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Unit 9: Categorization,
Classification, and Arrangement
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Topic Areas: Notational representation of
subject concepts and
categorization of concepts are
examined and presented as
additional means for providing
subject access to information
resources. Includes categorization,
hierarchical classification,
faceted classification, Dewey
Decimal Classification, Library of
Congress Classification, and
cuttering.
Learning Objectives:
- Recognize the need for and benefits of classification.
- Describe the nature of classification.
- Identify the structure of classification schemes.
- Explain two major types of classification schemes, including their weaknesses and strengths.
- Describe the basic structural and notational features of DDC.
- Explain the weaknesses and strengths of DDC.
- Deconstruct DDC classification numbers and interpret their meaning.
- Construct simple DDC call numbers.
- Describe the basic structural and notational features of LCC and explain how they differ from DDC.
- Explain the weaknesses and strengths of LCC.
- Deconstruct LCC classification numbers and interpret their meaning.
- Construct simple LCC call numbers.
Guiding Questions:
- Why do humans categorize?
- How is subject content
expressed through notation in
bibliographic records?
- How is categorization used in
the arrangement of information
resources and records?
- What purposes are served by
classification schemes?
- How are the major
classification schemes
organized?
- What are the weaknesses and
strengths of the major
classification schemes?
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Required Readings
Week 1
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Joudrey & Taylor, The Organization
of Information, Chapter 11 and Appendices B & C
Fox, "The Big Idea: Why Colour is in the Eye of the Beholder"
Khan,
"An Introduction to Taxonomy"
Olson,
"Social Influences on
Classification," Encyclopedia
of Library and Information
Science
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Week 2
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Drabinski,
"Teaching the Radical Catalog"
The
Straight Dope Column on the
DDC
"Dewey Decimal Drama," Every Little Thing [podcast]; starts at 00:07:45 on the recording
Nunes,
"Remembering the Howard University
Librarian Who Decolonized the Way
Books Were Catalogued"
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Week 3
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Mann,
Oxford
Guide to Library
Research, Chapter 3
(link to e-book)
Worth,
"This Library Takes an Indigenous
Approach to Categorizing Books"
Petroski, The Book on the Bookshelf, Appendix
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Relevant Articles from The
Encyclopedia of Library and
Information Science
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Beghtol,
"Classification Theory"
Broughton, "Bliss
Bibliographic Classification"
Chan and Hodges,
"Library of Congress
Classification (LCC)"
Dextre Clarke,
"Knowledge Organization System
Standards"
Foskett, "Facet
Analysis [ELIS Classic]"
Grove, "Taxonomy"
McIlwaine,
"Universal Decimal Classification
(UDC)"
Mitchell and
Vizine-Goetz, "Dewey Decimal
Classification (DDC)"
Pepper, "Topic Maps"
Satija and Singh,
"Colon Classification"
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Recommended Readings
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Adler, "Classification Along the Color Lines"
Adler and Harper, "Race and Ethnicity in Classification Systems"
Classification
Research Group, "The Need
for a Faceted Classification"
DDC,
"Introduction" in Volume 1
Gorman,
"The Longer the Number, the
Smaller the Spine"
Howard and Knowlton, "Browsing through Bias: The Library of Congress Classification and Subject Headings for African American Studies and LGBTQIA Studies"
Joudrey,
Introduction to Cataloging & Classification,
11th ed, Chapters 16-20
Kwasnik, "Changing Perspectives on Classification..." Langridge,
Classification, p. 1-23.
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Course Outline
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- 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
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