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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 fostering a broad understanding of the theories, issues, technologies, and values required to provide information services in a variety of settings and formats.
- 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.
- 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.
This course supports the following School of Library and Information Science (SLIS) objectives:
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;
Textbook
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 ]
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Course Requirements
| Exercises |
50 points |
| Quizzes |
15 points |
| Essay |
25 points |
| Participation in online discussion |
10 points |
Reasonable Accommodation of Disabilities
Students who need accommodation due to a disability must register with SJSU's Disability Resource Center (DRC) during the first three weeks of the semester. The Center will work with the students to determine the disability, document it, and determine the services and accommodations necessary for student success. Then, the DRC will contact the faculty member to determine the types of consideration necessary.
Students attending the Fullerton campus should first contact the Disability Resource Center in San Jose since they are SJSU students. The DRC will then direct the students to supporting resources on the Fullerton campus.
The DRC Web site: http://www.drc.sjsu.edu/
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Assignments
Read the SJSU Academic Integrity Policy
http://www2.sjsu.edu/senate/S04-12.pdf
Online Exercises - Quizzes - Essay - Class Discussion Board
Online Exercises
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 e-mail 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 Due |
February 22 |
| Exercise 2 Due |
March 14 |
| Exercise 3 Due |
April 4 |
| Exercise 4 Due |
April 18 |
| Exercise 5 Due |
May 6 |
Quizzes
Two quizzes: Quiz 1 will be posted April 7-8 only and must be completed and returned to me via e-mail by 11pm April 11 . Quiz 2 will be posted April 28-29 only and must be completed and returned to me at the address above by 11pm on May 2. If you have a conflict with any of those dates, please let me know in a personal e-mail 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 25 points
Due: May 2
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.
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Computing Requirements
Please see http://slisweb.sjsu.edu/ecommunication/homecomputing.htm
Lectures are in PresenterOne format and do use streaming audio.
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