LSC 551, Section 3, online Fall 2006
Topics, readings and due dates
Dr. Bateman
Preliminary draft Aug. 22, 2006--- This can and will change
| Date | Topic | Readings | Lecture | Discussions | Activities | Due | |
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| Sept. 9 | Saturday | First meeting | Using WebCT | I should have your email and contact information and your group members and group name | |||
| Sept. 18 | Monday |
Introduction and basic concepts |
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What is information |
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First assignment should be complete | |
| Sept. 25 | Monday |
Vocabulary |
Taylor chapter 1 and 2 Buckland Interview with the search engine |
Basic terminology Database and catalog structure |
Using Library Literature |
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| Oct. 2 | Monday |
Access points Introduction to authority control Chief source of information ISBDs |
Taylor chapter 8 to 220 Furrie -- look at do not read in detail |
Access points and relationships |
Library Literature continued |
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| Oct. 10 | Tuesday (Oct. 9 is a holiday) |
Subject analysis and subject headings |
Taylor chapter 9 Look at Models: catalog cards, MARC record, AACR2, List of chief source of information |
Subject control and thesauri |
Thesaurus exercise explained |
Presentation of case study due Citation exericise due |
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| Oct. 16 | Monday |
Classification system Taxonomies |
Taylor chapter 11 Look at LCC and Dewey models |
Subject organization and classification |
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| Oct. 21 | Saturday | second meeting | Article review due | ||||
| Oct. 30 | Monday |
Indexing and abstracting |
Taylor chapter 10, Cleveland chapter 6 and 7, Palias |
Indexing and abstracting |
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| Nov. 6 | Monday |
MARC and encoding |
Taylor chapter 4 |
MARC record Encoding standards |
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| Nov. 13 | Monday |
More on name authority descriptive cataloging |
Taylor Chapter 8 220-238 |
Descriptive cataloging |
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Thesaurus exercise due |
| Nov. 20 | Monday |
Metadata AACR3, new trends and multimedia cataloging |
Taylor chapter 6 and 7 Taylor chapter 5 |
Metadata AACR3, more on FRBR and new trends |
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| Nov. 22 to 26 | Thanksgiving holiday | ||||||
| Dec. 9 | Saturday | Final meeting Presentation of organization projects |
Organization Project due
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