School of Information Management & Systems. Spring 2002.
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 2001 Schedule.
See also
Intended Plan.
May 13: Last class.
May 8: Assignment 13: Entry Vocabulary Indexes due.
May 8: Complete Taylor, including Glossary.
May 6: Critique of topic access: Report due.
May 1: Karen G. Schneider: Librarians' Index to the Internet
lii.org
May 1: Assignment 14: lii.org website due.
Apr 29: Taylor chap 10, incl Appendix.
Apr 22: One hour in-class quiz.
Apr 22: Taylor chap 9.
Apr 17: Taylor chap 8.
Apr 17: Assignment 10C: Organize Collection
Users' Manual due.
Apr 17: Read Davenport & Cronin
Knowledge
Management: Semantic Drift or Conceptual Shift?.
Apr 15: No class.
Apr 10: Taylor chap 6.
Apr 8: Assignment 10B: Organize Collection
Table due.
Apr 3: 12. Encoding Languages.
Apr 3: Critique of topic access: Progress
report due.
Apr 1: Read Taylor chap 5.
Apr 1: Assignment 10A: Organize Collection Sample
record due.
Mar 25 & 27: Spring Break - No class.
Mar 22: Assignment 11B: Thesaurus due.
Mar 13: Read Taylor Chap 4.
Mar 13: Assignment 11A: Make Thesaurus A:Topic,
assumptions, sample due.
Mar 11: Critique of topic access: Topic due ASAP.
Mar 11: Read Taylor chap 7.
Mar 6: Assignment 9: Dublin Core due.
Mar 6: Read Taylor chap 3.
Mar 4: Read Taylor chap 2.
Mar 4: Read Buckland & Plaunt
On
the construction of selection systems.
Fed 27: Assignment 8: Social Aspects of Naming due.
Feb 20: Assignment 7: Use a Thesaurus due.
Feb 20: Assignment 6: Subject Access:
MELVYL catalog.
Feb 18: Read Taylor chap 1.
Feb 13: Handout: Subject
Access in the Melvyl Catalog.
Feb 13: Assignment 5: Abstracting
and Indexing Services due.
Feb 13: Assignment 3: Personal
Names due.
Feb 6: Read Buckland
What
is a document? JASIS 48 (1997) 804-809.
Feb 6: Optional reading: Buckland
Information as
Thing JASIS 42 (1991): 351-360.
Feb 6: Assignment 3: Describe four books due.
Feb 4: Handout: "Telephone Numbers, Match-making."
Feb 4: Assignment 2: The Melvyl Catalog due.
Jan 30: Assignment 1: Me and 245 due.
Jan 30: Collections, sets. Ordering.
Jan 30: Handout: Description: Objects, Attributes,
and Values.
Jan 23: First class meeting. Introduction. Organizing Information.