LIBR 510: FOUNDATIONS OF BIBLIOGRAPHIC CONTROL – COURSE
SYLLABUS
Program: Master
of Library and Information Studies
Year: 2005-2006,
Winter session, Term 1
Course Schedule: Tuesdays
1:30-4:30
Location: FNS
40
Instructor: Joseph
T. Tennis
Office location: TEF
III 338
Office phone: 604.822.2431
Office
hours: by appointment
E-mail
address: jtennis@interchange.ubc.ca
Course Goal: This course and those that follow from it speak
particularly to the "organization ... of society's recorded
information and ideas" in the SLAIS mission statement. Generally,
its primary goal is to introduce students to and have them become
familiar with some of the principles and techniques of bibliographic
control, including current trends. Specifically, it enables students
to develop the capabilities to organize information resources
for effective retrieval and to understand the importance of information
organization. A related and equally important goal of LIBR 510
is to encourage students to become better information professionals
overall, i.e., to enable them to interpret and use bibliographic
data more effectively and efficiently.
Course Objectives:
The specific objectives of LIBR 510 are:
- to provide a bridge from the student’s own initial
state of knowledge and experience, and to aid in developing
a personal set of principles for organizing information
emphasize
the importance of client needs as the underlying basis
for the organization and representation of recorded information
- to provide the conceptual underpinnings such that students
may develop an understanding of the general role of bibliographic
control in the information transfer process, and its particular
role in information systems design and operation
- to introduce a variety of methods for representing, organizing,
and storing recorded information through the use, for example,
of standardized cataloguing codes and controlled vocabularies
- to acquaint students with the principles and methods of providing
access to recorded information
- to provide the opportunity for students to explore both traditional
and nontraditional techniques for describing and providing
access to electronic documents available remotely
- to provide a basis for the evaluation and comparison of different
methods of representing, organizing, and storing recorded information
such that students can understand and articulate what makes
for an effective information retrieval system
- to acquaint students with the basic principles of bibliographic
classification and subject analysis
- to survey some of the issues or problems, including the implications
of technological change, involved in the organization and representation
of recorded information, and to propose possible solutions
to these problems
- to acquaint students with the current trends in bibliographic
control and have them recognize those that represent genuine
advances in thinking, practice, etc. as opposed to those that
are merely a “flash in the pan”.
Prerequisites and/or Course Restrictions: LIBR500
and LIBR560 required as co- or prerequisite; LIBR540 preferred
as co-requisite. LIBR510 is limited to SLAIS students admitted
to the MLIS or Joint Degree Program, to students admitted to the
MAS program and taking the First Nations Curriculum Concentration,
or to education students in the MEd in teacher-librarianship program.
Other students may be admitted to LIBR510 with the approval of
the SLAIS Graduate Adviser.
Format of the course: One lecture/seminar session
per week.
Required and Recommended Reading:
[•••• THIS LIST IS SUBJECT TO CHANGE BY INSTRUCTOR ••••]
Texts to buy
- Svenonius, E. (2001). The Intellectual Foundation of Information
Organization. ( Cambridge: MIT Press).
- Wilson, P. (1968). Two kinds of power: an essay on bibliographic
control ( Berkeley: University of California).
- Custom Course Materials
Notes on Readings:
My class has three types of readings: Required, Optional, and
Reference.
- Required* – you are expected to read these before
class the class session, and be able to comment on
these readings
- Optional – these readings offer additional perspectives,
information, and context for weekly topics
- Reference Material – these readings are not to be “read” but
rather, to be used for assignments, practice exercises, and for
future information work related to information organization
* Where you are not required to read the whole piece, I have
placed a [skim] note next to the citation
Schedule of Readings
Week 1 Introduction to Information Organization
[47 pages]
- Svenonius, E. (2001). "Information Organization" In The
Intellectual Foundation of Information Organization. (
Cambridge: MIT Press): 1-14.
- Borko, H., & Bernier, C. L. (1975). "Characteristics
and types of abstracts." In Abstracting concepts
and methods ( San Diego, CA: Academic Press):13-24.
- Lakoff, G., & Johnson, M. (1980). "Metaphorical
systematicity: highlighting and hiding." In Metaphors
we live by (pp. 10-13). Chicago: University
of Chicago Press.
- Wilson, P. (1968). "Chapter II: Describing
and Exploiting." in Two
kinds of power: an essay on bibliographic control:
20-40.
Optional
- Borges, J. L. "Library of Babel." In Collected
fictions. Andrew Hurley (Trans.) (New York: Viking):112-118.
- Svenonius, E. (2001). "Preface." In The Intellectual
Foundation of Information Organization. (Cambridge:
MIT Press): ix-xiv.
- Wilson, P. (1968). "Introduction." In Two
kinds of power: an essay on bibliographic control:
1-5.
Reference Material
Week 2 Documents and Works
[34 pages]
- Svenonius, E. (2001). "Bibliographic Entities." In Intellectual
Foundation of Information Organization. (Cambridge: MIT
Press): 31-52.
