate but will stir your creativity in practical ways that you can apply to your work immediately.

""A lively, enjoyable and informative tour of a topic that's only going to become more important.""

--David Weinberger, Author, "Small Pieces Loosely Joined" and "The Cluetrain Manifesto"

""I envy the young scholar who finds this inventive book, by whatever strange means are necessary. The future isn't just unwritten--it's unsearched.""

--Bruce Sterling, Writer, Futurist, and Co-Founder, The Electronic Frontier Foundation

""Search engine marketing is the hottest thing in Internet business, and deservedly so. Ambient Findability puts SEM into a broader context and provides deeper insights into human behavior. This book will help you grow your online business in a world where being found is not at all certain.""

--Jakob Nielsen, Ph.D., Author, "Designing Web Usability: The Practice of Simplicity"

""Information that's hard to find will remain information that's hardly found--from one of the fathers of the discipline of information architecture, and one of its most experienced practitioners, come penetrating observations on why findability is elusive and how the act of seeking changes us.""

--Steve Papa, Founder and Chairman, Endeca

""Whether it's a fact or a figure, a person or a place, Peter Morville knows how to make it findable. Morville explores the possibilities of a world where everything can always be found--and the challenges in getting there--in this wide-ranging, thought-provoking book.""

--Jesse James Garrett, Author, "The Elements of User Experience"

""It is easy to assume that current searching of the World Wide Web is the last word in finding and using information. Peter Morville shows us that search engines are just the beginning. Skillfully weaving together information science research with his own extensive experience, he develops for the reader a feeling for the near future when information is truly findable all around us. There are immense implications, and Morville's lively and humorous writing brings them home.""

--Marcia J. Bates, Ph.D., University of California Los Angeles

""I've always known that Peter Morville was smart. After reading Ambient Findability, I now know he's (as we say in Boston) wicked smart. This is a timely book that will have lasting effects on how we create our future."

--Jared Spool, Founding Principal, User Interface Engineering

""In Ambient Findability, Peter Morville has put his mind and keyboard on the pulse of the electronic noosphere. With tangible examples and lively writing, he lays out the challenges and wonders of finding our way in cyberspace, and explains the mutually dependent evolution of our changing world and selves. This is a must read for everyone and a practical guide for designers.""

--Gary Marchionini, Ph.D., University of North Carolina

""Find this book! Anyone interested in makinginformation easier to find, or understanding how finding and being found is changing, will find this thoroughly researched, engagingly written, literate, insightful and very, very cool book well worth their time. Myriad examples from rich and varied domains and a valuable idea on nearly every page. Fun to read, too!"

--Joseph Janes, Ph.D., Founder, Internet Public Library
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Anglo American Cataloguing Rules, 2002 Revision: 2003 Update

ISBN 0838935362 (0-8389-3536-2)
Hardcover, Amer Library Assn

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Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules
by American Library Association, Joint Steering Committee for Revision of Aacr, Michael Gorman, Paul W. Winkler

ISBN 0838934854 (0-8389-3485-4)
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AACR2 is one of the most used cataloguing systems in the world, and these amendments are an update to the 1988 revision. This latest set of revisions to the Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules has been approved by the Joint Steering Committee for the Revision of AACR. The code plus these amendments are the standard in use and are available to those who already have the main AACR2 text or as a separate entity. Anyone requiring this comprehensive, up-to-date version of the code will want to buy the amendments for incorporation into their existing copy of AACR2. The amendments have been designed so that they can be easily inserted into bound copies or loose-leaf binder. [via]
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Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules
by Michael Gorman, Paul W. Winkler

ISBN 0838933467 (0-8389-3346-7)
Hardcover, American Library Association

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Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules: 1988 Revision/With Amendments 1993
by Paul W. Winkler, Gorman, Michael & Winkler, Paul

ISBN 0838933602 (0-8389-3360-2)
Softcover, Amer Library Assn

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Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules 1998
by American Library Association, Joint Steering Committee for Revision of Aacr, Michael Gorman, Paul W. Winkler

