Teaching
Note: current versions of each class syllabus may differ, these are for example purposes only.
523 Abstracting and Indexing
Philosophies, standards, and procedures for manual and
automatic document indexing, back-of-the-book indexing, vocabulary control,
thesaurus construction, and abstracting.
3 Graduate Hours.
530 Information Access and Retrieval
Media for information storage, logical, and physical information
structures, query logic and languages, search strategies and heuristics,
user interfaces, evaluation of retrival system performance. Search techniques
for various types of databases including multi-media, full-text, numeric,
bibliographic.
Core Course, 3 Graduate Hours.
535 Advanced Information Retrieval
Bibliographic, non-bibliographic, full-text databases,
e.g., non-bibliographic formula and structure databases, contents-page/full-text
databases, patents; document delivery alternatives, evaluation, and testing.
3 Graduate Hours.
537 Information Industry
Issues and trends concerning information industry: products
and services. Standards, enabling technologies, choice of distribution
media, entrepreneurial opportunities. Legal, ethical, and quality concerns.
3 Graduate Hours.
566 Environmental Scanning for Information Professionals
Principles and practice of environmental scanning; information
evaluation and synthesis; role of strategic information in modern organization.
3 Graduate Hours.