Indexing and Abstracting in Theory and Practice
F. Wilfrid Lancaster(Author)
Library Association Publishing
Published on 28. May 1991
Book
Hardback
352 pages
978-1-85604-004-4 (ISBN)
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Description
This book is intended primarily as a text to be used in teaching indexing and abstracting in schools of library and information science. It will also be of value to all individuals and institutions involved in training for information retrieval and related activities, including librarians, managers of information centres, and database producers. The similarities rather than the differences of indexing and abstracting are stressed. Chapter headings include: pre-co-ordinate indexes, consistency of indexing, quality of indexing, abstracts: types and functions, writing the abstract, natural language in information retrieval, automatic indexing. There are exercises in both indexing and abstracting procedures.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Facet Publishing
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
glossary, index
Dimensions
Height: 162 mm
Width: 235 mm
Weight
636 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-85604-004-4 (9781856040044)
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F. Wilfrid Lancaster
Indexing and Abstracting in Theory and Practice
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09/1998
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Content
Part 1 Theory and description: indexing principles; indexing practice; pre-coordinate indexes; consistency of indexing; quality of indexing; abstracts - types and functions; writing the abstract; evaluation aspects; approaches used in indexing and abstracting services; enhancing the indexing; on the indexing and abstracting of imaginative works; natural language in information retrieval; automatic indexing, automatic abstracting and related procedures; the future of indexing and abstracting services. Part 2 Practice: indexing exercises; abstracting exercises.