ISBN 0838934862 (0-8389-3486-2)
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Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules: 1998 Revision

ISBN 0838935214 (0-8389-3521-4)
Softcover, Amer Library Assn

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Anglo-american Cataloguing Rules 2002 Revision: 2004 Update (Update Pages Only)
by Canadian Library Association, The American Library Association, Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals (Great Britain)

ISBN 083893546X (0-8389-3546-X)
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Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules, 2002

ISBN 0838935303 (0-8389-3530-3)
Softcover, Amer Library Assn

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Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules, 2002: Binder
by The Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals

ISBN 083893529X (0-8389-3529-X)
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Cataloging and Classification: An Introduction
by Lois Mai Chan

ISBN 0070105065 (0-07-010506-5)
Hardcover, McGraw-Hill College

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Cataloging and Classification is also a name for the course that covers general principles of bibliography, cataloging, and indexing, that is required for students working toward degrees in Library/Information Science. Of the few texts available for the course, Lois Chan's Cataloging and Classification is the best because the author is the most widely known and respected authority in the field and the text contains complex, difficult information that is presented clearly and in an organized understandable manner, and provides exercises to reinforce the concepts. [via]
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A Catalogue of Nomenclature and Taxonomy in the Living Conidae 1758-1998
by R. M. Filmer

ISBN 9057820773 (90-5782-077-3)
Softcover, Backhuys

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The Concise AACR2
by Michael Gorman, American Library Association

ISBN 0838935486 (0-8389-3548-6)
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The Concise Aacr2 1988 Revision
by Michael Gorman

ISBN 0838933629 (0-8389-3362-9)
Softcover, Amer Library Assn

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The Concise AACR2, 1998 Revision
by Michael Gorman

ISBN 0838934943 (0-8389-3494-3)
Softcover, American Library Association

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Data Mining: Practical Machine Learning Tools And Techniques
by Ian H. Witten, Eibe Frank

ISBN 0120884070 (0-12-088407-0)
Softcover, Morgan Kaufmann Pub

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As with any burgeoning technology that enjoys commercial attention, the use of data mining is surrounded by a great deal of hype. Exaggerated reports tell of secrets that can be uncovered by setting algorithms loose on oceans of data. But there is no magic in machine learning, no hidden power, no alchemy. Instead there is an identifiable body of practical techniques that can extract useful information from raw data. This book describes these techniques and shows how they work.

The book is a major revision of the first edition that appeared in 1999. While the basic core remains the same, it has been updated to reflect the changes that have taken place over five years, and now has nearly double the references. The highlights for the new edition include thirty new technique sections; an enhanced Weka machine learning workbench, which now features an interactive interface; comprehensive information on neural networks; a new section on Bayesian networks; plus much more.

* Algorithmic methods at the heart of successful data mining-including tried and true techniques as well as leading edge methods
* Performance improvement techniques that work by transforming the input or output
* Downloadable Weka, a collection of machine learning algorithms for data mining tasks, including tools for data pre-processing, classification, regression, clustering, association rules, and visualization-in a new, interactive interface [via]
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Data Mining: Practical Machine Learning Tools and Techniques With Java Implementations
by Eibe Frank, I.H. Witten

