Nature of 'A Work'

Richard Smiraglia is Professor at Palmer School of Library and Information Science, Long Island University (Brookville, NY).

I can highly recommend this book to library science professors, catalogers, and information organization experts as a seminal work on this topic, one that will guide and direct future research in this area for many years to come.

• Part 1 What Is the Nature of a Work?Chapter 2 The Bibliographic UniverseChapter 3 Works and the Design of Bibliographic Retrieval SystemsChapter 4 Works and TextsChapter 5 The Digital Imperative: What Is an Electronic Work?Chapter 6 How Do We Answer the Question: What Is the Nature of a Work?Part 7 The Concept of the Work in Anglo-American Cataloging: An Historical NarrativeChapter 8 A Multiplicity of EditionsChapter 9 The "Literary Unit"Chapter 10 The International Conference on Cataloguing Principles (1961)Chapter 11 Defining "The Work"Chapter 12 From Multiplicity to Bibliographic RelationshipsPart 13 Bibliographic Relationships Give Parameters to the Concept of a WorkChapter 14 The Humphrey Clinker EffectChapter 15 A Taxonomy of Bibliographic RelationshipsChapter 16 A Taxonomy of DerivationChapter 17 Functional Requirements for Bibliographic RecordsChapter 18 Toward Consensus on the Concept of the WorkPart 19 Reflections on the Creative Task: Linguistics, Philosophy, Semiotics, and BibliographyChapter 20 Works as Vehicles for CommunicationChapter 21 Volatility of Works—Varieties of Perception in Reception of WorksChapter 22 Volatility of Texts—Changes in Representation of WorksChapter 23 Evolution in the Creatorship of WorksChapter 24 A Work Is a Cultural PhenomenonPart 25 Defining the Work in Quantitative TermsChapter 26 Early Research Indicating the Presence of Derivative Bibliographic RelationshipsChapter 27 Research Describing Derivative Bibliographic RelationshipsChapter 28 Works in LibrariesChapter 29 The Incidence of Derivative Bibliographic RelationshipsChapter 30 Characteristics of Works with Bibliographic FamiliesChapter 31 Summarizing the DataPart 32 The Constitution of Bibliographic FamiliesChapter 33 Qualitative Analysis of Bibliographic FamiliesChapter 34 Evolution of WorksPart 35 Toward a Theory of the WorkChapter 36 The Paradigm of the WorkChapter 37 The Social Role of WorksChapter 38 The Quantitative EvidenceChapter 39 Methodological ImplicationsChapter 40 The Parameters of a Theory of the WorkChapter 41 Implications for Knowledge OrganizationChapter 42 Conclusion