FI:P070 Topics in Library and Informat

P070 Topics in Library and Information Sciences

Faculty of Informatics
Spring 1997

Extent and Intensity

2/0. 2 credit(s). Recommended Type of Completion: zk (examination). Other types of completion: k (colloquium), z (credit).

Teacher(s)

RNDr. Miroslav Bartošek, CSc. (lecturer)

Guaranteed by

Contact Person: RNDr. Miroslav Bartošek, CSc.

Course Enrolment Limitations

The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.

fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with

Syllabus

The course is aimed at providing students of Computer Science with the basic knowledge of computer technologies and principles used in Library and Information Science's theory and practice. Not only classical library topics (cataloguing principles, for example) are to be presented; analogies and differencies between information storage, description and retrieval in a library and on the Internet will be examined too.
Information storage and retrieval -- current state and important issues.
Automation of Library Processes (with respect to situation in the Czech Republic). Library standards.
Role and importance of bibliographic description and bibliographic formats (UNIMARC, Sigle, Dublin Core, Dienst).
Introduction to descriptive and bibliographical cataloguing -- purposes, principles, potentialities of automation. Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules (AACR2), ISBD standards.
Introduction to Subject Access. Classification schemas: UDC (Universal Decimal Classification), DDC (Dewey Decimal Classification). Library of Congress subject headings. Indexing and thesaurus construction.
Standards, protocols and languages for information retrieval (CCL, Z39.50). Digital library projects.
On-line services. Database centers DIALOG and DATASTAR. Cataloguing of electronic documents.

Language of instruction

Czech

The course is also listed under the following terms Autumn 1997, Autumn 1998, Autumn 1999, Autumn 2000, Autumn 2001.