ISBN 1558605525 (1-55860-552-5)
Softcover, Morgan Kaufmann Pub

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Data mining techniques are used to power intelligent software, both on and off the Internet. Data Mining: Practical Machine Learning Tools explains the magic behind information extraction in a book that succeeds at bringing the latest in computer science research to any IS manager or developer. In addition, this book provides an opportunity for the authors to showcase their powerful reusable Java class library for building custom data mining software.
This text is remarkable with its comprehensive review of recent research on machine learning, all told in a very approachable style. (While there is plenty of math in some sections, the authors' explanations are always clear.) The book tours the nature of machine learning and how it can be used to find predictive patterns in data comprehensible to managers and developers alike. And they use sample data (for such topics as weather, contact lens prescriptions, and flowers) to illustrate key concepts.
After setting out to explain the types of machine learning models (like decision trees and classification rules), the book surveys algorithms used to implement them, plus strategies for improving performance and the reliability of results. Later the book turns to the authors' downloadable Weka (rhymes with "Mecca") Java class library, which lets you experiment with data mining hands-on and gets you started with this technology in custom applications. Final sections look at the bright prospects for data mining and machine learning on the Internet (for example, in Web search engines).
Precise but never pedantic, this admirably clear title delivers a real-world perspective on advantages of data mining and machine learning. Besides a programming how-to, it can be read profitably by any manager or developer who wants to see what leading-edge machine learning techniques can do for their software. --Richard Dragan
Topics covered: Data mining and machine learning basics, sample datasets and applications for data mining, machine learning vs. statistics, the ethics of data mining, generalization, concepts, attributes, missing values, decision tables and trees, classification rules, association rules, exceptions, numeric prediction, clustering, algorithms and implementations in Java, inferring rules, statistical modeling, covering algorithms, linear models, support vector machines, instance-based learning, credibility, cross-validation, probability, costs (lift charts and ROC curves), selecting attributes, data cleansing, combining multiple models (bagging, boosting, and stacking), Weka (reusable Java classes for machine learning), customizing Weka, visualizing machine learning, working with massive datasets, text mining, and e-mail and the Internet. [via]
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Detecting Patterns Book 3
by Mostelle

ISBN 0201048779 (0-201-04877-9)
Softcover, Addison-Wesley

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Dewey Decimal Classification and Relative Index
by Melvil Dewey, Joan S. Mitchell, Julianne Beall, Winton E. Matthews, Gregory R. New, Giles Martin

ISBN 0910608709 (0-910608-70-9)
Hardcover, OCLC

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Dewey Decimal Classification and Relative Index: Index Manual
by Melvil Dewey

ISBN 0910608547 (0-910608-54-7)
Hardcover, OCLC

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Essential Classification
by Vanda Broughtoon

ISBN 1555705073 (1-55570-507-3)
Softcover, Neal Schuman Pub

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Exploring Data
by Mostelle

ISBN 0201048736 (0-201-04873-6)
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A Guide to the Library of Congress Classification
by Lois Mai Chan

ISBN 1563085003 (1-56308-500-3)
Softcover, Libraries Unltd Inc

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Completely updating Immroth's A Guide to the Library of Congress Classification (Libraries Unlimited, 1990), Chan's work adheres to the purpose of previous editions--to provide readers with a basic understanding of the Library of Congress Classification system and its applications. After introducing the classification and giving a brief history of its development, the author presents readers with the general principles, structure, and format of the scheme. She then discusses and illustrates the use of tables. In an entire chapter that is new to this book, Chan provides a general discourse on assigning LC call numbers. Discussion of applications is continued with emphasis on individual classes and specific types of library materials. Appendixes include tables of general application and models for subarrangement of divisions and topics within disciplines. Throughout the book, examples appear, taken from recent Library of Congress Machine-Readable Cataloging (LC MARC) records. A bibliography lists selecte
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A Guide to the Library of Congress Classification
by John Phillip Immroth

ISBN 0872870391 (0-87287-039-1)
Hardcover, Libraries Unlimited

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Immroth's Guide to the Library of Congress Classification
by Lois Mai Chan, John Phillip Immroth

ISBN 0872872351 (0-87287-235-1)
Softcover, Libraries Unltd Inc

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This book is intended to be an introduction to the Library of Congress Classification. It provides the reader with a basic understanding of the characteristics of the classification, the arrangement within the classes, the format of the schedules and tables, and Library of Congress Policies with regard to the application of various features of the system. [via]
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Information Architecture for the World Wide Web
by Louis Rosenfeld, Peter Morville

