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Instructor: Daniel N. Joudrey
E-mail: joudrey@simmons.edu
Office: P-205B
Phone: (617) 521-2863
Class Meetings: Wednesday 2:30-5:30 pm
Office Hours:
Wednesdays 5:30-6:30 pm and by appointment |
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| Course Description |
The phenomena, activities, and issues surrounding the organization of information in service of users and user communities. Topics include resource types and formats, information service institutions, markup, descriptive metadata, content standards, subject analysis and classification, and the information life cycle. Required course. |
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Prerequisites: None
Audience (level, environment/setting): beginning; all settings
Student Learning Outcomes: 1, 4, 6
1. Demonstrate the ability to apply standards relevant to specific information service activities.
4. Analyze, synthesize, and communicate information and knowledge in a variety of formats.
6. Assess, create, and evaluate systems for managing content.
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| Objectives |
Students will understand:
- the role of organization in human endeavors;
- basic principles of organization that have developed over the last several centuries;
- organizational concepts that affect how information must be retrieved;
- various approaches to organizing in different types of environments;
- the role of technical standards in organizing information packages.
Students will be able to:
- effectively use and interpret existing systems for organization of information;
- use a number of standard organizing tools;
- define and use correctly terminology commonly used with respect to the organization of information;
- suggest appropriate approaches to organizing information in given situations.
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Textbooks
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Required:
Taylor, Arlene G., The Organization of Information, 2nd ed., Westport, Conn.: Libraries Unlimited, 2004.
This title may be purchased through the Simmons College Bookstore, online from Libraries Unlimited at www.lu.com, or from other online retailers.
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Course Outline |
- Unit 1: Introduction and Environments
- Unit 2: Retrieval Tools & Current Systems
- Unit 3: Introduction to Metadata
- Unit 4: Encoding Standards
- Unit 5: Description
- Unit 6: Access & Authority Control
- Unit 7 : Aboutness & Subject Analysis
- Unit 8 : Vocabulary Control
- Unit 9 : Categorization, Classification, & Arrangement
- Unit 10: The Past
- Unit 11: The Future
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Updated June 16, 2008.
Disclaimer: This syllabus is not a contract. The instructor reserves the right to alter the course requirements, schedule, and/or assignments based on new materials, class discussions, or other legitimate pedagogical objectives. Students will be given notice of relevant changes in class or via e-mail. |
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