This list looks complete.
Where in this outline would we discuss
alternative class numbers?
Might number 10 be given the heading
“special types of materials” and include some general discussion on
biographies, monographic series classed together vs. classed separately, and
music recordings as well as serials?
I don’t believe we settled the
question of whether this would be a one day course with possible added modules,
but I do feel items 1-10 make a solid basic course or day one of a multiple day
course.
Scott
Scott A. Opasik
Associate Librarian
Schurz Library
Indiana University South Bend
sopasik@iusb.edu
574.237.4446
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From:
owner-sac-class@lists.uoregon.edu [mailto:owner-sac-class@lists.uoregon.edu] On Behalf Of Bruce Trumble
Sent: Thursday, April 07, 2005
10:40 AM
To: sac-class@lists.uoregon.edu
Subject: Re: sac-class: LCC course
outline
Hello all,
Here is a list of possible topics for the course:
1. Brief history
2. Organization of the schedules
Structure of LCSH
Classification
Web
3. Tools
4. Notation
Call number =
Class number = Item number
Additions to
call numbers (dates, work letters, etc.)
Formatting of
call numbers in MARC format
5. Basic cuttering
6. Cuttering--special situations
Corporate bodies
Conferiences
Societies
7. General principles of classification (Subject Cataloging Manual:
Classification F 10)
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
9. Tables
Tables of
general application
Translation
table
Geographic
cutters (G300 and G302)
Biography
table
Tables within
schedules
10. Serials
11. Overviews of certain individual schedules ???
Bruce
At 01:47 PM 4/4/2005, you wrote:
Hi all -
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:
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