LSC 555 Information Systems in Libraries and Information Centers

People to Know

• Tim Berners-Lee (founder of World Wide Web; wrote the "Semantic Web" article from Scientific American, 2001)
• Jacob Nielsen (usability and heuristic evaluations)
• Paul Miller (wrote an article about Library 2.0 in D-Lib magazine, April 2006)
• Christine Borgmann (articles about library automation)
• Brewster Kahle (cataloger of the internet and creator of the WayBack Machine)

Articles to Read

• Cybrarian's Manifesto by Michel Bauwens
• Ten Usability Heuristics by Jacob Nielsen
• How to Conduct A Heuristic Evaluation by Jacob Nielsen
• As We May Think by Vannevar Bush
• The Semantic Web by Tim Berners-Lee
• Mooer's Law: In and Out of Context by Brice Austin
• C. N. Mooers (1960). Mooers’ Law, or, Why Some Retrieval Systems Are Used and Others Are Not. American Documentation 11 (3), p. ii.
• Automated System Marketplace articles by Marshall Breeding in Library Journal

Subject Guide

(This subject guide was gacked with permission from compssummer2007.)

Main Texts:
Kochtanek—Library Information Systems
Stair & Reynolds—Fundamentals of Information Systems

Current Syllabus for LSC 555: http://faculty.cua.edu/kules/LSC555/InfoSysSyllabus_currentdraft.htm

Topics to Review from combination Dave Shumaker's Fall 2006 and Bill Kules' Spring 2007 syllabi:

• History
  • Nature of Information Systems
  • Vannevar Bush
• Human Computer Interface
  • User Centered Design
  • User Behavior
  • Usability
• Information Retrieval Systems
• Digital Libraries/Portals
• XML
• EAD: Encoded Archival Description
• DTD: Document Type Definition
• Structured Documents
• Metadata
• Library Management Systems
• The Internet
• Representation & Management of Information
• Computer systems
• Communications Technologies
• Project Planning & Management
• Operations Management
• Technology Forecasting
• Digital Archives
• Databases and SQL
• Digital Reference
• Information Access
• Storage and Networking
• Web/Lib 2.0
• Privacy/Security
• Copyright
• Search Engines/Google