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(Prerequisite: LI 801 or concurrent enrollment.) In this introduction to the individual, social, and institutional perspectives of organizing information, students examine the assumptions, practices, issues and tools of commonly used subject analysis and classification systems in various types of information organizations. The impact of different approaches to accessing information is emphasized. (Required) (Approved 3/9/2015)
Course Syllabus|http://www.emporia.edu/slim/documents/syllabi/20175/804XS.pdf?language_id=1
| Assignment | Description | My Work | d |
|---|---|---|---|
| Essay 002 | The second essay must use different readings from the first. Essay length is 3 pages, double-spaced. Students will bring drafts of the essays to the in-person class meetings for the purposes of peer review. | essay002 | c |
| Group Presentation_Slideshow | For the second project, each group will research an organizational tool or standard and present their findings in a slideshow format. | groupslideshow | c |
| Essay 001 | The short essays are individual assignments where students draw from three of the readings in order to develop an original and compelling thesis. Each essay can utilize any of the required or recommended readings assigned to that point | essay001 | c |
| Group Presentation_Digital Poster | For the first project, each group will research a central figure in the field and present their findings in the form of a digital poster. | groupdigitalposter | c |
| 16 | Future of Organization | week_16_discussion | c |
| 15 | Semantic Web | week_15_discussion | c |
| 14 | Thanksgiving Holiday | week_14_discussion | c |
| 13 | Data Management | week_13_discussion | c |
| 12 | Archival Organization | week_12_discussion | c |
| 11 | Indexing | week_11_discussion | c |
| 10 | Ontologies and Taxonomies | week_10_discussion | c |
| 09 | Natural Language | week_09_discussion | c |
| 08 | Retrieval | week_08_discussion | c |
| 07 | Controlled Vocabulary | week_07_discussion | c |
| 06 | Classification | week_06_discussion | c |
| 05 | Subject Cataloging | week_05_discussion | c |
| 04 | Descriptive Cataloging II | week_04_discussion | c |
| 03 | Descriptive Cataloging I | week_03_discussion | c |
| 02 | Library Catalog | week_02_discussion | c |
| 01 | Introduction | week_01_discussion | c |
| 1962Borges | Borges, J. L. (1962). The library of Babel (A. Kerrigan, Trans.). In A. Kerrigan (Ed.), Ficciones (pp. 79-88). New York, NY: Grove Press. Retrieved from https://libraryofbabel.info/libraryofbabel.html |
| 1973Shera | Shera, J. H. (1973). Changing concepts of classification: Philosophical and educational implications. In Knowing books and men; knowing computers, too (pp. 327-337). Littleton, CO: Libraries Unlimited. Retrieved from course reserve. |
| 1968Wilson | Wilson, P. (1968). Introduction. In Two kinds of power: An essay on bibliographical control (pp. 1-5). Berkeley, CA: University of California Press. Retrieved from https://books.google.com/books?id=DePy_aazKI4C&lpg=PA55&pg=PP3#v=onepage&q&f=false |
| 1968Wilson | Wilson, P. (1968). The bibliographical universe. In Two kinds of power: An essay on bibliographical control (pp. 6-19). Berkeley, CA: University of California Press. Retrieved from https://books.google.com/books?id=DePy_aazKI4C&lpg=PA55&pg=PP3#v=onepage&q&f=false |
| 1841BritishMuseum | British Museum. (1841). Rules for the compilation of the catalogue. In Catalogue of printed books in the British Museum (Vol. 1, pp. v-ix). London, UK: J. B. Nichols and Son. Retrieved from https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/001761602 |
| 1876Cutter | Cutter, C. A. (1876). Library catalogues. In Public libraries in the United States of America: Their history, condition, and management, Part I (pp. 526-549). Washington, DC: Government Printing Office. Retrieved from https://archive.org/details/cu31924029529553 |
| 1904Cutter | Cutter, C. A. (1904). General remarks, Definitions, Author-catalog entry. In Rules for a dictionary catalog (4 ed., pp. 11-56). Washington, DC: Government Printing Office. Retrieved from https://archive.org/details/rulesforadictio06cuttgoog |
| 1959Verona | Verona, E. (1959). Literary unit versus bibliographical unit. Libri, 9(2), 79-104. Retrieved from course reserve. |
| 1983Wilson | Wilson, P. (1983). The catalog as access mechanism: Background and concepts. Library Resources & Technical Services, 27(1), 4-17. Retrieved from http://www.ala.org/alcts/resources/lrts |
| 1953Lubetzky | Lubetzky, S. (1953). Is this rule necessary? In Cataloging rules and principles: A critique of the A.L.A. rules for entry and a proposed design for their revision (pp. 1-15). Washington, DC: Library of Congress. Retrieved from https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/001162682 |
