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Course Meeting Times
TWTh 9:00-11:00 a.m.; SZB 468
Course Description
Introduction to general principles and features of organizing and providing access to information, including varieties and numbers of information-bearing objects, different traditions of practice, user concerns, metadata and metadata formats, document representation and description, subject access, and information system features and evaluation.
Professor: Irene Travis
| Email: | itravis@austin.rr.com |
| Phone: | (512) 471-2742 (School of Information Office) |
| Office: |
SZB 445 |
| Office Hours: |
Tuesday 8:15-8:45 a.m. or by appointment during the Summer Semester 2004 |
Teaching Assistant: Jennifer Shakespear
The main purpose of the course is to provide a foundation for understanding the basic issues involved in organizing and providing access control for "Information Entities" (IEs). More specifically, the course will help students:
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Understand general principles, features and functions of systems for organizing and providing access to IEs
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Understand the major likenesses and differences among such different traditions of practice in IE control and access as library cataloging, indexing and abstracting, archival enterprise, records management, museum management, bibliography, website organization, and some limited treatment of additional systems in the business environment that describe and organize IEs, such electronic document management systems.
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Establish a theoretical basis upon which to expand one's knowledge and expertise in the specific provisions and practices of one or more of those same traditions.
For more information, please refer to the course objectives, approaches, concepts, and questions, and the course grading policy.
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