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| Contact Information |
Instructor: Daniel N. Joudrey
E-mail: joudrey@simmons.edu
Office: P-205B
Phone: (617) 521-2863 |
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| Unit 10: History of Information Organization |
The progression of the development of the organization of information is traced, including the development of technological influences.
Projects on Information Organization during: Antiquity, Middle Ages, Rennaissance and the French Revolution; Projects on Panizzi, Jewett, Cutter, Dewey, Otlet & La Fontaine, Ranganathan, etc.
- How did we arrive at this state of organization?
- What basic principles of organization have been developed over the last several centuries?
- What basic evolutionary stages have catalogs passed through?
- How did the development of information technology in the 20th century affect bibliographic control and the organization of information?
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Required Readings |
Taylor, The Organization of Information, Chapter 3
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Recommended Readings
Articles |
Wright, "The Web Time Forgot" [New York Times article about Paul Otlet]
Lancaster, "Whither Libraries ... "
Strout, "Development of the Catalog..."
Baker, "Discards"
Osborn, "The Crisis in Cataloging," pp. 90-103.
Taylor, "Cataloguing"
Russell, "Hidden Wisdom..."
Hopkins, "The 1791 French Cataloging Code..."
Berner, "Historical Development of Archival Theory ..."
Burke, "Archives: Organization and Access ..., " pp. 63-68.
Fishbein, "Archives, Records Management ..., " pp. 60-63. |
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Recommended Readings
Web Sites |
Bush, "As We May Think ." http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/194507/bush |
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Recommended Readings
Books |
Taylor, Intro to Cat & Class, Chapter 2
Dunkin, Cataloging USA, Chapters 1 & 2
Reynolds, Library Automation, Chapter 4 |
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Vocabulary |
- Avram
- Bodley
- Bush
- Callimachus
- Cutter
- Dewey
- French revolution
- Jewett
- Kilgour
- Library of Congress
- Lubetzky
- Mooers
- Otlet and LaFontaine
- Panizzi
- Ranganathan
- Sears
- Taube
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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. |
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