University of Arizona
School of Information Resources & Library Science
IRLS 515 - Organization of Information
Spring 2006 - Syllabus - DRAFT
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SCHEDULE
Important Note: This is a schedule of readings from the text only.
- Week 1, - What's Your Learning Style? | Familiarize yourself with syllabus
- Week 2, - Organization of Recorded Information & Retrieval Tools
Read Taylor, Chapter 1, 2
- Week 3, - Development of the Organization of Recorded Information in Western Civilization
Read Taylor, Chapter 3
- Week 4, - Encoding Standards, & Systems and System Design
Read Taylor, Chapter 4, 5
- Week 5, - Metadata, Metadata: Description, Metadata: Access & Authority Control
Read Taylor, Chapter 6, 7, 8
- Week 6, - Catch-up
Review chapter 1-8 and post in Discussions
- Week 7, - Subject Analysis
Read Taylor, Chapter 9
- Week 8, - Systems for Vocabulary Control
Read Taylor, Chapter 10
- Week 9, - Systems for Categorization
Read Taylor, Chapter 11
- Week 10, - Systems for Categorization (contd.)
Read Taylor, Chapter 11 (review)
- Week 11, - The Making of Retrieval Tools
Read TBD
- Week 12, - Arrangement & Display
Read Taylor, Chapter 12
- Week 13, - Review II
Read Taylor, your choice
Week 14, - Break
- Week 15, - Final Review: What Have We Learned?
Review, Practice, Discuss Recent Advances & Trends.
- Week 16, - Present Major Project to class
Share in WebCT Presentations and Discussions
- Week 17, - Finals week (last day of class)
MILESTONES/IMPORTANT DATES
- TBD - Assignment 1 completed and submitted
- TBD - Start working on final Major Project
- TBD - Selective Annotated Bibliography selected and compiled
- TBD - Assignment 2 - Major project presented to class
- TBD - Last date to submit major project in WebCT