Library and information science

AACR2 stands for the Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules, Second Edition. It is published jointly by the American Library Association, the Canadian Library Association, and the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals. AACR2 is designed for use in the construction of catalogues and other lists in general libraries of all sizes. The rules cover the description of, and the provision of access points for, all library materials commonly collected at the present time. ...more on Wikipedia about "AACR2"

The term accession number is used to describe the sequential number given to each new book, magazine subscription, or recording as it is entered in the catalog of a library. If an item is removed from the collection, its number is usually not reused for new items. This numbering system is usually in addition to the library classification number (or alphanumeric code) and to the ISBN or International Standard Book Number assigned by publishers. ...more on Wikipedia about "Accession number (library science)"

An acknowledgment index keeps track of which articles in scientific journals acknowledge which persons or organizations. ...more on Wikipedia about "Acknowledgment index"

The principle of an anti-systemic library is that it does not have a catalogue, i.e. a hierarchical organisation of knowledge. Instead it needs bibliographies. This idea has been developed in conjunction with Danish Situationist Asger Jorn's notion of Triolectics and the work of the American Philosopher Charles Peirce. ...more on Wikipedia about "Anti-systemic library"

The Association of Jewish Libraries (AJL) is an international organization dedicated to the production, collection, organization and dissemination of Judaic resources and library/media/information service. AJL has members in the United States, Canada, Israel and over 22 other countries. ...more on Wikipedia about "Association of Jewish Libraries"

Authority control is a term used in library and information science to describe the practice of ensuring that any term used as a catalogue entry is correlated with all other forms of that term. ...more on Wikipedia about "Authority control"

Bibliography is the study of books. It can be divided into enumerative or systematic bibliography, which results in an overview of publications in a particular category, and analytical or critical bibliography, which studies the production of books. ...more on Wikipedia about "Bibliography"

Bibliometrics is the study, or measurement, of texts and information (Norton, 2001). Bibliometrics is a type of content analysis. While it is most often used in the field of library and information science, it has wide applications in other areas. ...more on Wikipedia about "Bibliometrics"

The Bliss bibliographic classification (or BC for short) is a library classification system that was created by Henry E. Bliss (1870–1955), published in four volumes between 1940 and 1953. Although originally devised in the United States, it was more commonly adopted by British libraries than by American ones. A revised, second edition of this system (BC2) has been developed since 1977 in the United Kingdom. ...more on Wikipedia about "Bliss bibliographic classification"

Bradford's law is a pattern first described by Samuel C. Bradford in 1934 that estimates the exponentially diminishing returns of extending a library search. ...more on Wikipedia about "Bradford's law"

Canadian Subject Headings (CSH) is a list of subject headings in the English language, using controlled vocabulary, to access and express the topic content of documents on Canada and Canadian topics. The National Library of Canada published a list of CSH used in Canadian cataloguing. ...more on Wikipedia about "Canadian Subject Headings"

Carnegie libraries for both public use and academic institutions were built with money donated by Scottish-American businessman Andrew Carnegie, earning him the nickname, the Patron Saint of Libraries. Of the 2,509 funded between 1883 and 1929, 1,689 were built in the United States, 660 in Britain and Ireland, 156 in Canada, and others in Australia, New Zealand, the Caribbean, and Fiji. Very few towns that requested a grant and agreed to his terms were refused. When the last grant was made in 1919, there were 3,500 libraries in the United States, nearly half of them paid for by Carnegie. ...more on Wikipedia about "Carnegie library"

In publishing and library science, Cataloging in Publication (CIP, or Cataloguing in Publication) is basic cataloging data for a work, prepared in advance of publication by the national library of the country where the work is principally published or by the library of a publishing organisation such as a government department. The name reflects the usual practice of including that information in the corresponding publication -- in the case of books, near the bottom of the copyright page, and can be very useful for less experienced cataloguers when adding such items to their collections. The national libraries' CIP staffs restrict the range of publications that CIP will be prepared for, for instance requiring access to assistance from the publisher's staff. ...more on Wikipedia about "Cataloging in Publication"

