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标题：Book Review
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作者：M. P. Satija
期刊名称：Pakistan Journal of Library and Information Science
印刷版ISSN：1680-4465
出版年度：2010
卷号：11
出版社：University of the Punjab
摘要：Rowley, Jennifer and Hartley, Richard: Organizing Knowledge: An Introduction to Managing Access to Information, 4th ed. Farnham, Surrey, U.K. : Ashgate, 2008. xxiv, 367p. ISBN-13 :978-0-7546-4431-6 (pbk) It is the fourth edition of a famous British book in the field of knowledge organization and practical information retrieval. First published in 1987 its previous edition (Gower, 2000, xix, 404p) was co-authored with late John Farrow who is now one of the dedicatee of the book. In full two decades of its existence it has mirrored the fast developments in the field and has set standards for teaching. Knowledge organization, though still in flux has become quite sophisticated in concepts and operations, and has very much widened its field of applications from libraries to public record offices, archives, museums (all memory institutions), corporate databases, and content management systems. Developments in knowledge organizations are incremental in all these sectors. The work establishes the complexity of the field of knowledge organization and lucidly explains the basis of knowledge structuring and retrieval in different contexts and situations. Accordingly, the text has been restructured and indeed updated to reflect the current thinking and practices. The entire text has been divided into three parts of twelve detailed chapters to make it a comprehensive textook and a one-stop-shop to buy the basics and techniques of information management, both in electronic and print environments. Introduction provides a concise but skilled synopsis of the whole work with an overview of the contents of each chapter. Part I of three chapters, renamed as “Structuring and Describing,” is an exercise to describe the nature of knowledge, types of documents and their descriptions.