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Essential Thesaurus Construction.(Book review)

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| September 01, 2006 | Salmond, Rachel | COPYRIGHT 2007 Australian Library and Information Association. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

Essential Thesaurus Construction by Vanda Broughton. London Facet Publishing 2006 296p ISBN-10 1-85604-565-X

In a review for Australian Library Journal of the 4th edition of Thesaurus Construction and Use* I noted that in 2001 there was a strong demand in Australia for information professionals with a thorough understanding of the underpinning principles of classification and thesaurus construction, and that any well-educated librarian should have a basic understanding of these principles, which that book could provide. Broughton describes her book as 'a rather simpler version' of Thesaurus Construction and Use, and she devotes much more space to the task of building…

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