P070 Topics in Library and Information Sciences

Faculty of Informatics
Autumn 1999
Extent and Intensity
2/0. 2 credit(s) (plus extra credits for completion). Recommended Type of Completion: zk (examination). Other types of completion: k (colloquium), z (credit).
Teacher(s)
RNDr. Miroslav Bartošek, CSc. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
prof. PhDr. Karel Pala, CSc.
Department of Machine Learning and Data Processing – Faculty of Informatics
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
Further Comments
The course is taught annually.
The course is taught: every week.
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 1997, Autumn 1997, Autumn 1998, Autumn 2000, Autumn 2001.
  • Enrolment Statistics (Autumn 1999, recent)
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