SCHOOL OF LIBRARY & INFORMATION SCIENCE Fall 2005
University of Kentucky Chan
ORGANIZATION OF KNOWLEDGE I
SYLLABUS
COURSE DESCRIPTION
Introduction to the theories and practice of bibliographic description and subject analysis. Covers the organization of both print and electronic information, including discussion and application of Anglo-American Cataloging Rules 2nd edition revised (AACR2R), DDC, LCC, and LCSH.
Prerequisite: LIS602
COURSE ORIENTATION
While students who intend to work in resource description, access, and organization as well as online catalog maintenance and quality control will need this course as an introduction to the field and a prerequisite to advanced studies on the subject, it is designed also for those who are interested in other areas of library and information services, such as collection development, reference service, and the development and maintenance of integrated online systems. Major topics covered in this course include the creation of document surrogates, encoding schemes, subject and name access points, and classification and categorization.
COURSE OBJECTIVES
This course builds on the foundation laid in LIS602 with regard to organization of knowledge. Upon completion of the course, students are expected to have gained basic knowledge or proficiency in the following areas:
I. Theoretical knowledge:
· An overview of metadata for resource description, online catalogs, and databases
· Concept and evolution of the principles and theories of bibliographic control
· Types and functions of metadata records
· Principles and standards for resource description and encoding
Theoretical foundations of classification systems and subject access schemes
II. Practical application:
· Standards for description and encoding, including Anglo-American Cataloging Rules and MARC 21 Formats
· Standards and tools for subject analysis: instruction in the use of Dewey Decimal Classification and Library of Congress Subject Headings, and brief introduction to Library of Congress Classification
· Introduction to Dublin Core and other metadata schemes
INSTRUCTIONAL MATERIALS
STANDARDS
Anglo‑American Cataloguing Rules. 2nd ed., 2002 revision. Prepared under the direction of the Joint Steering Committee for Revision of AACR, a committee of the American Library Association, the Australian Committee on Cataloguing, the British Library, the Canadian Committee on Cataloguing, Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals, the Library of Congress. Chicago: American Library Association, 2002- (with 2003 and 2004 updates) (Required)
Dewey, Melvil. Abridged Dewey Decimal Classification and Relative Index. Ed. 14. Edited by Joan S. Mitchell, Editor in Chief; Julianne Beall, Giles Martin, Winton E. Matthews, Jr., Gregory R. New, Assistant editors. Dublin, OH: OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc., 2004.
Library of Congress. Library of Congress Subject Headings. 21st ed.
MARC 21 Concise Formats. Prepared by Network Development and MARC Standards Office. 2004 concise ed. Washington, DC: Network Development and MARC Standards Office, Library of Congress. http://www.loc.gov/marc/
TEXTBOOKS
Chan, L.M. Cataloging and Classification: An Introduction. 2nd ed. New York: McGraw‑Hill, 1994. (Required)
Chan, L.M. Dewey Decimnal Classification: Principles and Application. 3rd ed. Dublin, OH: OCLC Online Computer Library Center, 2003.
Furrie, Betty. Understanding MARC: Bibliographic: Machine Readable Cataloging. 7th ed. Washington, DC: Cataloging Distribution Service, Library of Congress, in collaboration with The Follett Software Co., 2003. http://lcweb.loc.gov/marc/umb/
Taylor, Arlene. Wynar's Introduction to Cataloging and Classification. Revised 9th ed. Englewood, CO: Libraries Unlimited, 2004.
Understanding MARC Authority Records, prepared by Network Development and MARC Standards Office, Library of Congress. 2nd ed. Washington, DC: Cataloging Distribution Service, Library of Congress, 2004.
REQUIRED AND SUPPLEMENTARY READINGS
Books and Journal Articles (See Bibliograhpy)
EXERCISES
Homework exercises will be distributed in class. Each exercise should be completed on the date due. The exercises will not be graded but will be used as bases for discussion in class.
FINAL GRADE
The final grade will be based on the following components of the course
Resource description: Description and MARC coding 20%
Test 20%
Subject access: Classification 20%
Organizing Web resources 20%
Subject indexing 20%
Policy on excused absences
Students are expected to attend each class meeting unless he/she has been excused by the instructor. Failure to attend class will result in a lower grade.
