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Third edition of award-winning indexing and abstracting text now available

Indexing and Abstracting in Theory and Practice, third edition
By F. W. Lancaster
ISBN 0-87845-122-8; 464 pages; cloth; $57.50  plus shipping
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Award-winning author F.W. Lancaster has revised his widely used text,
Indexing and Abstracting in Theory and Practice. The third edition of this
widely respected manual of best practice is even more comprehensive than
the first edition, which won the 1992 ASIS Best Information Science Book
Award. Fully revised to address changes since 1998--especially in the
areas of multimedia sources, text searching, automatic indexing, and the
Internet--this edition is illustrated throughout with useful indexing and
abstracting guidelines for student and pracitioner. Covered areas include:

* indexing principles and practice
* pre-coordinate indexes
* consistency and quality of indexing
* types and functions of abstracts
* writing an abstract
* evaluation theory and practice
* approaches used in indexing and abstracting services
* indexing enhancement
* natural language in information retrieval
* indexing and abstracting of imaginative works
* databases of images and sound
* automatic indexing and abstracting
* the future of indexing and abstracting services

In addition to use as a text, Indexing and Abstracting in Theory and
Practice holds value for all individuals and institutions involved in
training for information retrieval and related activities, including
practicing library and information professionals, database producers,
those engaged in portal design, and all professionals involved in
knowledge management in general.

F. W. Lancaster, professor emeritus at the University of Illinois Graduate
School of Library and Information Science, is the recipient of numerous
awards for his books in the field of library and information science. The
first edition of Indexing and Abstracting in Theory and Practice, which
appeared in 1991, won the "Best Information Science Book Award" in 1992
from the American Society for Information Science. An additional three of
his books have earned this ASIS "Best Book" award, and another two have
received awards from the American Library Association. Technology and
Management in Library and Information Services (co-authored with Beth
Sandore) is listed on Library Journal’s 1998 best professional reading
list.  Professor Lancaster is the editor of  Library Trends, the premier
thematic quarterly journal in the field of American librarianship,
produced by the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at the
University of Illinois.

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