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Web Simmons Edu Joudrey 415 Syllabus HTM

LIS 415: Information Organization is a required course that explores the organization of information for users, covering topics such as resource types, metadata, and classification. Students will learn core concepts, apply professional standards, and develop technological skills related to information organization. The course includes lectures, lab sessions, discussions, and group projects, with a required textbook and a grading scale based on letter grades and percentages.

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Web Simmons Edu Joudrey 415 Syllabus HTM

LIS 415: Information Organization is a required course that explores the organization of information for users, covering topics such as resource types, metadata, and classification. Students will learn core concepts, apply professional standards, and develop technological skills related to information organization. The course includes lectures, lab sessions, discussions, and group projects, with a required textbook and a grading scale based on letter grades and percentages.

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LIS 415: Information Organization

Contact
Information Instructor: Professor Daniel N. Joudrey
Office: C-330K
Phone: (617) 521-2863
E-mail: joudrey@simmons.edu
Pronouns: he/him/his

Class times: Important Syllabus Links:


Thursday, 2-5pm and 6-9pm Course Rules
Course Calendar
Office Hours:
Via Zoom, by appointment Bibliography

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,
Course and the information life cycle. Required course.
Description Prerequisites: None

Audience (level, environment/setting): beginning; all settings

These program learning outcomes are assessed in the course:

1. Apply professional standards, tools, and best practices in the information field and
across specialized areas.
Relevant
Program 2. Communicate effectively across different audiences.

Learning 5. Demonstrate the technological skills required to help information professionals


Outcomes and organizations achieve their goals.

Students are also exposed to this program learning outcome in the course:

7. Be guided by professional ethics and values.

At the end of this course, students will be able to:

A. Understand the role of information organization in library and information


science (LIS).

B. Demonstrate knowledge of the core concepts and principles of information


organization.
Course C. Understand the relationship between information organization concepts and
Learning information discovery.
Outcomes D. Select appropriate approaches to organizing information in different types of
environments.

E. Recognize and use information organization standards and tools.

F. Use the vocabulary commonly associated with information organization.

G. Effectively interpret metadata records.

This course includes the following approaches to teaching and learning:

lectures (in various formats: live and recorded)


Course lab sessions and in-class exercises
readings
Structure discussions and discussion board postings
homework assignments

Assignments will be partnered and there will be at least one group project.

Textbook
Required: Daniel N. Joudrey and Arlene G. Taylor, The Organization of Information, 4th ed.
(Westport, Conn.: Libraries Unlimited, 2018).

ISBN: 978-1-59884-858-8 (Paperback)


ISBN: 978-1-59884-859-5 (Hardcover)

This title may be purchased from the Simmons University bookstore, Amazon, Libraries
Unlimited, and other online retailers. A Kindle version is available through Amazon.

Please note: There are multiple editions of this work. Please obtain the latest version
(2018).

For some assignments, letter grades will be used and for others you will receive grades based on
percentages.

Letter Grade Meaning Percentage Equivalents


A Excellent Performance 94 - 100 %
A- Very Good Performance 90 - 93 %
B+ Good Performance 87 - 89 %
Grading Scale B Satisfactory Performance 84 - 86 %
B- Marginal Performance 80 - 83 %
C+ 77 - 79 %
C 74 - 76 %
C- 70 - 73 %
Unsatisfactory Performance
D+ 67 - 69 %
D 64 - 66 %
D- 60 - 63 %
F Failing Performance Below 60 %

Unit 1: Introduction to Information Organization


Unit 2: Environments and their Tools
Unit 3: Introduction to Metadata
Course Unit 4: Encoding
Unit 5: Description
Outline Unit 6: Access & Authority Control
Unit 7: Aboutness & Subject Analysis
Unit 8: Vocabulary Control
Unit 9: Categorization, Classification, & Arrangement

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