LIS 415: Information Organization

Instructor: Daniel N. Joudrey
E-mail: joudrey@simmons.edu
Office: P-205B
Phone: (617) 521-2863

• Where does cataloging and organization of information go from here?
• Is cataloging still needed?
• Can technology do it all?

Required Readings

Taylor, The Organization of Information ..., Conclusion

Yee, "Will the Response of the Library Profession to the Internet Be Self-Immolation?" http://www.slc.bc.ca/response.htm

Wingett, "Gilbert Library to be First..."

Recommended Readings

Weinberger, Everything is Miscellaneous

LC Working Group on the Future of Bibliographic Control, On the Record. http://www.loc.gov/bibliographic-future/news/lcwg-ontherecord-jan08-final.pdf

Mann, "Peloponnesian War" http://www.guild2910.org/Peloponnesian%20War%20June%2013%202007.pdf

Calhoun, "The Changing Nature of the Catalog..." (Skim) http://www.loc.gov/catdir/calhoun-report-final.pdf

Mann, "Review of the Calhoun Report" (Skim) http://www.guild2910.org/AFSCMECalhounReviewREV.pdf

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