ISBN 1600330150 (1-60033-015-0)
Hardcover, Oreilly & Associates Inc

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Today's web sites have moved far beyond "brochureware." They are larger and more complex, have great strategic value to their sponsors, and their users are busier and less forgiving. Designers, information architects, and web site managers are required to juggle vast amounts of information, frequent changes, new technologies, and sometimes even multiple objectives, making some web sites look like a fast-growing but poorly planned city-roads everywhere, but impossible to navigate. Well-planned information architecture has never been as essential as it is now.
Information Architecture for the World Wide Web, 2nd Edition, shows you how to blend aesthetics and mechanics for distinctive, cohesive web sites that work. Most books on web development concentrate on either the graphics or the technical issues of a site. This book focuses on the framework that holds the two together.
This edition contains more than 75% new material. You'll find updated chapters on organization, labeling, navigation, and searching; and a new chapter on thesauri, controlled vocabularies and metadata will help you understand the interconnectedness of these systems. The authors have expanded the methodology chapters to include a more interdisciplinary collection of tools and techniques. They've also complemented the top-down strategies of the first edition with bottom-up approaches that enable distributed, emergent solutions.
A whole new section addresses the opportunities and challenges of practicing information architecture, while another section discusses how that work impacts and is influenced by the broader organizational context. New case studies provide models for creating enterprise intranet portals and online communities. Finally, you'll find pointers to a wealth of essential information architecture resources, many of which did not exist a few years ago.
By applying the principles outlined in this completely updated classic, you'll build web sites and intranets that are easier to navigate and appealing to your users, as well as scalable and simple to maintain. Information Architecture for the World Wide Web, 2nd Edition is a treasure trove of ideas and practical advice for anyone involved in building or maintaining a large, complex web site or intranet.
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Information Architecture for the World Wide Web : Designing Large-Scale Web Sites
by Louis Rosenfeld, Peter Morville, Linda Mui

ISBN 1565922824 (1-56592-282-4)
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In Chapter 6 of Information Architecture for the World Wide Web, the authors discuss the details of good search-engine design. In a bitingly humorous segment, they analyze a Web site's search-page results: "Let's say you're interested in knowing what the New Jersey sales tax is.... So you go to the State of New Jersey web site and search on sales tax. The 20 results are scored at either 84% or 82% relevant. Why does each document receive only one of two scores?... And what the heck makes a document 2% more relevant than another?"
With a swift and convincing stroke, the authors of Information Architecture for the World Wide Web tear down many entrenched ideas about Web design. Flashy animations are cool, they agree, as long as they don't aggravate the viewer. Nifty clickable icons are nice, but are their meanings universal? Is the search engine providing results that are useful and relevant? This book acts as a mirror and with careful questioning causes the reader to think through all the elements and decisions required for well-crafted Web design. --Jennifer Buckendorff [via]
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The Intellectual Foundation of Information Organization
by Elaine Svenonius

ISBN 0262194333 (0-262-19433-3)
Hardcover, Mit Pr

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Instant electronic access to digital information is the single most distinguishing attribute of the information age. The elaborate retrieval mechanisms that support such access are a product of technology. But technology is not enough. The effectiveness of a system for accessing information is a direct function of the intelligence put into organizing it. Just as the practical field of engineering has theoretical physics as its underlying base, the design of systems for organizing information rests on an intellectual foundation. The subject of this book is the systematized body of knowledge that constitutes this foundation.

Integrating the disparate disciplines of descriptive cataloging, subject cataloging, indexing, and classification, the book adopts a conceptual framework that views the process of organizing information as the use of a special language of description called a bibliographic language. The book is divided into two parts. The first part is an analytic discussion of the intellectual foundation of information organization. The second part moves from generalities to particulars, presenting an overview of three bibliographic languages: work languages, document languages, and subject languages. It looks at these languages in terms of their vocabulary, semantics, and syntax. The book is written in an exceptionally clear style, at a level that makes it understandable to those outside the discipline of library and information science. [via]
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Introduction to Cataloging and Classification
by Bohdan S. Wynar, Arlene G. Taylor, Jeanne Osborn

