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Course Outline

Evaluation & Grading

Assignments:

* Search Engine Reviews
* Library Website Reviews
* Wiki Assgnment
* Virtual Library Website

Readings and Materials

Useful URI Resources

 

 

 

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
Stielow: 3 & 4
Williams: Part 3

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

Search engine reviews

Wiki: WebQuests - Christin Chenard

6/12-6/18

Mounting the virtual library, Media literacy, Visual literacy, Design concepts

Morville: 21
Stielow: 7
Williams: 9-12

Draft of Prototype Phase for Virtual Library Project

Wiki: Evan Barta - History of the Internet

6/19-6/25

Maintaining the virtual library

Morville: 17-19
Stielow: Chapter 8
Williams: Part 5

Virtual library evaluations

Wiki: Thesauri/controlled vocabulary - Kristin Marrow
Building an Information Architecture
Team - Megan Weeden

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
Copyright - Erin Creighton

7/17-7/23 Evaluation of virtual library sites - Discuss virtual library sites
Maintenance Cycle of Virtual Library Project

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