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Volume 105, Issue 11-12
1 November 2004
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Review Article| November 01 2004

The way that information professionals describe their own discipline: a comparison of thesaurus descriptors

Michael Middleton
Senior Lecturer in the School of Information Systems at the Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia
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Publisher: Emerald Publishing
Online ISSN: 1758-6909
Print ISSN: 0307-4803
© Emerald Group Publishing Limited
2004
New Library World (2004) 105 (11-12): 429–435.
https://doi.org/10.1108/03074800410568770

A brief discussion of discipline formation in information management is used to introduce the way different terminology is employed for describing information professionals as well as what it is that they do. This leads to a comparison of how information professionals and their professions are described in several of the thesauri that are the tools of the trade. These thesauri show marked differences in treatment of similar concepts.

Keywords: Controlled language construction, Job descriptions, Information profession, Information management
© Emerald Group Publishing Limited
2004
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