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

Readings -- DRAFT.   Read by class time on date specified. Schedule.
Note: Items indicated as Main Graduate Services Reserve may not yet be on Reserve.
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 2/29.
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, 1993. Main [Grad Reserve] Z695.U36 B45 1993; Also Comparative Ethnic Studies Z675.U36.B45; Also 1971 ed.: NRLF B4 209 665.

Cleveland, Donald B. & Ana D. Cleveland. Introduction to Indexing and Abstracting. 3rd ed. Libraries Unlimited. Main [Grad Reserve] Z695.9.C529 2001

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

Mills, Jack. A Modern Outline of Library Classification. London: Chapman & Hall, 1964. Main [Grad Reserve] Z696.M57 (= NRLF B4 213 426). Excellent introduction even though outdated on details.

Taylor, Arlene. Wynar's Introduction to Cataloging and Classification. 9th edition. Littleton, Colo.: Libraries Unlimited, 2000. MAIN [Grad. Reserve] Z693.W94 2000 Basic text for library cataloging & classification.
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. 5th Edition. Hamden, Connecticut: Linnet Books, 1996. Main [Grad Reserve] HV7936.A8.N3 1996

Hagler, Ronald. The bibliographic record and information technology. 3rd ed. Chicago: ALA, 1997. MAIN [Grad. Reserve] Z699.35.M28 H34 1997