schedule

Modified: June 1, 2008

San Jose State University
School of Library and Information Science
LIBR 202 Information Retrieval - dr. twining
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This schedule is flexible, meant to guide our learning, not dictate it.
* The Summer 2008 semester begins Monday, June 2, and lasts for 10 weeks.
Each new "week" on the schedule below (first column) begins on subsequent Sundays.
Assignment are due on the last day of the week in which they are posted.

SJSU Academic Calendar

SEMESTER		Readings	Individual	Group
Summmer Semester	Spring/Fall Semester
WEEK:	WEEK:
1	1	Introduction to 202 Glut (all)	Getting Started with the Technology	About Collaboration More about Collaboration Blackboard Discussions: Introductions, Q&A, Professor's Forum: How to read for this class
2	2	ABOUT DATABASES The following resources are offered to help you learn the basics of databases (use as needed): A primer on databases and catalogs The Great Database Page including this wonderful Visual of a database Databasics I: Records and queries and keys, oh my! - From GeekGrils	Begin retrieving Supplemental Readings Locate and retrieve at least 15 articles from supplemental readings, for use in Assignment 3 and weekly readings discussions	Blackboard Discussion: Attribute Elicitation Exercise , Part 1
2	3	Definition of an IR system Chowdhury Ch 1-2 Information Theory		Blackboard Discussion: Attribute Elicitation Exercise, Part 2
3	4	Chowdhury Ch 3-5	Online Exam #1 Due	Blackboard Discussion: Warming up our Thinking : A Model for LIS
3	5	Chowdhury Ch 6-8 Library of Congress Classification Outline	Retrieve Handouts from Course Documents in Blackboard and Review Groups Form, Begin Assignment 1	Blackboard Discussion: What is information?
4	6	Chowdhury Ch 9 Understanding MARC		Blackboard Discussion: Information Measures: Relevance
4	7	Chowdhury Ch 10-12 Dewey Decimal Classification Scheme	Online Exam #2 Due	Blackboard Discussion: Information measures (cont.) Pertinence, Recall, Precision
5	8	Chowdhury Ch 13-14 Ranganathan & Faceted Classification		Blackboard Discussion: Classification
5	9	Chowdhury Ch 15-16 How Boolean Logic Works	Online Exam #3 Due	Blackboard Discussion: Classification, Cont.
6	10	Chowdhury Ch 17-18 Evaluating IR Systems: Criteria Tutorials	Assignment 1, Part A Due	Blackboard Discussion: Boolean Logic
6	11	Chowdhury Ch 19-21	Online Exam #4 Due	Blackboard Discussion: Evaluating IR Systems
7	12	Chowdhury Ch 22-23 Info Seeking Behavior Overview Info Seeking Process	Assignment 1, Part B Due	Blackboard Discussion: Information Users and Behaviors: Info Seeking Models
7	13	Info Seeking on the Web Info Seeking Bibliography Info Seeking Behavior Overview Informing Science, Volume 3, Issue 2, pp49-56
8	14	"How Inverted Indexes are Created" Powerpoint presentation Diagram of Inverted Index Constructing an Inverted Index Powerpoint Presentation	Assignment 2 - Classification Scheme Due	Blackboard Discussion: Indices
9	15	Understanding Metadata DCMI - Dublin Core Metadata Initiative	Online Exam #5 Due	Blackboard Discussion: Metadata, Tagging, Other Topics
10	16	The Seven ages of Information Retrieval	Assignment 3- Index Due	Blackboard Discussion: The future of IR
Last week of Semester = Final Exam = Professor's Option

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