ISBN 0872872211 (0-87287-221-1)
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Introduction to Cataloging And Classification
by Arlene G. Taylor, David P. Miller

ISBN 1591582350 (1-59158-235-0)
Softcover, Libraries Unltd Inc

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In the latest edition of this classic work, Arlene Taylor once again offers a complete, up-to-date, and practical guide to the world of cataloging and classification. Since the publication of the ninth and ninth-revised editions (2000 and 2004), changes have occurred in almost all areas of the organization of information in general, as well as in cataloging and classification. The 10th edition incorporates the 2002 Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules, Second Edition (AACR2), MARC 21, the 22nd edition of Dewey Decimal Classification, current schedules of the LC Classifications, the latest Library of Congress Subject Headings, and the 18th edition of the Sears List of Subject Headings. In addition, Taylor addresses such vital issues as FRBR (Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records), FAST (Faceted Application of Subject Terminology), and the Semantic Web. The bibliography and glossary have also been substantially reworked. In fact, only the appendix, which covers arrangement dilemmas and filing rules, remains unchanged.
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Library Research Models: A Guide to Classification, Cataloging, and Computers
by Thomas Mann

ISBN 019509395X (0-19-509395-X)
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Most researchers, even with computers, find only a fraction of the sources available to them. As Library of Congress reference librarian Thomas Mann explains, researchers tend to work within one or another mental framework that limits their basic perception of the universe of knowledge available to them. Some, for example, use a subject-disciplinary method which leads them to a specific list of sources on a particular subject. But, Mann points out, while this method allows students and researchers to find more specialized sources, it is also limiting--they may not realize that works of interest to their own subject appear within the literature of many other disciplines. A researcher looking through anthropology journals, for example, might not discover that the MLA International Bibliography provides the best coverage of folklore journals.
In Library Research Models, Mann examines the several alternative mental models people use to approach the task of research, and demonstrates new, more effective ways of finding information. Drawing on actual examples gleaned from 15 years' experience in helping thousands of researchers, he not only shows the full range of search options possible, but also illuminates the inevitable tradeoffs and losses of access that occur when researchers limit themselves to a specific method. In two chapters devoted to computers he examines the use of electronic resources and reveals their value in providing access to a wide range of sources as well as their disadvantages: what people are not getting when they rely solely on computer searches; why many sources will probably never be in databases; and what the options are for searching beyond computers.
Thomas Mann's A Guide to Library Research Methods was widely praised as a definitive manual of library research. Ronald Gross, author of The Independent Scholar's Handbook called it "the savviest such guide I have ever seen--bracingly irreverent and brimming with wisdom." The perfect companion volume, Library Research Models goes even further to provide a fascinating look at the ways in which we can most efficiently gain access to our vast storehouses of knowledge. [via]
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Manheimer's Cataloging and Classification: A Workbook
by Jerry D. Saye

ISBN 0824784936 (0-8247-8493-6)
Softcover, Marcel Dekker Inc

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The Naming of Names: The Search For Order In The World Of Plants
by Anna Pavord

ISBN 1596910712 (1-59691-071-2)
Hardcover, St Martins Pr

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The Order of Things
by Barbara Ann Kipfer

ISBN 0679444785 (0-679-44478-5)
Hardcover, Random House Information Group

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The Order of Things: How Everything in the World Is Organized into Hierarchies, Structures, and Pecking Orders
by Barbara Ann Kipfer

ISBN 0375701648 (0-375-70164-8)
Softcover, Random House Inc

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This amazing, one-of-a-kind reference book has been revised and completely updated. Called "a definite reference must" by King Features Syndicate, The Order of Things is an illustrated collection of orders and classifications in science, religion, history, business, the arts, sports, technology, mathematics, society, and domestic life.

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" Over 400 informative lists, hierarchies, and illustrations, from the ancient past to today -- divided into 13 major areas of knowledge.

