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LIS 415 – Information organization
The phenomena, activities, and issues surrounding the organization of information in service of users and user communities. Topics include resource types and formats, information service institutions, markup, descriptive metadata, content standards, subject analysis and classification, and the information life cycle. Readings, discussions, examinations, and oral and written exercises. 3 semester hours.
Course-specific learning outcomes
By the end of the course, the student
- uses the standard tools of cataloguing, classification, and indexing at a basic level of proficiency
- can develop a simple data model for a given collection
- uses the vocabulary of the field appropriately
- can help a user use an information discovery system effectively
- demonstrates knowledge of core concepts and principles
I can’t find
- the assignments, lecture slides, handouts, my grades – these are all in eLearning.
- the page you said we should subscribe to – that’s the Course news page.
- the bookmarks you showed us during class – these are on the bookmarks page.
- all those bookmarks on metadata and so on – those are in delicious (check the tag bundles on the right of the delicious page).
- Classification Web or Cataloger’s DeskTop – these are both Simmons e-resources, and you need to log in from the GSLIS Library page.
- the instructions about how to name files, what happens if I turn in something late, what the grading system is – those are in the Student FAQ
