Introduction to Organisation of Information
Study Cycle: 1
Lectures: 30
Seminars: 15
Tutorials: 15
ECTS credit: 6
Lecturer(s): doc. dr. Jug Tjaša, prof. dr. Šauperl Alenka
• Purpose of organisation of information.
• General principles of organisation of information in different settings, particularly in libraries.
• Purpose of cataloguing: description of information objects for retrieval, functions of library catalouges, bibliography.
• International cataloguing principles: Paris principles and later principles 2009 and 2017.
• Library Reference Model (LRM): basic principles, differences between an entity and its apellation.
• Definition of cataloguing, international standard bibliographic description ISBD, presentation of book cataloguing, influence of technology on cataloguing.
• Types and characteristics of library catalogues, bibliographies.
• Cataloguing approaches: central cataloguing, shared cataloguing, CIP.
• History of cataloguing and bibliography.
• National and international cataloguing rules.