| 1969Lubetzky | Lubetzky, S. (1969). The author and title catalog in the library: Its role, function, and objectives. Report 2 of a series on the principles of cataloging. Washington, DC: US Department of Health, Education & Welfare, Office of Education. Retrieved from https://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED058909 |
| 1936Pettee | Pettee, J. (1936). The development of authorship entry and the formulation of authorship rules as found in the Anglo-American code. Library Quarterly, 6(3), 270-290. Retrieved from course reserve. |
| 1989Gorman | Gorman, M. (1989). Yesterday's heresy–today's orthodoxy: An essay on the changing face of descriptive cataloging. College & Research Libraries, 50(6), 626-634. Retrieved from http://crl.acrl.org/index.php/crl/article/view/14506 |
| 1941Osborn | Osborn, A. D. (1941). The crisis in cataloging. Library Quarterly, 11(4), 393-411. Retrieved from www.columbia.edu/cu/libraries/inside/units/bibcontrol/osmc/crisis.pdf |
| 1990Tucker | Tucker, B. R. (1990). The limits of a title proper, or one case showing why human beings, not machines, must do the cataloging. Library Resources & Technical Services, 34(2), 240-245. Retrieved from http://www.ala.org/alcts/resources/lrts |
| 1986Horny | Horny, K. L. (1986). Minimal-level cataloging: A look at the issues–a symposium. The Journal of Academic Librarianship, 11(6), 332-334. Retrieved from https://emporiastate.on.worldcat.org/advancedsearch |
| 1986Ross | Ross, R. M., & West, L. (1986). MLC: A contrary viewpoint. The Journal of Academic Librarianship, 11(6), 334-336. Retrieved from https://emporiastate.on.worldcat.org/advancedsearch |
| 1986Rhee | Rhee, S. (1986). Minimal-level cataloging: Is it the best local solution to a national problem? The Journal of Academic Librarianship, 11(6), 336-337. Retrieved from https://emporiastate.on.worldcat.org/advancedsearch |
| 1986Crowe | Crowe, W. J. (1986). Local needs, shared responsibilities. The Journal of Academic Librarianship, 11(6), 337-338. Retrieved from https://emporiastate.on.worldcat.org/advancedsearch |
| 1986Marko | Marko, L., & von Wahlde, B. (1986). BRC (Brief Record Cataloging) at Michigan. The Journal of Academic Librarianship, 11(6), 339-340. Retrieved from https://emporiastate.on.worldcat.org/advancedsearch (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site. |
| 1986Somers | Somers, J., & Kamens, H. (1986). A more detailed study of one library's experience. The Journal of Academic Librarianship, 11(6), 341-342. Retrieved from https://emporiastate.on.worldcat.org/advancedsearch |
| 1951Haykin | Haykin, D. J. (1951). Introduction. In Subject headings: A practical guide (pp. 1-6). Washington, DC: US Government Printing Office. Retrieved from https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015008971890;view=1up;seq=7 |
| 1951Haykin | Haykin, D. J. (1951). Fundamental concepts. In Subject headings: A practical guide (pp. 7-11). Washington, DC: US Government Printing Office. Retrieved from https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015008971890;view=1up;seq=7 |
| 1968Wilson | Wilson, P. (1968). Subjects and the sense of position. In Two kinds of power: An essay on bibliographic control (pp. 69-92). Berkeley, CA: University of California Press. Retrieved from https://books.google.com/books?id=DePy_aazKI4C&lpg=PA55&pg=PP3#v=onepage&q&f=fals |
| 1946Prevost | Prevost, M. L. (1946). An approach to theory and method in general subject heading. Library Quarterly, 16(2), 140-151. Retrieved from course reserve. |
| 1976Comaromi | Comaromi, J. P. (1976). The historical development of the Dewey Decimal Classification system. In K. L. Henderson (Ed.), Major classification systems: The Dewey centennial (pp. 17-31). Urbana-Champaign, IL: University of Illinois. Retrieved from https://www.ideals.illinois.edu/handle/2142/1778 |
| 1911Hulme | Hulme, W. W. (1911). Principles of book classification. Library Association Record, 13(1), 444-449. Retrieved from course reserve. |
| 1983Svenonius | Svenonius, E. (1983). Use of classification in online retrieval. Library Resources & Technical Services, 27(1), 76-80. Retrieved from http://www.ala.org/alcts/resources/lrts |
| 1994Lowe | Lowe, H. J., & Barnett, G. O. (1994). Understanding and using the Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) vocabulary to perform literature searches. The Journal of the American Medical Association, 271(14), 1103-1108. Retrieved from course reserve. |
| 2004Smiraglia | Smiraglia, R. P. (2004). Authority control of works: Cataloging's chimera? Cataloging & Classification Quarterly, 38(3-4), 291-308. Retrieved from https://emporiastate.on.worldcat.org/advancedsearch |
