An introduction to concepts of knowledge records and the artifacts that convey them.

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1 LIS 719 Comparative Bibliography: An Introduction to the Study of the Artifacts of Recorded Knowledge Draft Syllabus 14 June 2012 COURSE DESCRIPTION An introduction to concepts of knowledge records and the artifacts that convey them. This means we will go beyond the idea of texts as information objects, and begin to look at them as cultural artifacts as well as artifacts that record knowledge. The recording of knowledge has social roles--we'll be considering those roles. A survey of the techniques of enumerative, descriptive, and analytical bibliography, and bibliometric analysis. Using the four comparative techniques, students will engage in the comparative study of knowledge records. Working in individually selected topical areas, students will compile an enumerative bibliography, learning exhaustive and selective techniques. Students will describe and analytically compare descriptions of one work. Students will use bibliometric techniques for domain analysis. Students will present work in seminar fashion. Students will need a topical area that is relatively rich with classic texts and journal articles, but beyond that it is best to select an area that can have well-defined boundaries. HOW TO THINK ABOUT SELECTING A DOMAIN (A TOPICAL AREA) FOR THIS COURSE You will need a topical area that is relatively rich with classic texts and journal articles, but beyond that it is best to select an area that can have well-defined boundaries. Something like "opera" is much too broad, yet something like "works as bibliographic entities" would be too narrow. A good thing to do would be to go hunting in the library catalog and in OCLC, and in online journal databases to see what you can find. If you find thousands of citations you need to narrow the topic more; if you find only 20 or so your topic is too narrow. COURSE REQUIREMENTS CLASS PARTICIPATION: Class participation will be based on your regular attendance at class meetings and substantive contributions to class discussions. Note, participation may be on-site, online, or blended. EVALUATION: Assignments 60% Class Participation 40% Total 100% COURSE OBJECTIVES Develop skills for collection development (selection, bibliographic analysis).

2 Develop facility at enumerative bibliography. Gain skills for bibliographic research. Gain understanding for work in bibliographic control. TEXTS REQUIRED FOR THIS COURSE There will be other readings, of course; but these are the essential tomes, and the hardest to find. Listed here in the order in which we will use them. Physical copies of all but the Smiraglia-Young bibliography are on reserve in the library; that volume is in reference in the Music Library. Tanselle, G. Thomas A rationale of textual criticism. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. (A small book, delightful for anyone who loves books. You have to read it for this course. A 1992 paperback is available; all editions have the same content and their other differences make them interesting for this course.) Krummel, D.W Bibliographies : their aims and methods. London: Mansell. (This book is essential but OUT OF PRINT (if you want to be a bibliographer you need to own this book, however you manage to get hold of a copy; for this course you will need to read it.) Smiraglia, Richard P Bibliographic control of music: a retrospective bibliography , comp. and ed. with J. Bradford Young. Lanham, Md.: Scarecrow Press for the Music Library Assn. (This is an example for you, of a kind of bibliography that does not yield a reference book. I'll want you to read the introduction, and examine the contents. You don't need to own it unless you really want to.) Gaskell, Philip A new introduction to bibliography. Winchester, UK: St. Paul s Bibliographies; New Castle, Del.: Oak Knoll Press; New York: Distributed in the USA by Lyons & Burford. (If you want to be a bibliographer, you need to own this; if you want to do well in this course, you need to read it.) Smiraglia, Richard P The nature of a work: Implications for the organization of knowledge. Lanham, Md.: Scarecrow. (Necessary to read for this course.) White, Howard D Brief tests of collection strength: a methodology for all types of libraries. Contributions in librarianship and information science, No 88. Greenwood Press. (If you plan to work in collection development, this is important. For our course, you will need only to read the book.) MONOGRAPHS ON RESERVE AT GOLDA MEIR LIBRARY:

