Learning outcomes

• describe the process and purposes of the human indexing employed in conventional information retrieval systems;
• compare the nature and role of human and automatic indexing;
• describe the complementary contributions of alphabetical and classified methods in producing information retrieval systems to meet a variety of users' needs
• demonstrate the complementary natures of the common alphabetical and classified information retrieval tools
• create and modify bibliographic records using Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules, Machine Readable Cataloguing, and Dewey Decimal Classification
• explain the importance of data standards and the international bibliographic record exchange system in the construction of successful and cost effective catalogues and other information retrieval products

Brief description

• Information retrieval operations, models and theories;
• Principles of indexing and index languages;
• Form and function of classification schemes and their construction;
• Catalogues and cataloguing;
• Standards for information interchange

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