Absences due to illness or emergencies must be reported within a week. You may call the instructor’s office or via email.
A student has the right, and may be required, to petition for a "W" if he or she has excused absences in excess of one‑fifth of the class contact hours for the course.
Students are responsible for securing missed class materials due to absence.
Policy on unexcused absences
A student who has unexcused absences in excess of one‑fifth of the class contact hours will receive a failing grade.
No make‑ups will be given for unexcused absences.
Incompletes
An incomplete grade due to illness or other emergencies may be arranged. A request for an incomplete due to illness must be accompanied by a letter from your doctor, the Student Health Service, or a hospital. Lack of time to complete assigned work, or other reasons not related to unavoidable excused absences, will not be accepted as a valid reason for petitioning an incomplete.
Academic integrity
All papers and take-home assignments must represent the student’s original work. When using material from other sources, proper citations must be given.
Papers or assignments prepared for other classes cannot be used to fulfill the requirements of this class.
Late papers or take‑home tests
Papers and take‑home assignments should be turned in on the day specified. For each class period a paper or take‑home is late, 10% of the grade will be subtracted.
ORGANIZATION OF KNOWLEDGE I
COURSE OUTLINE
I. Introduction
A. Description of knowledge resources
B. Access to knowledge resources
II. Bibliographic control and bibliographic systems
A. Types of resources
1. The Internet
2. The library
3. Other sources (e.g., archives, government)
B. Methods of description
1. Metadata
2. Library catalog
3. Others (e.g., archival description)
C. Encoding systems
1. MARC formats
2. TEI, EAD, SGML, HTML, XML
D. Methods of access
1. Indexing - Manual and automatic
2. Subject access
3. Classification
E. The library catalog
1. Functions of the catalog
2. Forms of the catalog
III. Resource description
A. Bibliographic and metadata records: Introduction
1. MARC records
2. Other metadata records
DC (Dublin Core)
CSDGM (Content Standard for Digital Geospatial Metadata)
TEI (Text Encoding Initiative)
EAD (Encoded Archival Description)
CDWA (Categories for Description of Works of Art)
GILS (Global Information Locator Service)
ONIX (Online Information Exchange)
B. Cataloging operations
1. Original cataloging
2. Copy cataloging
3. Online cataloging (OCLC)
C. Cataloging standards
1. ISBD
2. MARC formats (bibliographic data; authority data)
3. Cataloging rules
4. Classification schemes
5. Subject headings lists and thesauri
IV. Description standards
A. Development of bibliographic standards
B. Anglo‑American Cataloguing Rules (2nd ed., 2002 rev., with 2003 and 2004 updates)
C. Dublin Core
V. Subject access
A. Introduction ‑ Principles
B. Classification
1. Dewey Decimal Classification
Cutter numbers
2. Library of Congress Classification
3. Other classification systems
C. Organization and categorization of Web resources
1. Subject directories
2. Subject gateways and portals
D. Subject indexing and cataloging
1. Library of Congress Subject Headings
2. Other indexing systems and thesauri (e.g., Medical Subject Headings)
LIS 655 ORGANIZATION OF KNOWLEDGE I
Branton, Ann and Aiping Chen-Gaffey. “MARC 21 Tutorial.” (2004)
http://www.lib.usm.edu/~techserv/pdc/,arc21_tutorial_ie
Caplan, Priscilla. "International Metadata Initiatives: Lessons in Bibliographic Control," Library of Congress Bicentennial Conference on Bibliographic Control for the New Millennium Washington, D.C., November 2000.
http://lcweb.loc.gov/catdir/bibcontrol/caplan_paper.html
Chan, Lois Mai. "Classification, Present and Future." Cataloging & Classification Quarterly 21(2):5-17 (1995).
Chepesiuk, Ron. "Organizing the Internet: The 'Core' of the Challenge. American Libraries 30(1):60-63 (January 1999).
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Comaromi, J.P. "Conception and Development of the Dewey Decimal Classification," International Classification 3:11‑15 (1976).
