Jennifer Rowley, Richard Hartley

Organizing Knowledge

An Introduction to Managing Access to Information

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The fourth edition of this standard student text, Organizing Knowledge, incorporates extensive revisions reflecting the increasing shift towards a networked and digital information environment, and its impact on documents, information, knowledge, users and managers. This is a key introductory text for undergraduate and postgraduate students of information management.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• 4 ed
• Seitenzahl: 392
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Januar 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 606g
• ISBN-13: 9780754644316
• ISBN-10: 0754644316
• Artikelnr.: 24740772

Autorenporträt

Jennifer Rowley is Professor of Information and Communications at Manchester Metropolitan University and Richard Hartley is Professor of Information Science at Manchester Metropolitan University, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Introduction
Part I Structuring and Describing: Knowledge, information and their organization
Formatting and structuring knowledge
Describing documents. Part II Access: Users and behaviour
Subjects as access points
Classification and order
Further concepts and tools for subject access
Access through author names and titles. Part III Systems: Knowledge organization in the digital environment
The evaluation and design of information retrieval systems
Organizing knowledge without IT
Management of knowledge systems
Index.