School of Information Management & Systems. Spring 2000.
245 Organization of Information in Collections.   Michael Buckland

Readings   Read by class time on date specified. Schedule.

TEXTBOOK
Arlene Taylor. The Organization of Information. Libraries Unlimited, 1999. Paperback $36 approx. MAIN Graduate Services Reserve Z666.5.T39 1999
Chaps 1-3 & 7 by 2/28.
REQUIRED READINGS: Copy of each in Big Black Binder.

Jan 31: Buckland & Plaunt: On the construction of selection systems. Library Hi Tech 12, no. 4 (1994): 15-28.
Feb 2: Buckland What is a document? JASIS 48 (1997) 804-809.
Feb 21: David Batty. WWW --- Wealth, Weariness or Waste: Controlled vocabulary and thesauri in support of online information access. D-Lib Magazine November 1998.
Feb 23: Buckland, Michael. The Purposes of Collections.
Mar 1: Morville, Peter. Building a synonymous search index
Mar 1: Morville, Peter How Do You Build a Thesaurus?
RECOMMENDED READINGS: Copy of each in Big Black Binder.
Feb 2: Buckland Information as Thing JASIS 42 (1991): 351-360.
Mar 13: Buckland. Searches in a Collection.
Mar 20: Buckland. Filing, Filtering, and the First Few Found.

RESOURCES FOR 245.

American Society of Indexer's website www.asindexing.org/

Berman, Sanford. Prejudices and antipathies: a tract on the LC subject headings concerning people. Metuchen, N.J. : Scarecrow Press, 1971. Z695.U36 B45

Dublin Core Metadata Element Set, Version 1.1: Reference Description.

Mills, Jack. A Modern Outline of Library Classification. London: Chapman & Hall, 1964. Excellent introduction even though outdated on details.

Wynar, Bohdan S. Introduction to cataloging and classification. 8th edition. Edited by Arlene G. Taylor. Littleton, Colo.: Libraries Unlimited, 1992. Basic text for library cataloging. Z693.W94 1992


OTHER -- This list is out-of-date and will be replaced / updated.

Aluri, Rao. Subject analysis in online catalogs. Englewood, Colorado: Libraries Unlimited, 1991. Z699.35.S92 A46 1991.

Austin, Derek and Dykstra, Mary. PRECIS: a manual of concept analysis and subject indexing. London: Bibliographic Services Division, BL, 1984. Z695.92.A86 1984.

Bengston, Betty G. and Janet Swan Hill, eds. Classification of library materials: a current and future potential for providing access. New York: Neal-Schuman Publishers, 1990. Z696.A4 C69 1990.

David C. Blair. Will it Scale up? Thoughts About Intellectual Access in the Electronic Networks. ARL-AAUP Symposium Scholarly Publishing on the Electronic Networks, 1993.

Borko, Harold and Bernier, Charles L. Indexing Concepts and Methods. Z 695.9 B653

Bryant, Philip. Keyword Catalogues and the Free Index Approach. Z 695 K49 1985

Carpenter, Michael and Elaine Svenonius, eds. Foundations of cataloging: a sourcebook. Littleton, Colo.: Libraries Unlimited, 1985. Z693.F681 1985.

Chan, Lois Mai. Cataloging and classification: an introduction. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1981. Z693.C437.

Chan, Lois Mai. Library of Congress subject headings: principles and applications. 2nd edition. Littleton, Colo.: Libraries Unlimited, 1986. Z695.C521 1986.

Chan, Lois Mai. Library of Congress subject headings: principles of structure and application. Annotated version. Washington, D.C.: Cataloging Distribution Service, Library of Congress, 1991. Z695.Z8 L5228 1990 REFERENCE.

Chan, Lois Mai, Phyllis A. Richmond and Elaine Svenonius, eds. Theory of subject analysis: a sourcebook. Littleton, Colo.: Libraries Unlimited, 1985. Z695.T4851 1985.

Clack, Doris H. Authority control: principles, applications, and instructions. Chicago: ALA, 1990. Z693.3A88 1990.

Cochrane, Pauline Atherton. Redesign of Catalogs and Indexes for Improved Online Subject Access: Selected Papers of Pauline A. Cochrane. Z 695 C6471 1985

Crawford, Walt. MARC for library use: understanding the USMARC formats. White Plains, N.Y.: Knowledge Industry Publications, 1989. Z699.4.M2.C721 1989.

Dykstra, Mary. PRECIS: a primer. Revised reprint. Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press, 1987. Z695.915.P73.D91 1987.

Foskett, A. C. The Subject Approach to Information. Fourth Edition. Hamden, Connecticut: Linnet Books, 1982.

Hagler, Ronald. The bibliographic record and information technology. Chicago: ALA, 1991 Z699.35.M28 H34 1991

Hildreth, Charles. The online catalogue: developments and directions. London: Library Association, 1989. Z699.22.055 1989.

Immroth, John P. Immroth's guide to the Library of Congress classification. 4th edition. Edited by Lois Mai Chan. Littleton, Colo.: Libraries Unlimited, 1990. Z696.U4 C47 1990.

Lancaster, F. Wilfred. Indexing and abstracting in theory and practice. Champaign, Illinois: University of Illinois, 1991. Z695.9.L36 1991.

Lancaster, F. Wilfred. Vocabulary control for information retrieval. 2nd edition.Arlington, Virginia: Information Resource Press, 1986. Z699 L245 1986.

Leong, Carol L. H. Serials cataloging handbook: an illustrative guide to the use of AACR 2 and LC rule interpretations. Chicago: ALA, 1989. Z695.7.L471 1989

Markey, Karen. Subject searching in library catalogs: before and after the introduction of online catalogs. Dublin, Ohio: OCLC, 1984. Z95 M344 1984.

Osborn, Andrew D. Serial publications: their place and treatment in libraries. 3rd edition. Chicago: ALA, 1980. Z692.S5.08.

Rogers, JoAnn V. and Jerry D. Saye. Nonprint cataloging for multimedia collections: a guide based on AACR2. 2nd edition. Littleton, Colo.: Libraries Unlimited, 1987. Z695.66.R63 1987

Saffady, William. Introduction to automation for librarians. 2nd edition. 1989. Z678.9.S251 1989.

Soergel, Dagobert. Indexing Languages and Thesaurii: Construction and Maintenance. [DATE?] Z 695.9 S631

Svenonius, Elaine ed. The conceptual foundations of descriptive cataloging. San Diego: Academic Press, 1989. Z694.A15 C66 1989.


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