There are 14 sessions in total. The session by session schedule table below displays course schedules arranged by Session Number, Date, Topics and Readings & Assignments.

Here is a list of important dates and no-class dates:

9/5: First meeting of class
10/10:  Presentation by Thomason/Dialog Allison Evatt
10/31: Presentation by MetaLib Product Manager, Karen Grove
11/14:  Web-cast Presentation by Factiva Lorraine Bell  
12/5: Client Search Project Presentation Day I
12/12: Client Search Project Presentation Day II and Client Search Project Due
12/14: Wiki extra credit assignment due

 

Session	Date	Topics	Reading Assignments
1	9/5	Course Overview Introduction to online information retrieval Online Information Industry.	Walker & Janes, Chapter 1 Bell, S. J. (2005). Submit or resist: Librarianship in the age of Google. [Available on WebCT Vista]
2	9/12	Database Structure Search Process: Pre-search Interview and Search Tactics Boolean Operators	Walker & Janes, Chapter 2, Chapters 5-6 (p.55-106). Lab workbook, Section 1 (p. 10-12), Section 3 (p.30-34). Mann, T. (2007). The Peloponnesian War and the Future of Reference, Cataloging, and Scholarship in Research Libraries Tenopir, C. (May 1, 2001). Why I Still Teach Dialog. Library Journal. Distributed: Boolean Nested Logic Exercise (not graded) Dialog ID and password
3	9/19	Working with Dialog: Basic Commands and Search Planning	Lab workbook Introduction, Section 1, Section 2 Distributed: Dialog Assignment 1 Distribute Client Search Project; Assign Clients
4	9/26	Working with Dialog: Searching Database Basic & Additional Index Fields	Lab workbook Section 3 (p.34-43)
5	10/3	Working with Dialog: Word Proximity Searching and Full-text Databases	Lab workbook Section 5 Walker & Janes, Chapter 8 Distributed: Dialog Assignment 2 Due: Dialog Assignment 1
6	10/10	Working with Dialog: Database Indexes and Vocabulary Presentation from Thomson/Dialog GEP Allison Evatt	Lab workbook, Section 3 (p.43-52) & Section 6 Walker & Janes, Chapter 7
7	10/17	Working with Dialog: Displaying, Customizing Search Results	Lab workbook, Section 7 & Section 8 Walker & Janes, Chapter 9 Distributed: Dialog Assignment 3 Due: Dialog Assignment 2
8	10/24	Working with Dialog: Meta Search -- DialIndex (411) and SearchSave	Labworkbook, Section 4 Walker & Janes, Chapter 10 Distributed: Dialog Assignment 4 Due: Dialog Assignment 3
9	10/31	Electronic Indexes and Databases; Federated Search Systems Presentation by Karen Grove, MetaLib Product Manager	Jasco, P. (October, 2004). Thoughts about federated searching. American Libraries, P. 17, 20. Chen, X. (2006). MetaLib, WebFeat, and Google: The strengths and weaknesses of federated search engines compared with Google. Online Information Review, 30 (1). [Available on WebCT Vista] Distributed: System Comparison Assignment
10	11/7	Lexis/Nexis Classic, Academic Universe and nexis.com	Basch, R. (1999). Bridging the Browser Gap: LEXIS-NEXIS Universe. Online, 23(2). [Available on WebCT Vista] Learning Nexis. [Available on WebCT Vista] Distributed: Nexis Assignment Due: Dialog Assignment 4
11	11/14	Introduction to Factiva.com Presentation by Factiva Lorraine Bell Via Web-Cast	Factiva Inside-out. [Available on WebCT Vista] Distributed: Factiva Assignment Due: Nexis assignment
/	11/21	No class: Thanksgiving Break
12	11/28	Web Searching: General search engines, subject directories, specialized search engines,  and meta search engines	Calishain, T. &  Dornfest, R. (2005). Google hacks (2nd. ed.). Chapter 1. [Available on WebCT Vista] Hock, R. (2005). Yahoo! to the max. p1-46. [Available on WebCT Vista] Distributed:  Annotated Web Search Tools  Wiki Project Due: Factiva Assignment; Due: System Comparison Assignment
13	12/5	Client Search Project Presentation Day I Course Summary & Evaluation
14	12/12	Client Search Project Presentation Day II Due:  Client Search Project
/	12/14	Due at noon by Wiki submission: Web Search Tools

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