• Course description
• Readings
• Cataloging tools
• Cataloging guidebooks
• Supplementary materials
• Course schedule
  

This course is designed for students who are interested in organizing information resources for access. It covers the cataloging and management of the following types of resources: Computer files, Internet resources, serials, electronic serials, sound recordings, and videorecordings. The course includes in-depth coverage of Library of Congress subject headings and selected schedules from the Library of Congress Classification system. In addition, students have hands-on experience in creating and editing records on the OCLC Connexion system. To prepare students for the organization of digital and print resources, the class also examines the relationship between metadata and cataloging and students obtain experience in the implementation of metadata schemas such as Dublinc Core (DC). . 

Course objectives

The objectives of the course are for students to

• Obtain knowledge and skills in cataloging computer files, Internet resources, serials, electronic serials, sound recordings, and videorecordings. 
• Become more efficient in using LC subject headings and LC classification schedules for subject cataloging.
• Have hands-on practice with Connexion.
• Become aware of various ways of organizing information, especially information in nonprint formats.
• Become cognizant of issues related to the organization of electronic resources.
• Understand the roles of metadata for information organization.
• Experience the use of Dublin Core.
• Understand catalogers’ roles in the changing information environment.

Lectures, discussions, exercises, and projects.

Evaluation

• Exercises (30 points). Six exercises are designed to give students hands-on practice in cataloging resources of various formats. Exercises are due on the dates specified and students should be prepared for class discussion. The exercises will not be graded but problematic ones will be returned for revision. No late exercises will be accepted and five points will be taken off the final course grade for every exercise a student fails to turn in on time.
  
• Project  (35 points). Students will select five important Web resources that have not been cataloged in Connexion and create MARC records for them. They will develop guidelines for using Dublin Core and apply their guidelines to create Dublin Core records for the five selected Web resources. Records can be created in Connexion or an information system approved by the instructor. For this project each student will turn in five MARC records and five DC records, DC guidelines, and a report on lessons learned from creating these records. Project details will be distributed on Day One.
  
• Final examination (25 points). A take-home examination to test students' knowledge of important cataloging concepts and the relationship between metadata and cataloging as well as their ability in cataloging nonprint materials. 
  

• Class participation (10 points). Students are expected to participate in class discussions. To facilitate communication outside the classroom, a class listserv has been created. Students are encourage to use the listserv throughout the semester to pose questions, share insights, and discuss issues related to information organization.

See "Course schedule" below for readings for each week. Students are expected to complete the assigned readings before each class meeting and actively participate in class discussion. Internet materials are hyperlinked on the course Web page, journal articles are on electronic reserve and books are on reserve at the Library Science Library. Students are encouraged to do additional readings and share their insight with the class.

Required and recommended texts

Anglo-American cataloguing Rules, second edition, 2002 revision. 2002. Chicago: American Library Association.

Chan, Lois Mai. 1995. Library of Congress Subject Headings: Principles and application. 3rd ed. Englewood, Colo.: Libraries Unlimited. (recommended)

Chan, Lois Mai. 1999. A guide to the Library of Congress Classification. 5th ed. Englewood, Colo.: Libraries Unlimited.

Hsieh-Yee, Ingrid. 2000. Organizing audiovisual and electronic resources for access: A cataloging guide. Englewood, Colo.: Libraries Unlimited.

Required readings

Anderson, Bill, & Hawkins, Les. 1996. Development of CONSER cataloging policies for remote access computer file serials. Public-Access Computer Systems Review 7, no. 1: 6-25. URL = http://info.lib.uh.edu/pr/v7/n1/ande7n1.html

Cargille, Karen, ed. 1998. Lost in cyberspace? Issues in subject access to electronic journals. Serials Review 24, no. 2: 101-109.

Chepesiuk, Ron. 1999. Organizing the Internet: The "core" of the challenge. American Libraries 30, no. 1:  60-63.

