Resources

Books

Thesaurus Construction and Use: A Practical Manual
by Jean Aitchison, Alan Gilchrist, David Bawden
3rd Edition, September 2000, ISBN: 1579582737
[Available from Amazon, $65.00]

Organizing Knowledge: An Introduction to Managing Access to Information
by Jennifer Rowley, John Farrow
3rd Edition, June 2000, ISBN: 0566080478
[Available from Amazon, $44.95]

The Mother Tongue: English & How It Got That Way
by Bill Bryson
March 1996, ISBN: 0380715430
[Available from Amazon, $12.60]

Guides & Lists

Publications on Thesaurus Construction and Use (Willpower)
http://www.willpower.demon.co.uk/thesbibl.htm

Software for Building & Editing Thesauri (Willpower)
http://www.willpower.demon.co.uk/thessoft.htm

Controlled Vocabularies Resource Guide (Queensland University of Technology)
http://www.fit.qut.edu.au/InfoSys/middle/cont_voc.html

Standards

NISO Standards and Technical Reports
http://www.niso.org/stantech.html

International Organization for Standardization
http://www.iso.ch/

Techstreet (to order standards online)
http://www.techstreet.com/

Classification Schemes

Dewey Decimal Classification
http://www.oclc.org/oclc/fp/index.htm

Library of Congress Classification
http://lcweb.loc.gov/catdir/cpso/lcco/lcco.html

Articles & Presentations

Multilingual Thesaurus Construction (by Michele Hudon)
Information Services and Use (ISSN: 0167-5265), Vol.17 No.2/3, 1997, p.111-123.

Controlled Vocabulary and the Internet Conference (CENDI Presentations Archive)
http://www.dtic.mil/cendi/pres_arc.html

Bicentennial Conference on Bibliographic Control for the New Millennium
http://lcweb.loc.gov/catdir/bibcontrol/

Use of Thesauri in the Full-Text Environment (by Jessica L. Milstead)
http://www.jelem.com/useoff.htm