| 1986Svenonius | Svenonius, E. (1986). Unanswered questions in the design of controlled vocabularies. Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 37(5), 331-340. Retrieved from https://emporiastate.on.worldcat.org/advancedsearch |
| 2007Spencer | Spencer, B. (2007). Harnessing the deep web: A practical plan for locating specialty databases on the web. Reference Services Review, 35(1), 71-83. Retrieved from https://emporiastate.on.worldcat.org/advancedsearch |
| 1992Fidel | Fidel, R. (1992). Who needs controlled vocabulary? Special Libraries, 83(1), 1-9. Retrieved from http://faculty.washington.edu/fidelr/RayaPubs/WhoNeedsControlledVocabulary.pdf |
| 1991Larson | Larson, R. R. (1991). The decline of subject searching: Long-term trends and patterns of index use in an online catalog. Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 42(3), 197-215. Retrieved from https://emporiastate.on.worldcat.org/advancedsearch |
| 1944Lennaeus | Linnaeus, C. (1944). Translation of the title page and the “Observationes” to the tables in the “Systema Naturae” (M. S. J. Engel-Ledeboer & H. Engel, Trans.). In Systema naturae, 1735: Facsimile of the first edition (pp. 17-30). Nieuwkoop, Netherlands: De Graaf. Retrieved from course reserve. |
| 2014Benner | Benner, J. G., & Karimi, H. A. (2014). Accessible wayfinding ontologies for people with disabilities. Paper presented at Accessible Way-Finding Using Web Technologies, Online Symposium, 3 December. Retrieved from https://www.w3.org/WAI/RD/2014/way-finding/paper9/ |
| 1989Bates | Bates, M. J. (1989). Rethinking subject cataloging in the online environment. Library Resources & Technical Services, 33(4), 400-412. Retrieved from http://www.ala.org/alcts/resources/lrts |
| 1999Page | Page, L., Brin, S., Motwani, R., & Winograd, T. (1999). The PageRank citation ranking: Bringing order to the web. Retrieved from http://ilpubs.stanford.edu:8090/422/ |
| 2003Barroso | Barroso, L. A., Dean, J., & Hölzle, U. (2003). Web search for a planet: The Google cluster architecture. IEEE Micro, 23(2), 22-28. Retrieved from course reserve. |
| 2007Cox | Cox, R. J. (2007). Revisiting the archival finding aid. Journal of Archival Organization, 5(4), 5-32. Retrieved from https://emporiastate.on.worldcat.org/advancedsearch |
| 2016Langdon | Langdon, J. (2016). Describing the digital: The archival cataloguing of born-digital personal papers. Archives and Records, 37(1), 37-52. Retrieved from course reserve. |
| 2008Heidorn | Heidorn, P. B. (2008). Shedding light on the dark data in the long tail of science. Library Trends, 57(2), 280-299. Retrieved from course reserve. |
| 2012Lyon | Lyon, L. (2012). The informatics transform: Re-engineering libraries for the data decade. The International Journal of Digital Curation, 7(1), 126-138. Retrieved from http://www.ijdc.net/index.php/ijdc/article/view/210 |
| 2010Salo | Salo, D. (2010). Retooling libraries for the data challenge. Ariadne, 64. Retrieved from http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue64/salo |
| 1964Borges | Borges, J. L. (1964). The analytical language of John Wilkins (R. L. C. Simms, Trans.) In Other inquisitions, 1937-1952 (pp. 101-105). Austin, TX: University of Texas Press. Retrieved from http://entish.org/essays/Wilkins.html |
| 1983Eco | Eco, U. (1983). Second day, Night (W. Weaver, Trans.). In The name of the Rose (pp. 169-178). New York, NY: Harcourt Brace. Retrieved from course reserve. |
| 2009Bizer | Bizer, C., Heath, T., & Berners-Lee, T. (2009). Linked data – The story so far. International Journal on Semantic Web and Information Systems, 5(3), 1-22. Retrieved from http://tomheath.com/papers/bizer-heath-berners-lee-ijswis-linked-data.pdf |
| 2001Lagoze | Lagoze, C., & Van de Sompel, H. (2001). The Open Archives Initiative: Building a low-barrier interoperability framework. Paper presented at the Joint Conference on Digital Libraries, Roanoke, VA. Retrieved from https://www.openarchives.org/documents/jcdl2001-oai.pdf |
| 1998Miller | Miller, E. (1998). An introduction to the Resource Description Framework. D-Lib Magazine, 4(5). Retrieved from http://www.dlib.org/dlib/may98/miller/05miller.html |
| 1945Bush | Bush, V. (1945, July). As we may think. The Atlantic, 176. Retrieved from https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1945/07/as-we-may-think/303881/ |
| 1965Licklider | Licklider, J. C. R. (1965). Information storage, organization, and retrieval. In Libraries of the future (pp. 70-89). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. Retrieved from http://worrydream.com/refs/Licklider%20-%20Libraries%20of%20the%20Future.pdf |