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Broader terms:Related term:Used for:- Abstract writing
- Précis writing
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Précis Writing for Beginners (London: Blackie and Son, ca.1917), by Guy Noel Pocock (multiple formats at archive.org)- A Progressive Course of Précis Writing (1913), by Frederick Eden Robeson (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Indexing and Précis Writing (London: Macmillan, 1908), by G. B. Beak (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The Usefulness of Analytic Abstracts (1922), by Gordon S. Fulcher (multiple formats at archive.org)
Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.
Filed under: Annotating, Book -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.- Creating an Annotation: A Manual on Writing and Editing Annotations (revised and expanded edition, 2003), by Vicki Fitzpatrick (PDF and text at loc.gov)
- Content Analysis: A Handbook With Applications for the Study of International Crisis (Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 1963), by Robert C. North, Ole R. Holsti, M. George Zaninovich, and Dina A. Zinnes (page images at HathiTrust)
- Fantasy Classification System (first edition; Winnipeg, c1952), by A. G. W. Cameron (page images at fanac.org)
- The Best Books: A Reader's Guide to the Choice of the Best Available Books (About 50,000) in Every Department of Science, Art and Literature, With the Dates of the First and Last Editions and the Price, Size, and Publisher's Name of Each Book (second edition, corrected; London: Swan Sonnenschein and Co.; et al., 1901), by William Swan Sonnenschein
- Library of Congress Classification Outline (current edition), by Library of Congress (multiple formats at loc.gov)
- A Reader's Guide to Contemporary Literature: Being the First Supplement to The Best Books (London: S. Sonnenschein and Co.; New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1895), by William Swan Sonnenschein (page images at HathiTrust)
- Fantasy Fiction Decimal Classification (reprinted as a supplement to Dynatron 25; Albuquerque, NM: R. Tackett, ca. 1964), by Jack Speer (PDF at fanac.org)
- Fantasy Fiction Decimal Classification (reprinted as a supplement to Dynatron 25; Albuquerque, NM: R. Tackett, ca. 1964), by Jack Speer (PDF at fanac.org)
- Water: A Classification Scheme (Archives Series Report #19; Berkeley: Water Resources Center, University of California, 1967), by Gerald J. Giefer and Water Resources Center Archives (Calif.) (page images at HathiTrust)
- List of Subject Headings for Small Libraries, Including Practical Suggestions for the Beginner in Subject Heading Work (fourth edition reprinted; New York: H. W. Wilson Co., 1941), ed. by Minnie Earl Sears, contrib. by Isabel Stevenson Monro (page images at HathiTrust)
- Decimal Clasification and Relativ Index for Libraries and Personal Use in Arranjing for Immediate Reference Books, Pamflets, Clippings, Pictures, Manuscript Notes and Other Material (11th edition, 1922), by Melvil Dewey
- Dewey Decimal Classification, Centennial 1876-1976, by Melvil Dewey (Gutenberg text)
- Library of Congress Classification Outline (current edition), by Library of Congress (multiple formats at loc.gov)
- List of Subject Headings for Small Libraries, Including Practical Suggestions for the Beginner in Subject Heading Work (fourth edition reprinted; New York: H. W. Wilson Co., 1941), ed. by Minnie Earl Sears, contrib. by Isabel Stevenson Monro (page images at HathiTrust)
- List of Subject Headings for Small Libraries, Compiled From Lists Used in Nine Representative Small Libraries (third edition; New York: H. W. Wilson Co., 1933), ed. by Minnie Earl Sears (page images at HathiTrust)
- List of Subject Headings for Small Libraries, Compiled From Lists Used in Nine Representative Small Libraries (second edition reprinted; New York: H. W. Wilson Co., 1928), ed. by Minnie Earl Sears (page images at HathiTrust)
- Catalogue of the Library of the Peabody Institute of the City of Baltimore (5 volumes; Baltimore: Press of I. Friedenwald, 1883-1892), by Johns Hopkins University Peabody Institute Library
- Second Catalogue of the Library of the Peabody Institute of the City of Baltimore, Including the Additions Made Since 1882 (8 volumes, 1896-1905), by Johns Hopkins University Peabody Institute Library
- all volumes: page images at HathiTrust
- Part I (A-B): multiple formats at archive.org
- Part II (C-D): multiple formats at archive.org
- Part III (E-G): multiple formats at archive.org
- Part IV (H-K): multiple formats at archive.org
- Part V (L-M): multiple formats at archive.org
- Part VI (N-R): multiple formats at archive.org
- Part VII (S-T): multiple formats at archive.org
- Part VIII (U-Z): multiple formats at archive.org
- Water: A Subject Heading List (Archives Series Report #18; Berkeley: Water Resources Center, University of California, 1967), by Gerald J. Giefer and Water Resources Center Archives (Calif.) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Introduction to Controlled Vocabularies: Terminology for Art, Architecture, and Other Cultural Works (Los Angeles: Getty Research Institute, c2010), by Patricia Harpring (page images and PDF with commentary at getty.edu and Google)
- Introduction to Controlled Vocabularies: Terminology for Art, Architecture, and Other Cultural Works (Los Angeles: Getty Research Institute, c2010), by Patricia Harpring (page images and PDF with commentary at getty.edu and Google)
