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

Schedule.
Readings, assignments, and exercises should be completed by class-time on the date listed.   See also Intended Plan.

May 15: Exercise 8: Library Cataloging: AACR2 and ISBD due.
May 8: Second test.
May 3: Discussion of Critiques.
May 1: Assignment 9: Critique of topical access due. Dewey Classification. Critiques.
Apr 26: Guest: Fredric Gey, UCDATA: Organizing numeric data.
Apr 24: Exercise 7: Dewey Classification and Call Numbers due.
Apr 19: Assignment 9: Critique: Brief progress report due.
Apr 19: Read Taylor Glossary.
Apr 17: Assignment 8: Database and Manual due.
Apr 12: Guest Rich Rinehart: Organization of museum collections.
Apr 12: Assignment 7: Thesaurus due.
Apr 10: Handout, 4 pages, on classification and cutter numbers.
Apr 10: Read Taylor chaps 9 & 10 & Conclusion.
Apr 10: Exercise 6: Entry vocabulary Indexes due.
Apr 10: Assignment 8: Database: Printout of table due.
Apr 5: Video on Paul Otlet: Alle Kennis van de Wereld.
Apr 5: Assignment 9: Critique: Brief explanation of topic due.
Apr 5: Thesaurus topic and sample of terms due.
Apr 3: Handout: Syntax in retrieval.
Apr 3: Database sample record due.
Apr 3: Read Taylor chap 8.
Mar 27 & 29: Spring Break.
Mar 22: Read Taylor chap 6.
Mar 20: Test. Loosely resembling is290-1-s99.
Mar 17 (sic, or earlier): Assignment 6. Social Aspects of Naming due.
Mar 20: Recommended reading: Buckland. Filing, Filtering, and the First Few Found.
Mar 13: Read Taylor chap 5.
Mar 13: Recommended reading: Buckland. Searches in a collection.
Mar 8: Handout: Ordering and Filtering.
Mar 6: Handout: Verbal Access.
Mar 6: Assignment 5. Languages in MARC (incl. Tutorial) due.
Mar 6: Read Taylor chap 4.
Mar 1: Handout: Faceted Classification (Wynar Introduction pp 372-4.
Mar 1: Handout: Searchers' Objectives.
Mar 1: Exercise 5. MELVYL's other databases (Incl. J. Milstead article) due.
Feb 28: Handout: MARC Remarks.
Feb 28: Read Taylor chap 3.
Feb 23: Read: Buckland. The Purposes of Collections.
Feb 23: Exercise 4: Thesauri due.
Feb 23: Batty. WWW --- Wealth, Weariness or Waste.
Feb 23: Read Taylor chap 7: Verbal Subject Analysis.
Feb 21: NO CLASS -- Presidents Day.
Feb 16: Handout: Roles of collections.
Feb 16: Assignment 4: Dublin Core due.
Feb 14 & 16: Discuss Thesaurus construction; Facets; Purpose.
Feb 14: Read Taylor chap 2: Retrieval Tools.
Feb 9: Handout Summary of Dublin Core
Feb 9: Exercise 3: Subject access in the MELVYL Catalog due.
Feb 7: Handout: Table of Assignment 2 descriptive fields.
Feb 7: Handout: Annotated MARC display of Buckland's Curiosities.
Feb 7: Read Taylor chap 1: Organization of Human Endeavors.
Feb 7: Assignment 3. Abstracting & indexing services due.
Feb 4: Handout: Subject access in the MELVYL catalog.
Feb 4: Handout: Description: Objects, Attributes, and Values .
Feb 2: Exercise 2: Names in MELVYL due.
Feb 2: Read Buckland What is a document? JASIS 48 (1997) 804-809.
Feb 2: Optional reading: Buckland Information as Thing JASIS 42 (1991): 351-360.
Jan 31: Read Buckland & Plaunt On the construction of selection systems.
Jan 31: Assignment 2: Describe four books due.
Jan 26: Assignment 1: Me & 245 due.
Jan 26: Exercise 1: MELVYL due.
Jan 19: Introduction.