School of Information Management & Systems. Spring 2004.
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 2003 Schedule. See also Intended Plan.
May 10: Last class: Discussion of critiques. Synthesis.
May 5: Completed Critique due.
May 3: Discussion of exam and of critiques.
Apr 28: Midterm exam.
** Tues Apr 27**: Optional field trip: Library Technical Services, Moffitt, 2nd floor. Meet outside Free Speech Cafe at Moffitt Library, 2:10 p.m. Prepare by scanning Evans et al. Intro. to Tech. Serv.: 99, 129-56, 330-2 (In Comp Lab).
Apr 26: Information service goodness.
Apr 21: Inclass exercise: Encoding Syntax
Apr 21: Taylor Chaps 11 to end, incl. Glossary pp 373-383.
Apr 19: Handout on related terms (Bean & Green Relationships 164, 207).
Apr 19: Handout: Evaluation and Relevance.
Apr 19: Critique Progress report due.
Apr 14: Handout: Syntax in Retrieval.
Apr 14: Taylor Chaps 9 & 10, also Glossary pp. 363-372.
Apr 12: Handout: Verbal Access.
Apr 7: Taylor Chaps 7 & 8, also Glossary pp. 353-362.
Apr 5: Handout: Filing and Alphabetization.
Apr 5: Critique Intentions due.
Apr 5: Assign 8C: Collection: Manual due.
Apr 5: Assign 9: Social aspects of naming due.
Mar 29: Assign 8B: Collection: Table due.
Mar 22 & 24: Recess: No class.
Mar 17: Handout: Vocabulary in Selection Systems.
Mar 17: Assign 8A: Collection: Sample record due.
Mar 15 & 17: Inclass exercise & handout: Back of book indexing.
Mar 15: Assign. 7B: Make a Small Thesaurus due.
Mar 10: Read Taylor chaps 5 & 6.
Mar 8: Assign. 7A: Make a Small Thesaurus due.
Mar 3: No class. Read Taylor chaps 3 & 4.
Mar 1: Handout: Arrowgraph.
Mar 1: Assign. 6: Examine Thesauri due.
Feb 25: Assign. 5: Subject Access - Pathfinder due.
Feb 23: Read Taylor chaps 1 & 2.
Feb 18: Handout: Roles of Collections.
Feb 18: Read On the Construction of Selection Systems.
Feb 18: Assign. 4: Abstracting and Indexing Services due.
Feb 18: Handout: Subject access in a catalog.
Feb 16: Presidents' Day: No class.
Feb 11: Assignment 2: Using the Pathfinder catalog due.
Feb 9: Assignment 3: Describe Four Books due.
Feb 4: Handout: Organizing Coins, Telephone Numbers and Persons.
Feb 2: Read Buckland What is a document? JASIS 48 (1997) 804-809.
Feb 2: Recommended reading: Buckland Information as Thing JASIS 42 (1991): 351-360.
Jan 28: Telephone Numbers. Sets. Matching.
Jan 28: Assignment 1: Me and 245 due.
Jan 26: Collections, sets. Sorting. Inclass exercise: Coins.
Jan 21: First class meeting. Introduction. Organizing Information.