- Thesaurus for Graphic Materials, ed. by Elisabeth Betz Parker and Helena Zinkham
- Introduction to Art Image Access: Issues, Tools, Standards, and Strategies (Los Angeles: Getty Information Institute, c2002), ed. by Murtha Baca, contrib. by Patricia Harpring, Colum Hourihane, Sara Shatford Layne, and Christine L. Sundt (PDF and page images with commentary at getty.edu and Google)
- Prejudices and Antipathies: A Tract on the LC Subject Heads Concerning People (second edition; Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 1993), by Sanford Berman (PDF files at sanfordberman.org)
- Introduction to Controlled Vocabularies: Terminology for Art, Architecture, and Other Cultural Works (Los Angeles: Getty Research Institute, c2010), by Patricia Harpring (page images and PDF with commentary at getty.edu and Google)
- Introduction to Vocabularies: Enhancing Access to Cultural Heritage Information (Los Angeles: Getty Information Institute, c1998), by Elisa Lanzi (page images and PDF with commentary at getty.edu and Google)
- Prejudices and Antipathies: A Tract on the LC Subject Heads Concerning People (second edition; Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 1993), by Sanford Berman (PDF files at sanfordberman.org)
- Water: A Subject Heading List (Archives Series Report #18; Berkeley: Water Resources Center, University of California, 1967), by Gerald J. Giefer and Water Resources Center Archives (Calif.) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Thesaurus for Graphic Materials, ed. by Elisabeth Betz Parker and Helena Zinkham
- Prejudices and Antipathies: A Tract on the LC Subject Heads Concerning People (second edition; Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 1993), by Sanford Berman (PDF files at sanfordberman.org)
- Library of Congress Subject Headings: Principles of Structure and Policies for Application (based on the 1990 edition), by Lois Mai Chan, contrib. by Library of Congress
- Introduction to Art Image Access: Issues, Tools, Standards, and Strategies (Los Angeles: Getty Information Institute, c2002), ed. by Murtha Baca, contrib. by Patricia Harpring, Colum Hourihane, Sara Shatford Layne, and Christine L. Sundt (PDF and page images with commentary at getty.edu and Google)
- Documentarity: Evidence, Ontology, and Inscription (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, c2019), by Ronald E. Day (HTML with commentary at MIT Press)
- Archives, Documentation, and Institutions of Social Memory: Essays From the Sawyer Seminar (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2006), ed. by Francis X. Blouin and William G. Rosenberg (page images at HathiTrust)
- Annals of Library and Information Studies (open access from 2002-) (partial serial archives)
- American Documentation (partial serial archives)
- Current Research and Development in Scientific Documentation (full serial archives)
- Archives, Documentation, and Institutions of Social Memory: Essays From the Sawyer Seminar (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2006), ed. by Francis X. Blouin and William G. Rosenberg (page images at HathiTrust)
- Fly Leaves: or, Scraps and Sketches, Literary, Bibliographical and Miscellaneous, Consisting of Notes on Antiquarian and Historical Subjects, Collections Towards Neglected Biography, Memorials of Old London, Choice Specimens of Ancient Poetry, Chiefly From Unpublished Mss., Scraps and Sketches, Curious and Interesting, With Numerous Bibliographical Notices, etc., etc. (London: J. Miller, 1854) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Old Picture Books, With Other Essays on Bookish Subjects (Londen: Methuen and Co., 1902), by Alfred W. Pollard (page images at CMU)
- The Book Fancier: or, The Romance of Book Collecting (London: S. Low, Marston, Searle, and Rivington, 1886), by Percy Fitzgerald (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Book Fancier: or, The Romance of Book Collecting (second edition, revised; London: S. Low, Marston, Searle, and Rivington, 1887), by Percy Fitzgerald (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Censura Literaria: Containing Titles, Abstracts, and Opinions of Old English Books (10 volumes; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1805-1809), by Egerton Brydges (page images at HathiTrust)
- How to Use Duplicating Machines (New York et al.: Gregg Pub. Co., c1945), by E. W. Alexander (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
- Manual On Methods of Reproducing Research Materials: A Survey Made for the Joint Committee on Materials for Research of the Social Science Research Council and the American Council of Learned Societies (Ann Arbor: Edwards Bros., 1936), by Robert C. Binkley (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Introduction to Information Retrieval (prepublication version; 2008), by Christopher D. Manning, Prabhakar Raghavan, and Hinrich Schütze (HTML and PDF with commentary at Stanford)
- Systems of Knowledge Organization for Digital Libraries: Beyond Traditional Authority Files (2000), by Gail M. Hodge (PDF at clir.org)
- Introduction to Controlled Vocabularies: Terminology for Art, Architecture, and Other Cultural Works (Los Angeles: Getty Research Institute, c2010), by Patricia Harpring (page images and PDF with commentary at getty.edu and Google)
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