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Authors: Richard P. Smiraglia
ISBN-13: 9780810840379, ISBN-10: 0810840375
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Date Published: September 2001
Edition: (Non-applicable)

Author Biography: Richard P. Smiraglia

Book Synopsis

In order to aid the continuing development of catalogs, search engines, and all sorts of information-retrieval tools, Smiraglia (library and information science, Long Island U.) explores what constitutes a work within the maze of editions, revisions, and translations. He also considers patterns of mutation that can be observed among representations of works in the academic canon. He considers his study an initial rather than exhaustive one.

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	List of Tables
	List of Figures
	Preface
	Acknowledgments
Ch. 1	What Is the Nature of a Work?	1
Ch. 2	The Concept of the Work in Anglo-American Cataloging: An Historical Narrative	15
Ch. 3	Bibliographic Relationships Give Parameters to the Concept of a Work	35
Ch. 4	Reflections on the Creative Task: Linguistics, Philosophy, Semiotics, and Bibliography	53
Ch. 5	Defining the Work in Quantitative Terms	75
Ch. 6	The Constitution of Bibliographic Families	103
Ch. 7	Toward a Theory of the Work	121
	Works Cited	135
	App. 1: Definitions of a Work	145
	App. 2: Instantiations of a Work	153
	App. 3: Sampling Works	155
	Glossary	165
	Index	171
	About the Author	182

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Library & Information Science

Library Administration and Services
Nonfiction