我们的社会是一个“信息爆炸”的社会,虽然我们生活在信息的包围之中,但往往仍感觉到信息的匮乏。这是什么原因?除了信息通道是否畅通外,更重要的一个因素就是许多信息缺乏有效的组织,使人们难以方便、迅速的获取。随着网络的日益普及,信息资源的合理有效组织显得更加重要,正是在这样一种背景下,武汉大学信息资源研究中心周宁教授等不失时机的推出了他们的力作——《信息组织》,可以认为,这是一本面向21世纪的著作。阅读了全书,我感到它是一本有关信息资源组织方面的理论与实际充分结合的著作,该书有许多值得称道的地方,笔者略举一二。 面对多元化的信息资源,尤其是数字化的信息资源,其合理组织要求工作人员有较强的专业知识和扎实的理论基础。然而,在此前却少见系统阐述数字化信息资源组织的书籍,周 Our society is an “information explosion” society. Although we live in the surrounded by information, we often feel the lack of information. What is the reason? Apart from the smooth flow of information, a more important factor is that many of the information is lacking in effective organization, making it difficult for people to obtain information conveniently and quickly. With the increasing popularity of the Internet, reasonable and effective organization of information resources becomes more and more important. It is against this background that Professor Zhou Ning, an information resource research center at Wuhan University, launched their masterpiece “Information Organization” Can think that this is a book for the 21st century. Read the book, I feel it is a book on the organization of information resources on the theory and practice of the full integration of the book, there are many commendable places the book, the author briefly one or two. Faced with diversified information resources, especially digital information resources, its reasonable organization requires that staff have strong professional knowledge and solid theoretical foundation. However, there was a rare precedent for systematically elaborating books on digital information resources organized by Zhou