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GREENSHEET
DESCRIPTION: Techniques of searching and managing on-line
search services. Includes searching strategies, evaluation of database
structures, implementation
and management of search services and on-line experience.
Prerequisite: LIBR 202
Topics include searching techniques and strategies, database structures,
use and evaluation of database services, economic factors, applications,
and management of online search services. In-depth instruction in
one search system is provided.
GOALS: To support the mission of the School in teaching
students the major theories, important principles, and current
practice in: Information transfer; Information management, including the
selection, organization, storage, retrieval, dissemination and utilization
of information resources.
- Goal A: The student becomes familiar with aspects of the online industry
and its role in making information available to society in various formats.
- Goal B: The student gains experience with the commercial and web databanks
and is able to transfer this knowledge to other systems.
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Goal C: The student gains familiarity with basic commands, and moves beyond
that to an understanding of the relationship between database structure and
search techniques, evaluation of databases and systems.
- Goal D: The student considers issues in the implementation and management of
online services.
SLIS Objective: Teaching students the major theories, important principles,
and current practice in: Information transfer; Information management,
including the selection, organization, storage, retrieval, dissemination
and utilization of information resources;
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TEXT: Walker, G. & Janes, J. (1999) Online Retrieval:
A Dialogue of Theory and Practice. 2nd Ed. Libraries Unlimited [Get
directly from publisher http://www.lu.com
]
COURSE REQUIREMENTS:
Exercises
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60 points |
Quizzes
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15 points |
Essay
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15 points |
| Participation in online discussion |
10 points |
ASSIGNMENTS:
A series of online exercises will be posted on Blackboard. You will
do the searches as instructed in each exercise. Be sure to save your
searches to disk. After you are finished with your search, bring it into
your word processing program and critique it. Your grade will primarily
be based on your critique. You need to comment on what you think you
did well and what mistakes you think you made (there is no penalty for
making mistakes but there may be for not recognizing your mistakes) and
suggest any improvements you would make in your search if you could do
it over—there is no need to do it again. Each exercise consists
of more than one problem, be sure to complete all that the exercise asks
you to do. For each Exercise, please email me a copy of your critiqued
search, I need to see each of your search statements and the response
you get from the computer but I do not need to see all of your results
(just enough of a sample to see what you are getting, usually 5-10 items).
Each Exercise is worth 10 points.
Exercise 1
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Due February 23 |
Exercise 2
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Due March 8 |
Exercise 3
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Due March 22 |
| Exercise 4 |
Due April 19 |
Exercise 5
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Due April 26 |
| Exercise 6 |
Due May 3 |
Quizzes
Two Quizzes: Quiz 1 will be posted March 18-19 only and must be completed
and returned to me at nancybur@swbell.net
by 11pm March 23. Quiz 2 will be posted April 1-2 only and must be completed
and returned to me at the address above by 11pm on April 12. If you have
a conflict with any of those dates, please let me know in a personal email
message and we will make arrangements for you. Please do not make either
quiz a group project, but you can use your notes/textbook.
Worth 15 points total (Quiz 1 is worth 10 points and Quiz 2 worth 5 points.)
Essay
Prepare a formal essay following APA style and all the rules of good grammar
and syntax. Pick one theme, issue, author, or technique and read at least
5 items. These can be articles or book chapters, or other materials. You
can compare different authors views on a topic, can contrast two schools
of thought, can trace a single author over a number of years, can trace
the development of a topic over time, simply discuss a topic or any number
of other possibilities. No matter what organization scheme you choose,
be sure to link in your own ideas, critique, and analysis of what you
read.
Worth 15 points
Due: May 3
Class Discussion Board
I expect you to be a participant on the class Discussion Board on Blackboard.
Beginning the second week of classes, I will post a new discussion topic
every other week on Sunday and you must post a reply of any sort—comment,
question, observation, gripe, anything that you want to share with your
classmates—during the two week period that ends at midnight on
Saturday for each topic. You may also begin new discussion threads whenever
you like and suggest topics for discussion here.
Computing Requirements
Please see the SLIS home computing requirements at http://slisweb.sjsu.edu/ecommunication/homecomputing.htm
Lectures are in PresenterOne format and do use streaming audio. You will
need the RealOne Player. Download it from http://www.real.com/realone/
Look in the upper right portion of the page and locate the small link
labeled "Free RealOne Player." It is available for PCs and Macs,
but Mac users must have OS X.
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