School of Information Management & Systems. Spring 2003.
245 Organization of Information in Collections.   Michael Buckland.

Intended Plan. -- Expect changes.   See Schedule.

TOPICS TO BE COVERED
Jan 22: Introduction: Why? Information ("Documents"). Collections (Sets). Organizing ("Ordering").
Jan 27 & 29: Content formats and communications formats. MARC.
Feb 3 & 5: Documents, Collections, & Ordering (arrangement).
Feb 10 & 12: Searching, selecting. Representations, AACRII: Books.
[Feb 17: Presidents' Day - No class.] Feb 19: Representations: Other materials.
Feb 24 & 26: Choice of Access Points. Main entry.
Mar 3 & 5: Authority Control. Personal names.
Mar 10 & 12: Corporate names. Uniform Titles.
Mar 17 & 19: Subject Access. LCSH
Mar 24 & 26: SPRING BREAK
Mar 31 & Apr 2: Classification.
Apr 7 & 9: Metadata Standards. Entry vocabulary mappings.
Apr 14 & 16: Thesaurus Design and Development.
Apr 21 & 23: Automatic Categorization.
Apr 28 & 30: Indexing.
May 5, 7, & 12: Synthesis and reports.

TENTATIVE DUE-DATES FOR EXERCISES AND ASSIGNMENTS
Jan 27 & 29: Me & 245; MELVYL Basic; Describe four documents.
Feb 3 & 5: Names in MELVYL; Abstracting & Indexing Services.
Feb 10 & 12: Subject representation in LSCH (MELVYL & Berman).
Feb 19: Thesauri.
Feb 24 & 26: Dublin Core compliance.
Mar 3 & 5: Melvyl's other databases; MARC language coding.
Mar 10 & 12: Design of personal database.
Mar 17 & 19: Deliver database.
Mar 25 & 27: SPRING BREAK Mar 31 & Apr 2: Cataloging (AACR2 & ISBD).
Apr 7 & 9: Classification (Dewey).
Apr 14 & 16: Entry vocabulary indexes.
Apr 21 & 23: Critique of access.
Apr 28 & 30: Progress on reports.
May 5, 7, & 12: Reports.