Re: sac-class: LCC course outline

[Steven Arakawa <steven.arakawa@yale.edu>]

Alternate suggestion,  principle would be to go from the most general to 
the most specific.

1. Purpose of classification (as with the Jones presentation)
2. Brief history of LC classification.
3. Current tools.
4. Principles (F10).
5. Organization. Include discipline subarrangement, collected works, 
general special, biography here?
6. Notation.
7. Assigning numbers. (9-11. seem to be the most specific & should be last, 
but a case could be made for placing the pragmatic aspects of assigning 
numbers after Basic cuttering)
8. Basic cuttering.
9. Special cuttering.
10. Tables.
11. Serials.

Steven


At 11:39 AM 4/7/2005, Bruce Trumble wrote:
> Hello all,
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> Here is a list of possible topics for the course:
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> 1. Brief history
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> 2. Organization of the schedules
>         Structure of LCSH
>         Classification Web
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> 3. Tools
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> 4. Notation
>         Call number = Class number = Item number
>         Additions to call numbers (dates, work letters, etc.)
>         Formatting of call numbers in MARC format
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> 5. Basic cuttering
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> 6. Cuttering--special situations
>         Corporate bodies
>         Conferiences
>         Societies
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> 7. General principles of classification (Subject Cataloging Manual: 
> Classification F 10)
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> 8. Assigning numbers
>         Where (e.g., most specific number, locate with related materials, 
> etc.)
>         Should correspond to first subject heading
>         How to find number (Classification web correlations, consult 
> other records, 053s, go directly to        schedules)
>         Works on a single topic
>         Works on multiple topics
>         Works treating relationships between/among topics
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> 9. Tables
>         Tables of general application
>                 Translation table
>                 Geographic cutters (G300 and G302)
>                 Biography table
>         Tables within schedules
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> 10. Serials
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> 11. Overviews of certain individual schedules ???
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> At 01:47 PM 4/4/2005, you wrote:
> > Hi all -
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> > We need to move ahead on developing an outline for the LCC course.  Let's 
> > take the next couple of weeks to share ideas on this.  By April 15, I'd 
> > like to have enough input that we can shape a draft outline and start 
> > developing some of the course content.
> >
> > Here are a few resources to help get you thinking:
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> > Minutes from our Midwinter meeting are available at: 
> > http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~lrobare/sac-class.
> >
> > Rebecca Uhl contacted Angela Jones (a trainer for the LCSH course), who 
> > has developed a workshop on LC classification for in-house training, and 
> > later for Amigos, based on the book "Learn Library of Congress 
> > Classification" by Helena Dittmann and Jane Hardy (Scarecrow 
> > 2002).  (Amigos provided copies of the book to workshop participants to 
> > avoid any copyright issues.)  Angela has graciously agreed to share her 
> > materials with us so we can see what topics she covers and how she 
> > organizes the materials.  These are PowerPoint files.  I'll send them to 
> > your individual email addresses rather than distribute over the list.
> >
> > At our Midwinter meeting, I passed out copies of the table of contents 
> > for Lois' book, A Guide to the Library of Congress Classification, 5th ed.
> >
> > Also distributed at Midwinter: the course outline for the ALCTS/PCC 
> > workshop on LCSH (in the Introduction for Instructors).  Though this is 
> > not about LCC, it may be useful as an example of how topics were 
> > organized for the course.
> >
> > Other recent books on LC classification which may spark ideas include:
> >   Learn Library of Congress Classification, by Helena Dittmann and Jane 
> > Hardy, Scarecrow 2002 (noted above).
> >   Essential Classification, by Vanda Broughton, Neal-Schuman, 2004 (not 
> > limited to LCC, but has relevant chapters)
> >
> > Also, please send to the list any outlines for training you've done on LC 
> > classification that may be useful to the group.
> >
> > By the end of this week (April 8), please give some thought to the 
> > general organization of the workshop -- the broad topics that should be 
> > included and how they might be organized -- and share your ideas with the list.
> >
> > -- Lori
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