3 Bradford, S.C. Documentation. Washington, D.C.: Public Affairs Press, Di Bellis, Nicola Bibliometrics and citation analysis: from the Science Citation Index to Cybermetrics. Lanham, Md.: Scarecrow. Gaskell, Philip A new introduction to bibliography. Winchester, UK: St. Paul s Bibliographies; New Castle, Del.: Oak Knoll Press; New York: Distributed in the USA by Lyons & Burford. Johns, A The nature of the book: Print and knowledge in the making. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Krummel, D.W Bibliographies : their aims and methods. London: Mansell. Mundaneum: archives of knowlege trans. and adapted by W. Boyd Rayward. Occasional papers no Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Smiraglia, Richard P The nature of a work: Implications for the organization of knowledge. Lanham, Md.: Scarecrow. Tanselle, G. Thomas A rationale of textual criticism. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. White, Howard D Brief tests of collection strength: a methodology for all types of libraries. Contributions in librarianship and information science, No 88. Greenwood Press. White, Howard D., Bates, Marcia, and Wilson, Patrick For information specialists: interpretations of references and bibliographic work. Information management, policy, and services. Norwood, N.J.: Ablex. ARTICLES on e-reserve: Anderson, Glenn A. The Emergence of the Book. College and Research Libraries (1988): Foucault, Michel What is an author? In Foucault reader ed. P. Rabinow. Harmondsworth: Penguin, pp Krummel, D.W Historical bibliography and library history. Libraries & culture 35: Krummel, D.W The dialectics of enumerative bibliography. Library quarterly 58: Lotka, Alfred J The frequency distribution of scientific productivity. Journal of the Washington Academy of Sciences 16n12: Smiraglia, Richard P A meta-analysis of instantiation as a phenomenon of information objects. Culturo del testo e del documento 9 no. 25: Tanselle, G. Thomas Bibliographers and the library. Library trends 25n4:

4 Tanselle, G. Thomas Bibliographical history as a field of study. Studies in bibliography 41: Topulos, Katherine A common lawyer's bookshelf recreated. Law library journal 84: White, Howard D External memory. In White, Howard ed. For information specialists, Westport, Conn.: Greenwood, pp Wilson, Patrick Pragmatic bibliography. In White, Howard ed. For information specialists, Westport, Conn.: Greenwood, pp ARTICLES AVAILABLE IN FULL TEXT ONLINE: Buckridge, Patrick Generations of books: a Tasmanian family library, Library quarterly 76: Knievel, Jennifer E. and Kellsey, Charlene Citation analysis for collection development: a comparative study of eight humanities fields. Library quarterly 75: McCain, Katherine W Mapping authors in intellectual space: a technical overview. Journal of the American Society for Information Science 41: Smiraglia, Richard P Redefining the "S" in ISMIR: visualizing the evolution of a domain. In Rothbauer, Paulette, Stevenson, Siobhan, and Wathen, Nadine, eds. Mapping the 21st century information landscape: borders, bridges, and byways; Proceedings of the 37th Annual CAIS/ACSI Conference, May 28-30, 2009, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. Smiraglia, Richard. P ISKO 10's Bookshelf: an editorial. Knowledge organization 35: Smiraglia, Richard P. 2007a. Two kinds of power: insight into the legacy of Patrick Wilson. In Dalkir, Kimiz and Arsenault, Clément eds. Information sharing in a fragmented world: crossing boundaries: Proceedings of the Canadian Association for Information Science annual conference May 12-15, Smiraglia, Richard P. 2007b. The "works" phenomenon and best selling books. Cataloging & classification quarterly 44(3/4): Smiraglia, Richard P Music information retrieval, an example of Bates' "substrate"? In Moukdad, Haidar ed. Information science revisited: approaches to innovation; Proceedings of the Canadian Association for Information Science Annual Conference, June 1-3, 2006, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Smiraglia, Richard P Toward a theory of instantiation. In Vaughan, Liwen ed. Data, information, and knowledge in a networked world: Proceedings of the Canadian Association for Information Science annual conference June

5 COURSE SCHEDULE Date Topic Readings September 6 I. Introduction to Knowledge Artifacts, Bibliographical Form. II. Introduction to Bibliography. Tanselle Rationale September 27 III. Enumerative Bibliography-- Style, Exhaustive, Selective. Tanselle "Bibliographers" Krummel "Dialectics" Krummel BAM October 28 November 15 December 6 IV.The Book, The Author, The Work V. Historical Bibliography-- Descriptive, Analytical VI. Bibliographic Families. Bibliographic Relationships. Instantiation VII. Bibliometric Analysis VIII. Author co-citation analysis; co-word analysis. IX. Collection Development, Selection, and Analysis X. Summary of Comparative Method Johns, The nature of the book Anderson "Emergence" Foucault, What is an author? Krummel "Historical bibliography" Tanselle "Bibliographical history" Gaskell New introduction Buckridge "Generations" Topulos "Bookshelf" Smiraglia, The nature of a work Smiraglia "The works phenomenon..." Smiraglia "Toward... Instantiation" Smiraglia Instantiation Metaanalysis Lotka "Frequency" Bradford Documentation McCain "Mapping" Smiraglia, "ISKO 10's bookshelf" Smiraglia "Two Kinds of Power" Smiraglia "Music information retrieval..." Smiraglia "Redefining the "S" in ISMIR..." Knievel and Kellsey "Citation analysis" White Brief tests White External memory Wilson "Pragmatic bibliography"