Crawford, Walt. "The Card Catalog and Other Digital Controversies: What's Obsolete and What's Not in the Age of Information." American Libraries 30(1):53-58 (January 1999).
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Delsey, Tom. "The Library Catalogue in a Networked Environment," Library of Congress Bicentennial Conference on Bibliographic Control for the New Millennium Washington, D.C., November 2000. http://lcweb.loc.gov/catdir/bibcontrol/delsey_paper.html
“Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records: FRBR Homepage,” IFLANET, International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (rev. Dec. 04, 2002)
http://www.ifla.org/VII/s13/pubs/wgfrbr.htm
Gorman, Michael. "Descriptive Cataloguing: Its Past, Present, and Future." In Technical Services Today and Tomorrow, Michael Gorman and Associates. 2nd ed. Englewood, CO: Libraries Unlimited, 1998. Pp. 79-94.
http://www.netlibrary.com/ebook_info.asp?product_id=13230
Gorman, Michael. "From Card Catalogues to WebPACS: Celebrating Cataloguing in the 20th Century," Library of Congress Bicentennial Conference on Bibliographic Control for the New Millennium Washington, D.C., November 2000. http://lcweb.loc.gov/catdir/bibcontrol/gorman_paper.html
Gorman, Michael. "Why Teach Cataloguing and Classification?" Cataloging & Classification Quarterly 34, no. 1/2: 1-13 (2002).
Holley, Robert P. "Cataloging: An exciting Subject for Exciting Times." Cataloging & Classification Quarterly 34, no. 1/2: 43-57 (2002).
Hopkins, Judith. “USMARC as a Metadata Shell,” Journal of Internet Cataloging 2(1):55-68 (1999).
International Conference on Cataloguing Principles, Paris, 1961. "Statement of Principles." In Report of International Conference on Cataloguing Principles. A.H. Chaplin and Dorothy Anderson, eds. London: Organizing Committee of the International Conference on Cataloguing Principles, National Central Library, 1963. Pp. 91‑96.
Jeng, Ling Hwey. "What Authority? Why Control?" Cataloging & Classification Quarterly 34 no. 4: 91-97 (2002).
Kaplan, Michael. "Exploring Partnerships: What Can Producers and Vendors Provide?" Library of Congress Bicentennial Conference on Bibliographic Control for the New Millennium Washington, D.C., November 2000.
http://lcweb.loc.gov/catdir/bibcontrol/kaplan_paper.html
Koch, Traugott, and Michael Day. The Role of Classification Schemes in Internet Resource Description and Discovery. http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/metadata/desire/classification/
Lubetzky, Seymour. "Principles of Descriptive Cataloging," in Foundations of Cataloging: A Sourcebook, ed. Michael Carpenter and Elaine Svenonius. Littleton, CO: Libraries Unlimited, 1985, p. 104‑112 (Reprinted from Studies of Descriptive Cataloging. Washington, DC: Library of Congress, 1946, p. 25‑33).
The MARC 21 Formats: Background and Principles. MARBI, American Library Association's ALCTS/LITA/RUSA, Machine-Readable Bibliographic Information Committee in conjunction with Network Development and MARC Standards Office, Library of Congress. Revised November 1996. http://lcweb.loc.gov/marc/96principl.html#one
McCallum, Sally. "Extending MARC for Bibliographic Control in the Web Environment: Challenges and Alternatives," Library of Congress Bicentennial Conference on Bibliographic Control for the New Millennium Washington, D.C., November 15th 2000.
http://lcweb.loc.gov/catdir/bibcontrol/mccallum_paper.html
McCallum, Sally. "MARC: Keystone for Library Automation.” IEEE Annals of the History of Computing 24(2):34-49 (April/June 2002)
http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/tocresult.jsp?isNumber=21773
Milcetich, M. "The History and Impact of ISBD." Library Resources & Technical Services 26:177‑182 (April/June 1982).
Morris, Dilys E. & Gregory Wool. "Cataloging: Librarianship's Best Bargain." Library Journal 124(11):44-46 (June 15, 1999).
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Oder, Norman. "Cataloging the Net: Can We Do It?" Library Journal 123(6):47-51 (October 1, 1998).
