School of Information Management & Systems. Spring 2001.
245 Organization of Information in Collections.
Michael Buckland
Readings -- DRAFT.
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
Cleveland, Donald B. & Ana D. Cleveland. Introduction to Indexing
and Abstracting. 3rd ed. Libraries Unlimited.
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 Excellent introduction even though outdated on details.
Taylor, Arlene. Wynar's Introduction to Cataloging and Classification.
9th edition.
Littleton, Colo.: Libraries Unlimited, 2000. MAIN Z693.W94 2000
Basic text for library cataloging.
RELATED COURSES
OTHER
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.
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
MAIN Z699.35.M28 H34 1991