Course Calendar
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Note: An invitation to subscribe to the Google course calendar will be sent to your Simmons email in the first week of class. This will add the units and the assignment distribution/due dates to your Google calendar.
| Week No. | Date | Unit No. |
Description | Assignment | Due Date |
Time To Complete |
% of Grade |
Assignment Mode |
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| UNIT 1: Introduction and Foundations | ||||||||
| 1 | May 13 | 1A | Introduction: Cataloging; History of cataloging codes Activities: Introduction to course; Syllabus review; Lecture |
Participation
Attendance |
On-going | 15 weeks | 10%
05% |
Individual
Individual |
| 2 | May 20 | 1B | Foundations: FRBR, FRAD, and LRM Activities: Video lectures; Review; Discussion |
Conceptual Modeling |
June 03 |
2 weeks |
15% |
Group |
| Final Presentations | Aug 10: Slides, handouts, and lecture notes due
Aug 12: Presentations |
12 weeks | 15% | Group | ||||
| UNIT 2: Describing and Identifying Resources | ||||||||
| 3 | May 27 | 2A | RDA Basics: Element Set, General Guidelines, and Manifestations Activities: Video lectures; Review; Lecture |
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| 4 | June 03 | 2B | Describing Manifestations Activities: Exercises |
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| 5 | June 10 | 2C | Describing Carriers and Content Activities: Lecture |
Description | June 24 | 2 weeks | 15% | Pair |
| 6 | June 17 | 2D | Description Exercises Activities: Exercises |
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| 7 | June 24 | 2E | Official RDA and Toolkit Review Activities: Lecture |
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| UNIT 3: Encoding and Display | ||||||||
| 8 | July 01 | 3A | Encoding & Display: MARC Encoding; ISBD Punctuation Activities: Video lectures; Review; Exercises |
Description in MARC | July 15 | 2 weeks | 10% | Pair |
| 9 | July 08 | 3B | Encoding & Display: Fixed fields; MARC Encoding Activities: Short lecture; Exercises |
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| UNIT 4: Authority Work and Access Points | ||||||||
| 10 | July 15 | 4A | Access Points and Other Relationships: Access points; Primary creators; Relationship designators Activities: Lecture |
Access Points and Authorities Searching | July 29 | 2 weeks | 10% | Individual or Pair |
| 11 | July 22 | 4B | Authority Work/MARC Authorities Activities: Video lectures; Review; Exercises |
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| 12 | July 29 | 4C | Identifying Persons and Corporate Bodies; Authorities Lab Activities: Video lectures; Review; Exercises |
Name Authority Work / Final Descriptive Cataloging Problem | Aug 12 | 2 weeks | 20% | Pair |
| 14 | Aug 05 | 4D | Identifying Works and Expressions Activities: Lecture |
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| 15 | Aug 12 | 4E | What the Future Holds: Official RDA Activities: Presentations |
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