Knowledge organization landscape: A content analysis of introductory courses

Authors:
M. Cristina Pattuelli
Affiliations:
School of Information and Library Science, Pratt Institute,New York, NY, USA
Venue:
Journal of Information Science
Year:
2010

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Abstract

This paper presents the results of a study examining the subject content of knowledge organization courses taught in ALA-accredited Library and Information Science (LIS) programmes. Close to 2000 course readings of introductory-level knowledge organization courses from 34 LIS schools in the USA and Canada were analysed and indexed. Results indicate that traditional bibliographic methods and practices remain at the core of knowledge organization courses. Findings also show that metadata has become a central component of course content and new topics from information architecture to markup languages and semantic web are becoming part of introductory-level knowledge organization education.