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Smits, J. "Metadata, an Introduction." Cataloging & Classification Quarterly 21 no. 3/4 (2002): 303-19.
Stevens, Norman D. "The Catalogs of the Future: A Speculative Essay." Information Technology and Libraries 17(4):183-87 (December 1998).
Stevens, Norman D. "Looking Back at Looking Ahead, or 'The Catalogs of the Future Revisited' with Additional Speculation." Information Technology and Libraries 17(4):188-90 (December 1998).
Talmacs, Kerrie. "Authority Control." In Technical Services Today and Tomorrow, Michael Gorman and Associates. 2nd ed. Englewood, CO: Libraries Unlimited, 1998. Pp. 129-39.
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Taylor, Arlene G. “Metadata: Description.” In The Organization of Information. Englewood, CO: Libraries Unlimited, 1999. Pp. 77-101.
Tennant, Roy. "Digital Libraries: 21st-Century Catalog." Library Journal 123(7):30-31 (April 15, 1998).
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ORGANIZATION OF KNOWLEDGE I
SUPPLEMENTARY BACKGROUND READING
THE CATALOG AND CATALOGING
Baker, N. "Discards." The New Yorker 64-86 (April 4, 1994)
Byrum, John. “Recommendations for Urgently Needed Improvement of OPAC and the Role of the National Bibliographic Agency in Achieving It,” World Library and Information Congress: 71th IFLA General Conference and Council. http://www.ifla.org/IV/ifla71/papers/124e-Byrum.pdf
Cataloging and the Organization of Information: Philosophies, Practices, and Challenges at the Onset of the 21st Century. Binghamton, NY: Haworth Press, 2000. Also published as Volume 30, Numbers 1-3 of Cataloging & Classification Quarterly.
Cutter, Charles A. Rules for a Dictionary Catalog. 4th ed. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1904. Republished, London: The Library Association, 1953. (First published under the title Rules for a Printed Dictionary Catalogue in 1876.)
The Future of Cataloging :Insights from the Lubetzky Symposium : April 18, 1998, University of California, Los Angeles. Edited by Tschera Harkness Connell, Robert L. Maxwell. Chicago : American Library Association, 2000.
http://www.netlibrary.com/ebook_info.asp?product_id=45148
Hagler, Ronald. The Bibliographic Record and Information Technology. 3rd ed. Chicago: American Library Association, 1997.
http://www.netlibrary.com/ebook_info.asp?product_id=45119
Henderson, Kathryn Luther. "'Treated with a Degree of Uniformity and Common Sense': Descriptive Cataloging in the United States‑‑1876‑1975." Library Trends 25: 227‑271 (July 1976).
Hsieh-Yee, Ingrid. Organizing Audiovisual and Electronic Resources for Access: A Cataloging Guide. Englewood, CO: Libraries Unlimited, 1999.
Z695.615 .H78 2000
Intner, Sheila S., and Jean Weihs. Standard Cataloging for School and Public Libraries. 3rd ed. Englewood, CO: Libraries Unlimited, 2001.
http://www.netlibrary.com/ebook_info.asp?product_id=18422
Markuson, Barbara Evans. "Bibliographic Systems, 1945-1976." Library Trends 25:311-327 (July 1976).
Scott, Edith. "The Evolution of Bibliographic Systems in the United States, 1876-1945," Library Trends 25:293-310 (July 1976).
AACR2R
Chan, Lois M. "The Principle of Uniform Heading in Descriptive Cataloging: Ideal and Reality," Cataloging & Classification Quarterly 3(4):19-35 (Summer 1983).
Gorman, Michael. "General Description and Description of Books, Pamphlets, and Printed Sheets," in The Making of a Code: The Issues Underlying AACR2: Papers Given at the International Conference on AACR2, 1979, ed. Doris Hagrett Clack. Chicago: American Library Association, 1980. Pp. 53-60.
AUTHORITY CONTROL
Auld, Larry. "Authority Control: An Eighty-Year Review," Library Resources & Technical Services 26:319-330 (Oct./Dec. 1982).
Delsey, Tom. “Authority Records in a Networked Environment.” International Cataloguing and Bibliographic Control v. 33 no. 4 (October/December 2004) p. 71-4.