" Extremely well-organized and accessible, from the Table of Contents to the extensive and all-encompassing index.

" Unique information that is useful, surprising, and enlightening. Here, reader's will find the 64 emperors of Byzantium; ranks in the British army; how a television dish is operated; the different layers of soil; coal sizes; the various ice ages; how your ear hears something; how all the languages in the world are organized -- and much, much more.

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The Organization of Information
by Arlene G. Taylor

ISBN 1563089696 (1-56308-969-6)
Softcover, Libraries Unltd Inc

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The extensively revised and completely updated second edition of this popular textbook provides LIS practitioners and students with a vital guide to the organization of information. After a broad overview of the concept and its role in human endeavors, Taylor proceeds to a detailed and insightful discussion of such basic retrieval tools as bibliographies, catalogs, indexes, finding aids, registers, databases, major bibliographic utilities, and other organizing entities. After tracing the development of the organization of recorded information in Western civilization from 2000 B.C.E. to the present, the author addresses topics that include encoding standards (MARC, SGML, and various DTDs), metadata (description, access, and access control), verbal subject analysis including controlled vocabularies and ontologies, classification theory and methodology, arrangement and display, and system design.
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Pattern Classification
by David G. Stork, Richard O. Duda, Peter E. Hart

ISBN 0471056693 (0-471-05669-3)
Hardcover, Wiley-Interscience

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Pattern Classification (2nd Edition) [Hardcover] by Duda, Richard O. [via]
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The Platypus and the Mermaid: And Other Figments of the Classifying Imagination
by Harriet Ritvo

ISBN 0674673581 (0-674-67358-1)
Softcover, Harvard Univ Pr

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"Cats is 'dogs,' and rabbits is 'dogs,' and so's parrots; but this `ere 'tortis' is a insect," a porter explains to an astonished traveler in a nineteenth-century Punch cartoon. Railways were not the only British institution to schematize the world. This enormously entertaining book captures the fervor of the Victorian age for classifying and categorizing every new specimen, plant or animal, that British explorers and soldiers and sailors brought home. As she depicts a whole complex of competing groups deploying rival schemes and nomenclatures, Harriet Ritvo shows us a society drawing and redrawing its own boundaries and ultimately identifying itself. The experts (whether calling themselves naturalists, zoologists, or comparative anatomists) agreed on their superior authority if nothing else, but the laymen had their say--and Ritvo shows us a world in which butchers and artists, farmers and showmen vied to impose order on the wild profusion of nature. Sometimes assumptions or preoccupations overlapped; sometimes open disagreement or hostility emerged, exposing fissures in the social fabric or contested cultural territory. Of the greatest interest were creatures that confounded or crossed established categories; in the discussions provoked by these mishaps, monstrosities, and hybrids we can see ideas about human society--about the sexual proclivities of women, for instance, or the imagined hierarchy of nations and races. A thoroughly absorbing account of taxonomy--as zoological classification and as anthropological study--The Platypus and the Mermaid offers a new perspective on the constantly shifting, ever suggestive interactions of scientific lore, cultural ideas, and the popular imagination. [via]
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The Primary Structures of Fabrics: An Illustrated Classification
by Irene Emery

ISBN 0823043940 (0-8230-4394-0)
Hardcover, Whitney Library of Design

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S. R. Ranganathan & the West
by Ravindra N. Sharma

ISBN 812071475X (81-207-1475-X)
Hardcover, Stosius Inc/Advent Books Division

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Sorting Things Out: Classification and Its Consequences
by Geoffrey C. Bowker, Susan Leigh Star