CONSER Cataloging Manual Module 31: Remote Access Computer File Serials. By Melissa Beck, with the assistance of Bill Anderson, Les Hawkins, and Regina Reynolds. Revised June 30, 1998. URL = http://lcweb.loc.gov/acq/conser/module31.html

Gilliland-Swetland, Ann J. 1998. Defining metadata. In Introduction to Metadata: Pathways to Digital Information (pp. 1-8). Los Angeles: Getty Information Institute.

Gorman, Michael. 2003. Cataloguing in an electronic age.  Cataloging & Classification Quarterly, 36, no. ¾: 5-17

Guenther, Rebecca. 2001. Library application profile. URL = http://dublincore.org/documents/library-application-profile/

Herrera, Gail and L. Aldana. 2001. Integrating electronic resources into the library catalog: A collaborative approach. Portal: Libraries and the Academy. 1.3: 241-256.

Hodge, Grace. Metadata made simple. Bethesda, MD: NISO, 2000. Also online: http://www.niso.org/news/Metadata_simpler.pdf

Jul, Erik. 2003. MARC and mark-up. Cataloging & Classification Quarterly, 36, no. ¾: 141-153.

Mandel, C. A., and R. Wolven. 1996. Intellectual access to digital documents: Joining proven principles with new technologies. Cataloging & Classification Quarterly 22, no. 34: 25-42.

Milstead, J., and Susan Feldman. 1999a. Metadata: Cataloging by any other name. Online 23, no. 1: 25-31.

Milstead, Jessica, and Susan Feldman. 1999b. Metadata projects and standards. Online 23, no. 1: 32-40.

Oder, Norm. 2000. Cataloging the Net: two years later. Library Journal 125, no. 16: 50-51. 

Reynolds, Regina Romano. 2001. Seriality and the Web. In Managing electronic serials (pp. 1-17). Chicago: American Library Association.

Rodriguez, Juan Carlos. 2001. Anticipating the deluge: The INFORMINE Project and its approach to metadata. In Cataloging the Web: Metadata, AACR, and MARC 21 (pp. 87-99). Lanham, MD: Scarecrow.

Schottlaender, Brian E.C. 2003. Why Metadata? Why Me? Why Now? Cataloging & Classification Quarterly, 36, no. ¾: 19-29.

Svenonius, Elaine. 2000. Bibliographic objectives. In The Intellectual Foundation of Information Organization (pp. 15-30). Cambridge: MIT Press.

Wilson, Mary Dabney. 2001. Flying first class or economy? Classification of electronic titles in ARL libraries. Portal: Libraries and the Academy. 1.3: 225-240.

Younger, Jennifer A. 2002. Metadata and Libraries: What’s It All About? In Cataloging the Web: metadata, AACR, and MARC 21, edited by Wayne Jones, Judith R. Ahronheim, and Josephine Crawford. Lanham, Maryland: Scarecrow, 3-11.

Cataloging Service Bulletin 1- , 1978-  Washington, DC: Processing Services, Library of Congress.

CONSER Cataloging Manual Module 31: Remote Access Computer File Serials. By Melissa Beck, with the assistance of Bill Anderson, Les Hawkins, and Regina Reynolds. Revised June 30, 1998. URL =  http://lcweb.loc.gov/acq/conser/module31.html

Library of Congress. 1990- Library of Congress rule interpretations. Washington, DC: Cataloging Distribution Service, Library of Congress. Available on Catalogers' Desktop in the SLIS Computer Lab.

Library of Congress. 1996 (or the latest edition in the SLIS Library). Subject Cataloging Division. Subject cataloging manual: Subject headings. Washington, DC: Cataloging Distribution Service, Library of Congress. Also available on Catalogers' Desktop in the SLIS Computer Lab.

Library of Congress. 1999. Free-floating subdivisions: An alphabetical index. Washington, DC: Cataloging Distribution Service, Library of Congress. Also available on Catalogers' Desktop in the SLIS Computer Lab.

