Introduction to Indexing and Abstracting

xiii, 329 pp. A revision of the 1983 edition of a text/reference with new sections on online services, computer-aided indexing, and expert systems. The Clevelands (both at the U. of North Texas library school) describe the nature of information, the nature and types of indices and abstracts, vocabulary control, methods and procedures, techniques of document description (unchanged in this edition), automation, services.