Indexing and Abstracting in Theory and Practice

Frederick Wilfrid Lancaster

Library Association, 1998 - Language Arts & Disciplines - 412 pages

This updated book is intended primarily as a text to be used in teaching indexing and abstracting in schools of library and information science. It should 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.

Contents

• Introduction: 1
• Indexing Principles: 5
• Indexing Practice: 20
• Precoordinate Indexes: 44
• Consistency of Indexing: 62
• Quality of Indexing: 77
• Types and Functions: 94
• Writing the Abstract: 107
• Evaluation Aspects: 127
• Approaches Used in Indexing and Abstracting Services: 150
• Enhancing the Indexing: 178
• On the Indexing and Abstracting of Imaginative Works: 192
• Indexing Multimedia Sources: 206
• Text Searching: 222
• Automatic Indexing Automatic Abstracting and Related Procedures: 251
• Indexing and the Internet: 298
• The Future of Indexing and Abstracting: 314
• Practice: 323
• Indexing Exercises: 325
• Abstracting Exercises: 339
• Appendices Appendix 1 Summary of Abstracting Principles: 348
• The Fatal Abstract a cautionary tale: 351
• Modular Content Analysis: 363
• References: 366
• Index: 398

Bibliographic information

• Title: Indexing and Abstracting in Theory and Practice
• Author: Frederick Wilfrid Lancaster
• Edition: 2, illustrated
• Publisher: Library Association, 1998
• Original from: the University of Michigan
• Digitized: Aug 9, 2007
• ISBN: 1856042685, 9781856042680
• Length: 412 pages
• Subjects: Language Arts & Disciplines / Library & Information Science / Cataloging & Classification; Language Arts & Disciplines / Library & Information Science / General