ISBN 0262522950 (0-262-52295-0)
Softcover, Mit Pr

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Is this book sociology, anthropology, or taxonomy? Sorting Things Out, by communications theorists Geoffrey C. Bowker and Susan Leigh Star, covers a lot of conceptual ground in its effort to sort out exactly how and why we classify and categorize the things and concepts we encounter day to day. But the analysis doesn't stop there; the authors go on to explore what happens to our thinking as a result of our classifications. With great insight and precise academic language, they pick apart our information systems and language structures that lie deeper than the everyday categories we use. The authors focus first on the International Classification of Diseases (ICD), a widely used scheme used by health professionals worldwide, but also look at other health information systems, racial classifications used by South Africa during apartheid, and more.
Though it comes off as a bit too academic at times (by the end of the 20th century, most writers should be able to get the spelling of McDonald's restaurant right), the book has a clever charm that thoughtful readers will surely appreciate. A sly sense of humor sneaks into the writing, giving rise to the chapter title "The Kindness of Strangers," for example. After arguing that categorization is both strongly influenced by and a powerful reinforcer of ideology, it follows that revolutions (political or scientific) must change the way things are sorted in order to throw over the old system. Who knew that such simple, basic elements of thought could have such far-reaching consequences? Whether you ultimately place it with social science, linguistics, or (as the authors fear) fantasy, make sure you put Sorting Things Out in your reading pile. --Rob Lightner [via]
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Species of Spaces and Other Pieces
by Georges Perec, John Sturrock

ISBN 0140189866 (0-14-018986-6)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA

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Statistics by Example: Finding Models
by Mostelle

ISBN 0201048795 (0-201-04879-5)
Softcover, Addison-Wesley

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A Thesaurus of African Languages, a Classified and Annotated Inventory of the Spoken Languages of Africa: With an Appendix on Their Written Represen
by Michael Mann, David Dalby

ISBN 0905450248 (0-905450-24-8)
Hardcover, Walter De Gruyter Inc

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This Is Not a Weasel: A Close Look at Nature's Most Confusing Terms
by Philip Mortenson

ISBN 0471273961 (0-471-27396-1)
Softcover, John Wiley & Sons Inc

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Weighing Chances Book 2
by Mosteller

ISBN 0201048752 (0-201-04875-2)
Softcover, Pearson Prentice Hall

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Women, Fire, and Dangerous Things: What Categories Reveal About the Mind
by George Lakoff

ISBN 0226468046 (0-226-46804-6)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr

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"Its publication should be a major event for cognitive linguistics and should pose a major challenge for cognitive science. In addition, it should have repercussions in a variety of disciplines, ranging from anthropology and psychology to epistemology and the philosophy of science. . . . Lakoff asks: What do categories of language and thought reveal about the human mind? Offering both general theory and minute details, Lakoff shows that categories reveal a great deal."David E. Leary, American Scientist
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The World of Order and Organization : How Things are Arranged into Hierarchies, Structures and Pecking Orders
by Barbara Ann Kipfer

ISBN 0517208687 (0-517-20868-7)
Hardcover, Random House Value Publishing

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Wynar's Introduction to Cataloging and Classification
by David P. Miller, Arlene G. Taylor

ISBN 159158230X (1-59158-230-X)
Hardcover, Libraries Unltd Inc

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This revised edition offers practitioners and students of library and information science a practical guide to the world of cataloguing and classification as it stands at the beginning of the 21st century. It emphasizes online catalogues and cataloguing, with all the attendant terminology. The author addresses such vital issues as Internet cataloguing, international access control, metadata, and ontologies. A new chapter, "Encoding", has been added to introduce users to the area of mark-up language that allows data to be read by computer and displayed online. Emphasis in this chapter is on "MARC 21". The chapter on "Description" reflects the major conceptual shift in description of resources with a new organization based on the eight areas of the "International Standard Bibliographic Description" (ISBD) rather than according to the type of material being catalogued. Other changes covered by the work encompass the 1998 revision of the "Anglio-American Cataloguing Rules", second edition (AACR2), the 21st edition of "Dewey Decimal Classification", current schedules of the LC Classifications, the latest "Library of Congress Subject Headings", and the 17th edition of "Sears List of Subject Headings". In addition, the section on adminstrative issues has been completely rewritten, and suggested readings have been updated in all chapters. [via]
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