Library and information science specialists Taylor (U. of North Carolina, Chapel Hill) and Joudrey (Simmons College, Boston, Massachusetts) present their third edition text for students, practicing librarians, and others interested in organizing information. While the text covers the theory, principles, standards, and tools behind information organization in all types of environments, the main focus is on libraries. The text has been reorganized and extensively updated throughout, including new and expanded material on indexing, abstracting, archival finding aids, museum databases, metadata models, XML and XML schemas, the future of MARC, discovery interfaces to information systems, next generation catalogs, new metadata standards (DACS, CCO, CDWA, and FRBR), bibliographic relationships and authority control, the aboutness of an information resource, issues related to tagging, the nature of categories and classification, and clustering. Annotation ©2009 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)