School of Information Management & Systems. Spring 2002.
245 Organization of Information in Collections.   Michael Buckland.

Intended Plan. -- Expect changes.   See Schedule.

TOPICS TO BE COVERED
Jan 23: Introduction: Why? Information ("Documents"). Collections (Sets). Organizing ("Ordering").
Jan 28 & 30: Content formats and communications formats. MARC.
Feb 4 & 6: Documents, Collections, & Ordering (arrangement).
Feb 11 & 13: Searching, selecting. Representations, AACRII: Books.
Feb 18 & 20: Representations: Other materials.
Feb 25 & 27: Choice of Access Points. Main entry.
Mar 4 & 6: Authority Control. Personal names.
Mar 11 & 13: Corporate names. Uniform Titles.
Mar 18 & 20: Subject Access. LCSH
Mar 25 & 27: SPRING BREAK
Apr 1 & 3: Classification.
Apr 8 & 10: Metadata Standards. Entry vocabulary mappings.
Apr 15 & 17: Thesaurus Design and Development.
Apr 22 & 24: Automatic Categorization.
Apr 29, May 1: Indexing.
May 6, 8, & 13: Synthesis and reports.

TENTATIVE DUE-DATES FOR EXERCISES AND ASSIGNMENTS
Jan 28 & 30: Me & 245; MELVYL Basic; Describe four documents.
Feb 4 & 6: Names in MELVYL; Abstracting & Indexing Services.
Feb 11 & 13: Subject representation in LSCH (MELVYL & Berman).
Feb 18 & 20: Thesauri.
Feb 25 & 27: Dublin Core compliance.
Mar 4 & 6: Melvyl's other databases; MARC language coding.
Mar 11 & 13: Design of personal database.
Mar 18 & 20: Deliver database.
Mar 25 & 27: SPRING BREAK Apr 1 & 3: Cataloging (AACR2 & ISBD).
Apr 8 & 10: Classification (Dewey).
Apr 15 & 17: Entry vocabulary indexes.
Apr 22 & 24: Critique of access.
Apr 29, May 1: Progress on reports.
May 6, 8, & 13: Reports.