Pioneering North American Contributions to Knowledge Organization. (2009). Elin K. Jacob, Elin K. and Barbara Kwasnik (Eds.) North American Symposium on Knowledge Organization, Vol 2.

Papers:

Classical pragmatism and its varieties: On a pluriform metatheoretical perspective for KO. by Thomas M. Dousa, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Tensions between language and discourse in North American knowledge organization. by D. Grant Campbell, University of Western Ontario.

North American facet heritage: Past lessons as pathways for contemporary exploration? by Kathryn La Barre, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

User-Centered Paradigm to Cataloging Standards in Theory and Practice: Problems and Prospects. by Gretchen L. Hoffman, Texas Womans University.

Modulation and specialization in North American knowledge organization: Visualizing pioneers. by Richard P. Smiraglia, Long Island University.

Treatment of georeferencing in knowledge organization systems. by Olha Buchel, The University of Western Ontario & Linda L. Hill, University of California, Santa Barbara (retired).

The KO roots of Taylor's value-added model. by David M. Pimentel, Syracuse University.

The data-information-knowledge-wisdom hierarchy and its antithesis. by Jay H. Bernstein, Kingsborough Community College.

Evolutionary order in the classification theories of C. A. Cutter & E. C. Richardson: Its nature and limits. by Thomas M. Dousa, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Melvil Dewey's ingenious notational system. by Rebecca Green, Dewey Decimal Classification, Online Computer Library Center, Inc.