School of Information Management & Systems. Spring 2001.
245 Organization of Information in Collections.   Michael Buckland.

Schedule.
Readings, assignments, and exercises should be completed by class-time on the date listed.   The schedule will resemble the Spring 2000 Schedule. See also Intended Plan.

May 7: Last class.
May 7: Critique of Topical Access: Written Report.
May 2: In-class, closed book exam.
May 2: Scan Taylor's Glossary, pp 233-254.
Apr 30: Critique of Topical Access: Progress reports.
Apr 25: Guest: Avi Rappoport, Searchtools.com: Categories and searching in websites.
Apr 23: Handout: Bibliographic Style.
Apr 23: Handout: Library cataloging.
Apr 23: Handout: Verbal Access.
Apr 18: Guest: Fredric Gey: Collections of numeric data.
Apr 18: Read Taylor chapter 10: Systems design & 11: Conclusion.
Apr 16: Assignment 13: Entry Vocabulary Indexes.
Apr 16: Read Taylor chapter 9: Arrangement and Display.
Apr 11: Critique of Topical Access: Progress report.
Apr 11: Guest: Richard Rinehart: Museum collections.
Apr 9: Handout: Searchers' Objectives.
Apr 9: Assignment 10D: Unusual Collection: Webpage due.
Apr 9: Roles of Collections.
Apr 4: Handout: Facetted classification.
Apr 4: Read Taylor 8: Classification.
Apr 4: Assignment 11B: Thesaurus due.
Apr 4: Critique of Topical Access discussed.
Apr 2: Inclass exercise: Back of book indexes.
Apr 2: Read Davenport & Cronin Knowledge Management: Semantic Drift or Conceptual Shift?
Apr 2: Assignment 10C: Unusual Collection: Queries and Manual due.
Mar 21, 26 & 28: No class meeting.
Mar 19: Read Taylor chapter 6.
Mar 19: Read Taylor chapter 7.
Mar 19: Assignment 11A: Thesaurus: Topic & Sample due.
Mar 19: Assignment 10B: Unusual Collection: Table due.
Mar 14: Read Taylor chap 5.
Mar 12: Assignment 10A: Unusual Collection: Data-structure, sample record due.
Mar 7: Handout: MARC Remarks.
Mar 7: Encoding: SGML, MARC, structured visual display. Handouts (Binder).
Mar 5: Assignment 9: The Dublin Core due.
Feb 28: Read Taylor chap 4.
Feb 26: Read Taylor chap 3.
Feb 26: Assignment 8: Social Aspects of Naming due.
Feb 21: Assignment 7: Use a Thesaurus due.
Feb 21: Read Taylor, chap 2.
Feb 19: No class. University holiday.
Feb 14: Assignment 6: Subject Access: Melvyl due.
Feb 14: Assignment 5: Abstracting and Indexing Services due.
Feb 12: Read Buckland & Plaunt On the construction of selection systems.
Feb 7: Handout: Subject Access in the Melvyl catalog.
Feb 7: Read Taylor, chapter 1.
Feb 7: Assignment 4: Preferred Forms of Names due.
Jan 31: Assignment 3: Describe four books due.
Jan 31: Read Buckland What is a document? JASIS 48 (1997) 804-809.
Jan 31: Optional reading: Buckland Information as Thing JASIS 42 (1991): 351-360.
Jan 31: Assignment 2: MELVYL catalog due.
Jan 29: Assignment 1: Me and 245 due.
Jan 29: Collections, sets. Ordering.
Jan 29: Handout: "Telephone Numbers, Match-making."
Jan 24: Handout: Description: Objects, Attributes, and Values.
Jan 22: First class meeting. Introduction. Organizing Information.