Christian College Librarians or CCL is a consortium of librarians who serve the colleges and universities affiliated principally with the Churches of Christ of the American Restoration Movement although librarians from institutions that are parts of other streams of the movement also participate. ...more on Wikipedia about "Christian College Librarians"

A citation index keeps track of which articles in scientific journals cite which other articles. The most well-known and widely used citation index is the Web of Science, published by the Institute for Scientific Information (ISI). ...more on Wikipedia about "Citation index"

Colon classification (CC) is a system of library classification developed by S. R. Ranganathan. It was the first ever faceted (or analytico-synthetic) classification. It is especially used in libraries in India. ...more on Wikipedia about "Colon classification"

A controlled vocabulary (also called a taxonomy) is a carefully selected list of words and phrases, which are used to tag units of information so that they may be more easily retrieved by a search. The terms are chosen and organized by trained professionals (including librarians and information scientists) who possess expertise in the subject area. Controlled vocabulary terms can accurately describe what a given document is actually about, even if the terms themselves do not occur within the document's text. Fully developed controlled vocabulary systems, such as the Library of Congress Subject Headings, are often published in a reference work that is called a thesaurus. Controlled vocabularies form part of a larger universe of nomenclatural approaches to data classification called metadata. ...more on Wikipedia about "Controlled vocabulary"

Copac is a union catalogue which provides free access to the merged online catalogues of 24 major university research libraries in the United Kingdom and Ireland, plus the British Library and the National Library of Scotland. It has over 31 million records representing a wide range of materials across all subject areas. Copac is freely available to all. ...more on Wikipedia about "Copac"

Copyright (international symbol: ©) is a set of exclusive rights granted by governments to regulate the use of a particular expression of an idea or information. At its most general, it is literally "the right to copy" an original creation. In most cases, these rights are of limited duration. ...more on Wikipedia about "Copyright"

The Cutter Expansive Classification system is a library classification system devised by Charles Ammi Cutter. It uses all letters rather than digits (such as Dewey Decimal Classification) or a mixture of digits (such as Library of Congress classification), and was the basis for the top categories of the Library of Congress classification. ...more on Wikipedia about "Cutter Expansive Classification"

Derek John de Solla Price ( January 22 1922 – September 3 1983) was a science historian and information scientist, ...more on Wikipedia about "Derek J. de Solla Price"

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Description Of A Career (DOAC) is a semantic vocabulary created by Ramon A. Parada to describe professional capabilities of a worker. It has been designed to be compatible with the European curriculum (Europass) so those can be generated from a FOAF+DOAC file. It includes information about education, working experience, publications, spoken languages and other skills so it can be shared and processed by any application. ...more on Wikipedia about "Description of a Career"

The Dewey Decimal Classification (DDC, also called the Dewey Decimal System) is a system of library classification developed by Melvil Dewey in 1876, and since greatly modified and expanded in the course of the twenty-two major revisions, the most recent in 2004. ...more on Wikipedia about "Dewey Decimal Classification"

The Dickinson classification is a library classification scheme used to catalogue and classify musical compositions. It is fully detailed by Carol June Bradley in The Dickinson classification : a cataloguing & classification manual for music; including a reprint of the George Sherman Dickinson Classification of Musical Compositions published by Carlisle Books (1968). ...more on Wikipedia about "Dickinson classification"

A digital library is a library in which a significant proportion of the resources are available in machine-readable format (as opposed to print or microform), accessible by means of computers. The digital content may be locally held or accessed remotely via computer networks. In libraries, the process of digitization began with the catalog, moved to periodical indexes and abstracting services, then to periodicals and large reference works, and finally to book publishing. Some of the largest and most successful digital libraries are Project Gutenberg, ibiblio and the Internet Archive. ...more on Wikipedia about "Digital library"

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