LIS 415: Information Organization

Topic Areas: Introduction and Overview of Information Organization!

Learning Objectives:

• Communicate what is expected of you in the course, and what you can expect from the instructor.
• Identify the basic goals or “objects” of information organization.

Guiding Questions:

• Is there a basic need to organize?
• Why do we organize?
• What is information organization?
• What is the difference between personal information organization and institutional information organization?

Required Readings

Joudrey & Taylor, The Organization of Information, Chapters 1 & 2

Oh, "Types of Personal Information Categorization" (link to article)

Chin, "File Not Found" (link to article) 

Relevant Articles from The Encyclopedia of Library and Information Science

Allen and Stein, "Visual Resources Management in Cultural Institutions"

Cunningham, "Archives"

Dillon and Turnbull, "Information Architecture"

Helfer and Heinrich, "Technical Services"

Jorgensen, "Still Image Indexing"

Jones et al., "Personal Information Management"

Joudrey, "Cataloging"

Maxwell, "Bibliographic Control"

Mulvany, "Back-of-the-Book Indexing"

Myburgh, "Records Organization and Access"

Neilson. "Museum Registration and Documentation"

O'Hara and Hall, "Semantic Web"

Sweeney, "Provenance of Archival Materials"

Thomas, "Special Collections"

Turner, "Moving Image Indexing"

Weinberg, "Indexing: History and Theory"

Recommended Readings

Articles:

Malone, "How Do People Organize Their Desks?"

Oh, "Personal Information Organization in Everyday Life"

Books at Beatley:

Antoniou et al., Semantic Web Primer (link to e-book)

Buck & Gilmore, MRM5: Museum Registration Methods

Joudrey, Introduction to Cataloging and Classification, 11th ed., Chapters 1-2

Reibel, Registration Methods for the Small Museum, Chapters 5 & 6 (link to e-book)

Rosenfeld, et al., Information Architecture for the Web and Beyond, Chapters 1-3

Shepherd & Yeo, Managing Records

Course Outline

• Unit 1: Introduction to Information Organization
• Unit 2: Environments and their Tools
• Unit 3: Introduction to Metadata
• Unit 4: Encoding
• Unit 5: Description
• Unit 6: Access & Authority Control
• Unit 7: Aboutness & Subject Analysis
• Unit 8: Vocabulary Control
• Unit 9: Categorization, Classification, & Arrangement