Assignments:
| * | Search Engine Reviews |
| * | Library Website Reviews |
| * | Wiki Assgnment |
| * | Virtual Library Website |
LSC 548
INFORMATION ARCHITECTURE AND WEBSITE DEVELOPMENT
Course Outline
| DATE | TOPIC | ASSIGNMENT | DUE |
| 5/21 | First class will
meet 6:00-8:00 P.M. Thursday, May 21 in Rodman Hall, Classroom 1 Introduction to WebCT, Information Architecture, Virtual Libraries, & Review of HTML |
Morville: 1 & 2 Stielow: 1 & 2 Williams: 1, 3, 4 |
Read syllabus and begin front-end analysis |
| 5/22-28 | Basic Principles of Information Architecture, Hardware and Software, Browsers, Directories, Search engines and Meta-search engines | Morville: 3-8 Williams: 2 |
Idea for the Virtual Library Project Topic for Wiki Assignment |
| 5/29-6/4 | History of the Internet, Policies for the virtual library, Visualizing the virtual library, Design Issues and Strategies, Evaluation of Websites | Morville: 9-12 |
Draft of Initial Phase of Virtual Library
Project Plan |
| 6/5-6/11 | Building virtual library suites, Information Architecture in Practice, Web-based subject resource guides and WebQuests, Web site development software | Morville: 13-16, 20 Stielow: 5 & 6 |
Wiki: WebQuests - Christin Chenard |
| 6/12-6/18 | Mounting the virtual library, Media literacy, Visual literacy, Design concepts |
Morville: 21 |
Draft of Prototype Phase for Virtual Library Project Wiki: Evan Barta - History of the Internet |
| 6/19-6/25 | Morville: 17-19 Stielow: Chapter 8 Williams: Part 5 |
Wiki: Thesauri/controlled vocabulary - Kristin Marrow |
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| 6/26-7/2 | Collection Devleopment and More Tools | Williams: 13 | Wiki: Search engines - Rufen Lioa |
| 7/3-7/9 | Enhancing the virtual library | Stielow: 9 |
Wiki: Freeware programs for the web designer - Tom Connolly Publicizing the VL - Nicole Frechette Katherine Miosky - Do's and don't of creating a website Erika Steele - Digital learning & web based course management |
| 7/10-7/16 | Electronic Frontier Foundation, Future of the Internet | - | Pilot Phase of Virtual Library Project Wiki: EFF - Tom Frawley |
| 7/17-7/23 | Evaluation of virtual library sites | - | Discuss virtual library sites Maintenance Cycle of Virtual Library Project |
