00.5270+Calendar


 * Course Calendar: Assignments are due on MONDAY, 11:59 PM, UNLESS OTHERWISE NOTED. Skype sessions are at 7:00 and 8:30 pm on Monday. **
 * Date || Activity || Assignment Due ||
 * Week 1 - 8/19-25 || Become familiar with software to be used for biography; Read curation articles || Post biography to Bb and comment; Respond to the Doodle; prepare for Skype ||
 * Week 2 – 8/26-9/2 || Read articles about LiveBinders and become familiar with the software || LiveBinders Project ||
 * Week 3 – 9/2-8 || Work collaboratively on evaluating software || Prepare 15-minute presentation over Skype ||
 * Week 4 – 9/9-15 || Read articles about LibGuides || LibGuides project ||
 * Week 5 – 9/16-22 || Read text, chs. 1, 2, and 7 || Practice : MARC fields ||
 * Week 6 – 9/23-29 || Read ch. 3, files; Rubric-Common Errors and Copy Cataloging Sources and RDA articles || Skype : AACR2 and RDA ||
 * Week 7 – 9/30-10/6 || Re-Read ch. 3 and peruse Follett’s Tag of the Month || Practice : Exercises 3A, 3B, 3C, 3D. ||
 * Week 8 – 10/7-13 || Access Points Practice – Read text, ch. 4; become familiar with a system for inputting MARC records || Practice: Exercises 4A, 4B, 4C, and 4D ||
 * Week 9 – 10/14-20 || Main Entry project – 5 books to catalog || Project: catalog 5 books ||
 * Week 10 – 10/21-27 || Read text. ch. 5; Subject headings practice || Practice assigning subject headings 5A, 5B, 5C, 5D, 5E, and 5F. Post any questions to Bb. ||
 * Week 11 – 10/28-11/3 || Review ch. 5; read articles by LeGrow and Tarulli || Project: subject headings – 6 titles to be cataloged ||
 * Week 12 – 11/4-10 || Classification practice – Read text, ch. 6 plus articles listed on the assignment || Practice 6G; plus three additional exercises and reflection ||
 * Week 13 – 11/11-17 || Review documents to teach how to enhance MARC records || Project of cataloging material with enhancement fields ||
 * 11/25-28 FALL BREAK ||
 * Week 14 – 11/18-12/1 || Read RDA materials and prepare for Skype Session || Skype : RDA ||
 * Week 15 – 12/2-8 || Apply process of identifying RDA records to records that have been created with AACR2 || Project: application of RDA to 10 records ||
 * The bibliography for each week’s readings will be found in the weekly assignments on Blackboard. **