This course covers rules and encoding for description and access points as presented in AACR2 and MARC. Students create descriptions of items such as serials, sound and video recordings, realia, computer files, maps, websites, etc. Lectures cover topics such as Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records, OPAC design, and metadata.
Prerequisites: MLIS 9002
Classification and indexing within a broader perspective of human intellectual activity. Current research trends in the subject control of information. Further opportunities to practice classifying, subject cataloguing and indexing of documents. Ways in which classification and indexing principles are affecting, and affected by, new information technologies.
Prerequisites: MLIS 9002
Theory and practice in indexing and in constructing subject retrieval languages in thesaurus form. Distinguishing between controlled and natural language indexing, and between subject headings and index terms. Applying facet analysis to thesaurus construction. Selected topics in the theory of subject analysis.
Prerequisites: MLIS 9002
This course will address the essentials of Records Management in today’s organization. The records life-cycle/continuum models, expansion of electronic document management, and contemporary issues facing information management professionals will be explored throughout the course content. Particular focus will be on the integration of traditional paper based and electronic records systems.
Prerequisites: MLIS 9002