Sorting Out The Web »

CANDY SCHWARTZ is Professor of Library and Information Science at Simmons College.

Investigates what has been done in providing subject access to networked resources, and what is around the corner.

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This guide for educators, professionals, and students of library and information science discusses subject approaches to networked information resource discovery. A sampling of topics includes web search engines, alphabetical subject indexing and thesauri, metadata as a potentiator of subject description, and classification schemes and directories. Schwartz is a professor in the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at Simmons College. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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Preface

Introduction

Metadata

Classification

Controlled Vocabularies

Search Engines

Around the Corner

Index