CATALOGING AND CLASSIFICATION

LIS 655

Collection development designed to teach professional skills in selection and control of collections. Examines large societal forces affecting the ways librarians have traditionally built collections and contemporary changes in access and ownership.

LIS 654

Survey of concepts and skills necessary to perform in an information services organization. Service needs assessment, goal and objective setting, staffing, budgeting and evaluation.

LIS 632

An overview of the design and use of metadata for resource description and retrieval in digital environments. Learn to implement and evaluate standard schemes used in cultural heritage, commercial and other contexts including Dublin Core, MODS, VRA and others. Issues of information behavior, interoperability, quality control, vocabulary control and project management are covered.

LIS 602

Introduces basic concepts and principles of information organization and online searching. Gain knowledge of information organization and retrieval theories and methods and knowledge of large database structures and database searching techniques. Critically examine the impact of information organization practices on organizations and culture. Learn how to develop information organizing systems and to evaluate and improve search systems.

LIS 635

Theories, principles and practices of reference and information services.