LIBR 202-18
Information Retrieval
Spring 2008 Greensheet
Patricia C. Franks, Ph.D., CRM
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Cell Phone: (607)341-5713
Fax: (757) 226-4167
Office location: Online through Elluminate
Office hours: Virtual office hours are scheduled for Monday night from 7:15–8:15 p.m. Pacific time (8:15-9:15 p.m. Mountain, 9:15-10:15 p.m. Central, and 10:15-11:15 p.m. Eastern Standard). We'll be using Elluminate, which requires the use of a microphone attached to your computer.
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Textbooks and Readings | Course Requirements
The semester runs from January 23-May 13. The content for the course is managed through Blackboard. Students must self-enroll for this course on Blackboard between January 21 and January 27, 2008. You will be required to use a password access code. The code will be provided to you via the MySJSU Messaging system by January 21.
Course Description
Principles of information retrieval and their application to information systems and services. Emphasizing models of user information seeking behavior, human information processing and their relationship to retrieval models in information systems.
Course Prerequisites: Demonstrated computer literacy
Course Objectives
Student Learning Outcomes
- Students will be able to design, query, and evaluate a database information retrieval system, using an appropriate user model
- Students will be able to articulate fundamental concepts of information-seeking behavior and employ them in the design and evaluation of systems
- Students will be able to define a set of terms reflecting fundamental concepts of information retrieval and use them in discussions of their projects for the class.
- Students will understand metadata, both structure and representation, and be aware of dominant models such as the MARC record, LC Classification, Dublin Core, and NISO 39-19.
- Students will understand principles of good interface design and be able to evaluate interfaces using those principles.
LIBR 202 supports the following SLIS Core Competencies
- Design, query and evaluate information retrieval systems
- Understand the system of standards and methods used to control and create information structures and apply basic principles involved in the organization and representation of knowledge
- Describe the fundamental concepts of information-seeking behavior
In addition, this section supports the following SLIS Core Competencies:
- Use the basic concepts and principles related to the creation, evaluation, selection, acquisition, preservation, and organization of specific items or collections of information
- demonstrate proficiency in the use of current information and communication technologies, and other related technologies, as they affect the resources and uses of libraries and other types of information providing entities
http://slisweb.sjsu.edu/slis/competencies.htm
Textbooks and Readings
Please order the two textbooks from any online bookstore or directly from the publishers in time to have them by at least the second week of class. Go to SLIS eBookstore.
- Meadow, Charles T., Boyce, Bert R., Kraft, Donald H., Barry, Carol (2007). Text Information Retrieval Systems, 3rd ed. New York: Academic Press.
- Morville, Peter, Rosenfeld, L. (2006). Information Architecture for the World Wide Web. 3rd ed. Sebastopol, CA: O'Reilly Media Inc.
- “Supplemental Readings” on electronic reserve
Course Requirements
Complete the New Student Technology Course
This is a mandatory short, self-paced online course on Blackboard that must be completed by all new SLIS students before the first day of classes. The access code for this course will be sent to new students via MySJSU. If you have questions about this course, e-mail Debbie Faires or Dale David.
For more information, see http://slisweb.sjsu.edu/slis/blackboardintro.htm
Assignments
The assignments are designed to provide you the opportunity to acquire and demonstrate the following skills:
- Create a user model, and based on the needs identified, design descriptive and subject metadata for a collection.
- Create a controlled vocabulary that adheres to a set of standards such as NISO Z39.19
- Search the database.
- Set performance criteria and, based on searches, evaluate the database.
- Evaluate one or more information retrieval interfaces.
- Describe fundamental concepts of information seeking behavior.
- Use information retrieval concepts in discussions.
| IR system design exercises | |
| Attribute elicitation exercise | required but not graded (pre-1,7) |
| Classification exercise | required but not graded (pre-1,7) |
| Vocabulary design exercise | required but not graded (pre-2,7) |
| Assignment #1 Descriptive metadata |
350 points (1,pre-2,7) |
| Assignment #2 Vocabulary design & evaluation |
350 points (1,2,3,4,7) |
| Midterm |
150 points (1,2,7) |
| Final |
150 points (1,4,5,6,7) |
| Total Points | 1,000 |
Grading Scale
The standard SJSU SLIS Grading Scale is utilized for all SLIS courses:
| 97-100 | A |
| 94-96 | A- |
| 91-93 | B+ |
| 88-90 | B |
| 85-87 | B- |
| 82-84 | C+ |
| 79-81 | C |
| 76-78 | C- |
| 73-75 | D+ |
| 70-72 | D |
| 67-69 | D- |
| Below 67 | F |
In order to provide consistent guidelines for assessment for graduate level work in the School, these terms are applied to letter grades:
- C represents Adequate work; a grade of "C" counts for credit for the course;
- B represents Good work; a grade of "B" clearly meets the standards for graduate level work;
- A represents Exceptional work; a grade of "A" will be assigned for outstanding work only.
Students are advised that it is their responsibility to maintain a Grade Point Average (GPA) of 3.0.
Academic Integrity
Your own commitment to learning, as evidenced by your enrollment at San José State University, and the University's Academic Integrity Policy requires you to be honest in all your academic course work. Faculty members are required to report all infractions to the Office of Student Conduct and Ethical Development. The policy on academic integrity can be found at http://sa.sjsu.edu/student_conduct.
Reasonable Accommodation of Disabilities
If you need course adaptations or accommodations because of a disability,
please e-mail me as soon as possible. Presidential Directive 97-03 requires
that students with disabilities register with the Disability Resource Center
(DRC) to establish record of their disability.
No matter where students reside, they should contact the SJSU DRC to register. The DRC Web site: http://www.drc.sjsu.edu/
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