School of Information Management and Systems. Spring 2001.

296a-4 Seminar: Documents in Society.
Niels Windfeld Lund & Michael Buckland.

Program -- Subject to change!
See Schedule for a detailed calendar of assignments and handouts.
Depending on who enrols, occasional longer blocks of time might be scheduled.

Introduction:
Jan 23: General introduction to the seminar.
Jan 30: Introductory lecture: "The documenting of human beings: A documenting perspective on human life."

I. Conceptual Traditions
Feb 6: a. The notions of documentation, information and communication
Feb.13 & 20: b. The notion of documentation.
Feb 27: c. The notion of document

II. A Science of Documentation:
Mar 6: a. Document studies within three scientific worlds
    b. A complementary science
    c. A science of technê.

III. The Process of Documentation:
Mar 13 - 20: Production of documents.
Apr 3: Organization of documents.
Apr 10: Use of documents.

IV. Workshop on Forms of Documentation:
Apr 24, May 1, & May 8:
    a. Books, tables and walls
    b. Images, plasticity and sound.
    c. Bureaucracy.
    d. Art, science and mass media.
    e. Ways of life.