Product Description: Use this single source to uncover the origin and development of the thesaurus! The Thesaurus: Review, Renaissance, and Revision examines the historical development of the thesaurus and the standards employed for thesaurus construction...read more

Product Description: Prevent information overload with better indexing and retrieval strategies!In the fast-changing world of the Internet, the skills of the librarian are indispensable for managing the overwhelming amount of available data. Internet Searching and Indexing examines the tools and procedures available now and for the future that will help librarians, students, and patrons search the Internet more systematically, while helping information professionals design more efficient, effective search engines and Web pages...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This volume provides a survey of the principal features of segmental phonology in the dialects of Welsh, and includes some morphophonology and morphology. It presents the data of five years of extensive fieldwork and contains 700 pages of data sets and appendices. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Cataloging and Classification: Trends, Transformations, Teaching, and Training indicates and describes significant trends in cataloging and classification--the practices, services, management, principles, professional education and training, and employment prospects...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This new book explores a wide range of options surrounding the choice and application of library and bibliographic classification systems. It provides detailed descriptions of alternative provisions in the much-used Dewey Decimal and Library of Congress classification systems, as well as descriptions and discussions of several alternative systems, such as Bliss Bibliographic, Universal Decimal, and Reader-Interest...read more

Product Description: This sociolinguistic perspective on Wales takes account of both principal languages, in contemporary life and in history. It traces the conflicts and mutual influences of the two languages in shaping the sociolinguistic character of Wales and traces the way in which it has simultaneously come to function, for many Welsh people, as a vehicle for cultural continuity, the means to an Anglo-Welsh identity...read more