- Wilson, P. (1968). "Chapter I: Bibliographical Universe." In Two
kinds of power: an essay on bibliographic control. (Berkeley,
CA: University of California Press): 6-19.
Optional
- Smiraglia, R. P. (2003). "The history of 'the work' in
the modern catalog." In Cataloging and classification
quarterly 35(3/4): 553-567.
- STIC-CNRS. (2003). "Document: form, sign and medium,
as reformulated for electronic documents." PDF Available:
http://tinyurl.com/bzlek
- Briet, S. (1951/2001) Qu'est-ce que la documentation? [What
is documentation?] Trans. Ron Day and Laurent Martinet.
Originally published in Éditions Documentaires Industrielles
et Techniques (EDIT) in Paris. Translation available:
http://www.lisp.wayne.edu/~ai2398/briet.htm
Reference Material
Week 3: Objectives of the Catalogue
[28 pages + Panizzi]
[skim]
- Panizzi, A. (1848/1995). "Mr. Panizzi to the Right Hon.
The Earl of Ellesmere. – British Museum, January 29, 1848." In Foundations
of Cataloging: a Sourcebook. Carpenter and Svenonius (eds.).
(Littleton, CO: Libraries Unlimited): 18-41.
[read]
- Wilson, P. (1968). "Chapter IV. Bibliographical instruments
and their specifications." In Two kinds of power:
an essay on bibliographic control: 55-68.
- Svenonius, E. (2001). "Bibliographic Objectives." In The
Intellectual Foundation of Information Organization. (Cambridge:
MIT Press): 15-30.
Optional
- Svenonius, E. (2001). "Bibliographic Languages." In The
Intellectual Foundation of Information Organization. (Cambridge:
MIT Press): 53-66
Week 4: Description I - Describing Documents and Works
[26 pages]
- Svenonius, E. (2001). "Work Languages." In The
Intellectual Foundation of Information Organization. (Cambridge:
MIT Press): 87-106
- Wilson, T. D. (2000). “Human Information Behavior.” In Informing
Science3(2). Available:
http://inform.nu/Articles/Vol3/v3n2p49-56.pdf
Optional
- Svenonius, E. (2001). "Principles of Description." In The
Intellectual Foundation of Information Organization. (Cambridge:
MIT Press): 67-86
Week 5: Description II – Providing
Access to Documents and Works
[32 pages]
- Hagler, R. (1997). "Access Points." In TheBibliographic
Record and Information Technology. 3rd ed. (Chicago: ALA): 95-121.
- Mäki, U. (2001). "Models, Metaphors, Narrative,
and Rhetoric: Philosophical Aspects." In International
Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences Smelser
and Baltes eds. (Amsterdam: Elsevier):9931-9937.
Optional
- Svenonius, E. (2001). "Document Languages." In The
Intellectual Foundation of Information Organization. (Cambridge:
MIT Press): 107-126
Reference Material
Week 6: Encoding
[33 pages + the tutorial]
Reference Material:
Week 7: Interpreting Documents
[54 pages]
- Wilson, P. (1968). "Chapter V: subjects and the sense
of position." In Two kinds of power: an essay in bibliographic
control (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press):
69-92
- Mai, J-E. (2001). "Semiotics and indexing: an analysis
of the subject indexing process." In Journal of Documentation 57(5):
591-622.
Optional
- Wilson, P. (1968). "Chapter VI: indexing, coupling, hunting." In Two
kinds of power: an essay in bibliographic control (Berkeley,
CA: University of California Press): 93-113.
Reference Material
- British Standards Organisation. (1984). British Standard
Recommendations for Examining Documents, Determining Their
Subjects and Selecting Indexing Terms. BS6529:
1984.
Available: on reserve in Koerner
- nternational Organization for Standardization. (1985). Documentation
-- Methods for Examining Documents, Determining their Subjects
and Selecting Indexing Terms. ISO 5963-1985.
Available:
on reserve in Koerner
Week 8: Vocabulary Control
[30 pages]
- Svenonius, E. (2001). "Subject Languages: Introduction,
Vocabulary Selection, and Classification." In The Intellectual
Foundation of Information Organization. (Cambridge: MIT
Press): 123-146.
- Furnas, G. W., Gomez, L. M., Landauer, T. K., Dumais, S T. (1987). "The
vocabulary problem in human-system communication?" in Communications
of the ACM 30(11):964-971.
Optional
- Hjørland, B. (1998) "The classification of psychology: a
case study in the classification of a knowledge field." In Knowledge
Organization, 25(4):162-201
Week 9: Information Structures I – Subject
Languages
[44 pages]
- Svenonius, E. (2001). "Subject Languages: Referential
and Relational Semantics." In The Intellectual Foundation
of Information Organization. (Cambridge: MIT Press): 147-172.
- Svenonius, E. (2001). "Subject-Language Syntax." In The
Intellectual Foundation of Information Organization. (Cambridge:
MIT Press): 173-192.
