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
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

 

What is information 


First case study (group)

  First assignment should be complete
Sept. 25 Monday

Vocabulary
Documents/information objects 

Taylor chapter 1 and 2

Buckland

 Interview with the search engine

Basic terminology

Database and catalog structure 

Using Library Literature

   
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

   
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

 
Oct. 16 Monday

Classification system

Taxonomies

Taylor chapter 11 Look at LCC and Dewey models

Subject organization and classification 

     
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 

     
Nov. 6 Monday

MARC and encoding 

Taylor chapter 4 

MARC record

Encoding standards

 

   
Nov. 13 Monday

More on name authority descriptive cataloging 

Taylor Chapter 8 220-238 

Descriptive cataloging 

 

 

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 

     
Nov. 22 to 26 Thanksgiving holiday            
Dec. 9 Saturday

Final meeting

Presentation of organization projects

       

Organization Project due