Library of Congress. Cataloging Policy and Support Office. 1995. Subject cataloging manual: Shelflisting. 2nd ed. Washington, DC: Library of Congress.

Library of Congress. Cataloging Policy and Support Office. 199- Classification. Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress, Cataloging Distribution Service.

Library of Congress. Office for Subject Cataloging Policy. 1992. Subject cataloging manual: Classification. 1st ed. Washington, DC: Cataloging Distribution Service, Library of Congress.

Library of Congress Subject Headings. 2002. 25 th ed. Washington, DC: Cataloging Distribution Service, Library of Congress.

MARC 21 Concise Format for Bibliographic Data. URL = http://lcweb.loc.gov/marc/bibliographic/

Online Computer Library Center. Bibliographic formats and standards. Dublin, OH: OCLC, 1993-. URL = http://www.oclc.org/oclc/bib/toc.htm

Tools for Cataloging Internet Resources. URL = http://www.bowdoin.edu/~kfattig/netsl/index.html

Chan, Lois Mai. 1993. Cataloging and classification: An introduction. New York: McGraw-Hill.

Fritz, Deborah A. 1998. Cataloging with AACR2R and USMARC: For books, computer files, serials, sound recordings, videorecordings. Chicago: American Library Association.

Maxwell, R.L with M. F. Maxwell. 1997. Maxwell's handbook for AACR2R. Chicago: American Library Association.

Millsap, Larry and Terry Ellen Ferl. 1997. Descriptive cataloging for the AACR2R and the integrated MARC format: A how-to-do-it workbook. Rev. ed. New York: Simon & Schuster.

Olson, Nancy B. 1998. Cataloging of audiovisual materials and other special materials: A manual based on AACR 2. 4th ed., edited by Sheila S. Intner and Edward Swanson. DeKalb, Ill.: Minnesota Scholarly Press.

Saye, Jerry D. 2000. Manheimer's cataloging and classification. 4th. ed., rev. and expanded. New York: Marcel Dekker.

Scott, Mona L. with the assistance of Christine E. Alvey. 1993. Conversion tables : LC-Dewey, Dewey-LC. Englewood, CO: Libraries Unlimited.

Studwell, William E., and David V. Loertscher. 1989. Cataloging books: A workbook of examples. Englewood, Colo.: Libraries Unlimited.

Eden, Brad. 2002. Metadata and Its Applications. Published as Library Technology Reports, Sept/Oct. 2002.

Electronic Cataloging: AACR2 and Metadata for Serials and Monographs. 2003. Edited by Sheila S. Intner, Sally C. Tseng, and Mary Lynette Larsggard. A special issue of Cataloging & Classification Quarterly (Vol. 36, nos. 3/4).

Hudgins, Jean, Grace Agnew, & Elizabeth Brown. 1999. Getting mileage out of metadata: Applications for the library. Chicago: American Library Association.

IFLA. Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records. Final Report. 1998. URL =
http://www.ifla.org/VII/s13/frbr/frbr.pdf

ISBD (ER): International standard bibliographic description for electronic resources. 1997. Munchen: K.G. Sauer. URL = http://www.ifla.org/VII/s13/pubs/isbd.htm

Organizing Internet resources: Metadata and the Web. 1997. Edited by Efthimis N. Efthimiadis and Allyson Carlyle. Bulletin of the American Society for Information Science 24, no. 1.  Entire issue.

The Principles and future of AACR: Proceedings of the International Conference on the Principles and Future Development of AACR, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, October 23-25, 1997.  1998. Ottawa: Canadian Library Association; Chicago: American Library Association.

Rosenfeld, L., & Morville, P. 2002. 2nd ed. Information architecture for the World Wide Web. Sebastopol, CA: O'Reilly.

Taylor, Arlene G. 2003. 2nd ed. The Organization of information. Englewood, Colo.: Libraries Unlimited.