Maxwell, Robert L. Maxwell’s Guide to Authority Work. Chicago: American Library Association, 2002.
Z693.3.A88 M39 2002
Tillett, Barbara B. "Authority Control on the Web,” Library of Congress Bicentennial Conference on Bibliographic Control for the New Millennium Washington, D.C., November 15th 2000.
http://lcweb.loc.gov/catdir/bibcontrol/tillett_paper.html
Tillett, Barbara B. "Considerations for Authority Control in the Online Environment," Cataloging & Classification Quarterly 9(3):1-13 (1989).
SUBJECT ACCESS
Bates, Marcia J. "Subject Access in Online Catalogs: A Design Model." Journal of the American Society for Information Science 37 (1986): 357‑376.
Chan, Lois Mai. "Still Robust at 100: A Century of LC Subject Headings.” The Library of Congress Information Bulletin 57(8):200-201 (August 1998).
Chan, Lois Mai and Theodora Hodges, rev. Giles Martin. "Subject Cataloguing and Classification." In Technical Services Today and Tomorrow, Michael Gorman and Associates. 2nd ed. Englewood, CO: Libraries Unlimited, 1998. Pp. 95-109.
http://www.netlibrary.com/ebook_info.asp?product_id=13230
Delsey, Tom. “Modeling Subject Access: Extending the FRBR and FRANAR Conceptual Models.” Cataloging & Classification Quarterly v. 39 no. 3/4 (2005) p. 49-61.
MacLennan, Alan. “Classification and the Internet.” In The Future of Classification. Ed. Rita Marcella and Arthur Maltby, 59-68. Brookfield, VT: Gower, 2000.
Olson, Hope A. and John J. Boll. Subject Analysis in Online Catalogs. 2nd ed. Englewood, CO: Libraries Unlimited, 2001.
Z699.35.S92 A46 2001
Taylor, Arlene G. "On the Subject of Subjects," Journal of Academic Librarianship. 21, no. 6 (Nov. 1995): 484‑491.
http://search.epnet.com/direct.asp?an=9602160133&db=aph&tg=AN
MARC FORMATS
Avram, Henriette D. MARC: Its History and Implications. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, 1975.
Fritz, Deborah A. and Richard J. Fritz. MARC 21 for Everyone: A Practical Guide. Chicago: American Library Association, 2002.
Z699.35.M28 F75 2003
McCallum, Sally. (2002) International MARC, Past, Present and Future. In Advances in Librarianship 26:127-148.
McCallum, Sally. (2003) Library of Congress Metadata Landscape. Zeitschrift fur Bibliothekswesen und Bibliographie 4:????
McCallum, Sally. “What Makes a Standard?” Cataloging & Classification Quarterly 21(3/4):5-15 (1996).
DESCRIBING AND ENCODING ELECTRONIC RESOURCES
Barry, Randall K. "Development of the Encoded Archival Description Document Type Definition."
http://www.loc.gov/ead/eadback.html
Burnard, Lou. "What is SGML and How Does It Help?" 1991.
http://www.uic.edu/orgs/tei/intros/edw25.doc
Caplan, Priscilla L. Metadata Fundamentals for All Librarians. Chicago: American Library Association, 2003.
Z666.5 .C37 2003
Caplan, Priscilla L. and Rebecca S. Guenther. "Metadata for Internet Resources: the Dublin Core Metadata Elements Set and Its Mapping to USMARC," Cataloging and Classification Quarterly 22 (3/4):43-58 (1996).
The Dublin Core Metadata Element Set Home Page
http://www.oclc.org:5046/research/dublin_core/
Giordano, Richard. "The Documentation of Electronic Texts Using Text Encoding Initiative Headers: An Introduction." Library Resources & Technical Services 38(4):389-401, October 1994.
Guenther, Rebecca and Sally McCallum. (2002) New Metadata Standards for Digital Resources: MODS and METS. ASIST Bulletin 29(2):????
Jul, Eirk. "Cataloging Internet Resources: Survey and Prospectus." Bulletin of the American Society for Information Science 24(1):6-9 (Oct./Nov. 1997).