LIS 221 AND 222: BASIC CLASSIFICATION

NAMES OF LECTURERS: JUSTICE CHINONSO UJOUMUNNA & PROFESSOR AMANZE O. UNAGHA

CODE TITTLE: BASIC CLASSIFICATION 1&2

PREAMBLE

the ultimate aim of any library and information center is to satisfy the information needs of it users. Thus, all the services provided in any library and information centers are user-oriented. To fulfill the needs of the users, library and information centers acquire all kinds of resources including book and non-book materials. These resources have to be properly organized so that they can be accessible to users who have a variety of and varying interests,  and need relevant information to fulfill these interests. To make relevant information available to users, libraries and information centers have devised a number of retrieval tools. The above background is what this course, Basic Classification (knowledge organizations and information retrieval)  is meant to be taught to students of Library and Information Science, regards to document description, cataloguing, classification, indexing, and abstracting activities in information centers.

COURSE CONTENTS
Concept of cataloguing
Issues in cataloguing
Rules for cataloguing
Rules regarding capitalization in cataloguing
Cataloguing of monographs
Cataloguing of serials and special materials

PART TWO
Concept of library classification
Division and synthesis of classification
Notation in classification
Dewey Decimal Classification Scheme
Library of Congress Classification Scheme
Concepts in the division of the universe of knowledge
Works in three planes
Indexing
Abstracting
Document indexing and term association
Indexing theories/ theorists
Information retrieval systems