LIS 415 - Description

Title

Information Orgnization. 3 semester hours.

Content

The phenomena, activities, and issues surrounding the organization of information in service of users and user communities. Topics include resource types and formats, information service institutions, markup, descriptive metadata, content standards, subject analysis and classification, and the information life cycle. Readings, discussions, examinations, and oral and written exercises.

"We catalogers have a lot of arguments on our side, but in some ways we are producing Cadillacs when almost everyone wants motorscooters or Kias" (Lawrence Creider, AUTOCAT, July 27, 2006).

Relevant learning outcomes

The GLSIS faculty have identified ten student learning outcomes, and each course addresses one or more of these.

students demonstrate the ability to apply standards relevant to specific activities.
students have the ability to analyze, synthesize, and communicate information in a variety of formats.
students can assess and evaluate systems for managing content.

Course-specific learning outcomes

By the end of the course, the student

uses the standard tools of cataloguing, classification, and indexing at a basic level of proficiency
can identify the components of an information discovery service
uses the vocabulary of the field appropriately
can help a user use an information discovery system effectively
demonstrates knowledge of core concepts and principles

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