Re: sac-class: LCC task force minutes and revised outline

[Lori Robare <lrobare@darkwing.uoregon.edu>]

A few thoughts about the outline, to get the discussion
going again.  These are just my thoughts, so please chime in with
your reactions.

I have been thinking that the "Basic notation and basic
cuttering" would include enough to prepare attendees for doing some
simple exercises in completing a call number -- applying the Cutter table
and a date of publication.  Then in the next section,
"Principles of classification and assigning class numbers", I
pictured exercises in which they use the schedules and Cutter table to
identify a class number and construct a call number, including dates, but
still keeping it pretty basic at first.  

Clearly we do need to address more complex practices somewhere, and it
isn't really spelled out in the outline.  I figured that some more
complex practices would be explained in the "Principles... and
Assigning" section.  I would probably introduce the concept of
double Cutters in the "Basic Notation..." section, but really
just introduce it as a concept and not go into detail.  Then it
would be explained in more depth, with application, in the
"Principles.. and Assigning" section.  If we address the
use of tables in this section, we will need to get into double
Cutters.

Some of the more complex cuttering and shelflisting practices would be
addressed in the "Special types of material" section, but there
may be a need for something more before that -- a section that covers
more advanced general practices, such as A-Z Cutter numbers, successive
Cutter numbers, really any general practices that haven't yet been
covered.

Regarding collocation and differentiation, it makes sense to me to
include these in the "Purpose of classification" section early
on, and then refer to them as appropriate in the rest of the
workshop.

I think a lot of this will be clearer as we have more draft material to
work with and can evaluate the best sequence of topics in a less abstract
way... it is a bit challenging at the start. 

-- Lori

At 02:12 PM 7/15/2005, you wrote:
> I think the outline will work,
> but I would like some clarification/detail on what will be covered under
> the module Basic notation and basic cuttering. This would include the
> class number, decimal expansion,  LC cutter table, book numbers,
> dates, work letters? Do we introduce collocation here? Or is this just a
> formal analysis,  something like "deconstructing the LC call
> number," with the function of some of the elements
> (collocation/differentiation) postponed until shelflisting toward the
> end?  But the special types of material module may not make sense
> unless collocation has been introduced earlier. Would collocation be
> introduced in the Purpose of Classification module instead?
>
> Also,  is double cuttering covered in Principles?
>
> Minutes looked OK to me.
>
> Steven
>
> At 07:34 PM 7/10/2005, you wrote:
> > Hi everyone,
> >
> > I have written up draft minutes from our meeting in Chicago and also
> > revised the draft course outline based on our discussions.  Both
> > documents are available on our web page:
> >
> > http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~lrobare/classification.html
> >
> > Please take a look at the draft minutes and let me know if you have any
> > corrections.  Look over the revised outline as well and see if that
> > reflects the changes we discussed in our meeting.  Once we are OK
> > with the shape of the outline, I'll ask for your preferred sections to
> > work on.
> >
> > -- Lori
>
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