16:194:610 SEMINAR IN INFORMATION STUDIES

Tefko Saracevic

Preliminary schedule for Fall 2005

Date

2005

Lecturer & topic

Summaries

Term project

Assig. no.
Readings*

Sept. 6

Opening      

Sept. 13

Information science

1.

Mills, Shera 1953, Shera 1970
 
Sept. 20 Librarianship

2.

Boyd 1996, Bush 1945, Saracevic 1999, Vakkari 1994,
 

Sept. 27

Information & bibliometrics

3.

Brookes 1973, Buckland 1991, White 1998, Machlup 1983

 

Oct 4.

G. Muresan: Information retrieval

4.

Van Risbergen (1999), Ingwersen & Jarvelin 2005, Muresan (2004). Optional: Belew (2002) ch 1 & 7

Oct. 11

 

Relevance

5.

Saracevic 1996 (on TS web site), Mizzaro 1997, Cosijn & Ingwersen 2001, Kekalainen 2002
Selection 

Oct. 18

Sherry Velucci
Organization of information

6.

Belkin ASK I & II.(1982), Pettigrew 2001
 

Oct. 25

Digital libraries

7.

Saracevic & Dalbello 2003 (on TS web site), Marchionini (in press)
 

Nov. 1

Marie Radford
Virtual reference
8.
 
 

Nov. 8

X. Zhang
User modeling

9.

Allen (1990), McTear (1993), Zhang (in press)

Nov. 15

Evaluation

10.

Sparck-Jones 1995, 2000, Tague-Sutcliffe 1992, Saracevic 2004
 Progress report 

Nov. 22


no class

 
 

Nov. 29

Education
11. 
 Shera (1972)
 

Dec 6.

Project presentations

 
 
Dec. 13

No class

 
  Project paper due

* Author names refer to chapters or article for a given topic as listed in the syllabus bibliography. Other readings may be added.


last update 26 Sept 2005 Tefko Saracevic