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Hardcover Explorations in Indexing and Abstracting: Pointing, Virtue, and Power Book

ISBN: 1563081849

ISBN13: 9781563081842

Explorations in Indexing and Abstracting: Pointing, Virtue, and Power

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Indexing and abstracting often fail because too much emphasis is given to the mechanics of description and too little is given to what ought to be described. This text focuses on how people seek information. Drawing on a delightfully broad base of intellectual resources--from information theory and classic literature to Beethoven and MTV--the author considers the basic question of how we can index and abstract our information so that the user can...

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