LIBR 202-10
Information Retrieval
Spring 2006 Greensheet
Dr. Judy Weedman
E-mail
Phone: (714) 278-2295
Fax: (714) 278-5841
Mailing Address:
San Jose State University - SLIS
800 No. State College
P.O.Box 4150
Fullerton, California 92834-4150
Office Hours:
Chatroom/Telephone/Face-to-face M, Tu 1:30-3:00 and by appointment.
| Course Links Greensheet Schedule Handout #1 (PDF) Handout #2 Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 Part 5 Part 6 Handout #3 Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 Part 5 |
Resources Blackboard Blackboard Tutorials |
LIBR 202 Resources Online Resource Supplemental Readings Inmagic Download |
Textbooks and Readings | Course Requirements
Please enroll in the Blackboard class by Monday, January 30th; you will be sent an access code via MySJSU.
Course Description
This course is a survey of the principles of information retrieval and their application to information systems and services. The course emphasizes models of user information seeking behavior and human information processing, and their relationships to retrieval models in information systems. It explores the fundamental processes of description, classification, information structures, database models, and intermediation as those processes are reflected in information systems of all types, including, libraries. In addition, the course explores various information systems to illustrate principles.
Goals and Objectives:
To introduce the student to:
- Basic concepts of information systems;
- User information seeking processes;
- Those user characteristics that affect information seeking and use.
At the completion of the course the student should be able to:
- Describe appropriate models of information seeking processes and factors influencing them
- Describe the salient characteristics of an information system, using the model introduced and developed in the course
- Describe how the characteristics of information systems and users interact in the effective use of information.
This course supports the following SLIS objectives:
- To teach students the major theories, important principles, and current practice in:
- Information management, including the selection, organization, storage, retrieval, dissemination, and utilization of information resources
- The application of diverse technologies to information management.
- To foster research by:
- Requiring students to evaluate and utilize relevant research studies from a variety of disciplines in their coursework.
Textbooks and Readings
Required Textbooks
Please order the two textbooks from any online bookstore or directly from the publishers.
- Meadow, Charles T., Boyce, Bert R., and Kraft, Donald H. (2000) Text Information Retrieval Systems, 2nd ed. San Diego: Academic Press.
- Marchionini, Gary (1995). Information Seeking in Electronic Environments. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Supplemental Readings
15 of the Supplemental Readings on electronic reserve (linked to greensheet).
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 orientation. The access code for this course will be sent to new students via MySJSU by June 27. 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
Technology Components
To be successful in this course, you need to be able to send and receive e-mail and attachments, access the School’s Web site for course handouts and readings, download software from a Web site and install it on your computer, use common Web search engines, and learn a new database management system. You may be required to send and receive e-mail attachments of a moderately large size (1MB - 8MB). If your current e-mail service provider places restrictions on the size of attachments that you can send or receive, then you will need to obtain an e-mail account without such restrictions. All students are eligible for free accounts on the SLIS e-mail server (slis.sjsu.edu), and there are no attachment or storage restrictions for those accounts.
Blackboard
Blackboard will be used for distribution of course materials. Please enroll in the Blackboard class by Monday, January 30th; you will be sent an access code via MySJSU.
Assignments
The assignments for this course are:
| IR system design exercises | |
| Attribute elicitation exercise | required but not graded |
| Classification exercise | required but not graded |
| Assignment #1 | 350 points |
| Assignment #2 |
350 points |
| Midterm |
150 points |
| Final |
150 points |
| Total Points | 1,000 |
Grading
The grade of B reflects high quality work commensurate with expectations for graduate students. Please note that the class GPA for LIBR 202 usually runs between 91% and 93% (a B+). The following grading scale will be used:
| 97-100% | A |
| 94-96% | A- |
| 91-93% | B+ |
| 88-90% | B |
| 85-87% | B- |
| 82-84% | C+ |
| 80-81% | C |
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 are required to report all infractions to the Office of Judicial Affairs. The policy on academic integrity can be found at http://www2.sjsu.edu/senate/S04-12.pdf
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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