Reference Material:
- American National Standards Institute. (1993). Guidelines
for the construction, format, and management of monolingual
thesauri. ANSI/NISO Z39.19
Available: http://www.niso.org/standards/resources/Z39-19.html (three
parts)
- ntroduction to the Library of Congress Subject Headings
Available:
in Lab-2 in SLAIS
Week 10: Information Structures II – Classification
Theory
[37 pages]
- Rowley, J. (1992). "Chapter 13. The Theory of Bibliographic
Classification," In Organizing Knowledge: An
Introduction to Information Retrieval. 2nd ed. (Hants, England: Ashgate):
176-199.
- Neelameghan, A. "Classification, Theory of" In Encyclopedia
of Library and Information Science. (New York: Marcel
Dekker, Inc): 546-560.
Optional
- Ranganathan, S. R. (1967). Prolegomena to Library Classification. 3rd
ed. (Bombay: Asia Publishing House): 47-110, 395-482.
Available:
on reserve in Koerner
Reference Material:
Week 11 Metadata I - Dublin Core Records
and Resource Discovery
[50 pages]
- Wilson, P. (1968). "VIII Reliability" In Two
kinds of power: an essay in bibliographic control (Berkeley,
CA: University of California Press):125-131
- Wilson, P. (1968). "IX Adequacy of Bibliographical
Policy" In Two
kinds of power: an essay in bibliographic control (Berkeley,
CA: University of California Press):132-155.
- Hillmann, D. (2003). Using Dublin Core. [about 6
pages]
Available: http://www.dublincore.org/documents/usageguide/
- Duval, E., Hodges, W., Sutton, S. A., Weibel, S. L. (2002). "Metadata
principles and practicalities." In D-Lib Magazine 8(4).
[about 14 pages]
Available: http://www.dlib.org/dlib/april02/weibel/04weibel.html
Reference
Week 12 Metadata II – Application Profiles and Registries
[26 pages]
Reference Materials:
Week 13 Semantic Web and Social Tagging/Folksonomies
[13 plus your choice from the Bulletin]
Choose One from this issue:
Reference Material
Course Assignments, Due dates and
Weight in relation to final course mark:
Assignment |
Due Date |
Weight |
Total |
Midterm Response Essay |
Week 6 |
50% |
|
Final Project |
Week 13 |
50% |
|
|
|
|
100% |
Course Schedule
Week and Date |
Topic |
1 – September 6 |
Information Organization and
Representation |
2 – September 13 |
Documents and Works |
3 – September 20 |
Objectives of the Catalogue |
4 – September 27 |
Description I – Describing
Works |
5 – October 4 |
Description II – Providing
Access to Works |
6 – October 11 |
Encoding Descriptions |
7 – October 18 |
Interpreting Documents |
8 – October 25 |
Vocabulary Control |
9 – November 1 |
Information Structures I – Subject
Languages |
10 – November 8 |
Information Structures II – Classification
Theory |
11 – November 15 |
Dublin Core and Resource Discovery |
12 – November 22 |
Metadata Architecture for Resource
Discovery |
13 – November 29 |
Semantic Web and Social Tagging/Folksonomies |
Attendance : The calendar states: “Regular
attendance is expected of students in all their classes (including
lectures, laboratories, tutorials, seminars, etc.). Students who
neglect their academic work and assignments may be excluded from
the final examinations. Students who are unavoidably absent because
of illness or disability should report to their instructors on
return to classes.”
Evaluation : All assignments will be awarded
letter grades using the evaluative criteria given on the SLAIS
web site.
School of Library, Archival and Information Studies Grading
Policy : Many faculty members assign letter grades to
papers and assignments. Below is shown an explanation of what each
letter grade assigned by a SLAIS instructor means. However, grades
are reported to the Registrar on a percentage basis, and appear
in that form on your transcript. In addition, the Registrar's computer
automatically converts percentage grades to letter grades, which
also appear on your transcript.
A+ 90-100%
Unusually high achievement
demonstrating exceptional analytical ability, creativity, and clarity
of expression; a grade rarely given.
A 85-89%
Consistently
excellent work demonstrating high degree of analytical ability,
creativity, and clarity of expression.
A- 80-84%
Excellence
noted in many aspects of the work, which demonstrates analytical
ability, creativity and clarity of expression.
B+ 76-79%
Work demonstrating
diligence and effort above basic requirements.
B 72-75%
Solid
work meeting the basic course requirements.
B- 68-71%
Acceptable
work meeting the minimum of expectations but demonstrating limited
performance.
C+ 64-67%
Work which
casts doubt as to the student's ability or readiness to meet course
requirements.
C 60-63%
Work
barely permitting a pass in the single course.
F 00-59%
Failure.
Written & Spoken English Requirement: Written
and spoken work may receive a lower mark if it is, in the opinion
of the instructor, deficient in English.
Additional course information:
Svenonius, Wilson, and the CCM (Custom Course Materials) are
at the bookstore. All materials not online can be found in Koerner
reserve (at the left of the main entrance).
You are expected to subscribe to the class discussion list. We
will use this list for announcements and general information sharing
during the course.
To sign up for class discussion list send an email message to:
majordomo@interchange.ubc.ca
In the body of the message write: subscribe l-510
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The instructor reserves the right to make changes to the course
schedule.
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