Class performance include in-class discussion, multiple mini-projects, the final project, and the midterm examination. Check course schedule for the due dates.

Note: Without proper excuse, late assignments would get 5 points deducted per day after the due day.

I. Projects and Examination:

1. Mini-projects (45% + 5% extra credit)

 

Projects	Number	Percentage
Information Technology Concepts and Literature	1	10%
Automation Vendor Profiling	2	15%
Technology Tutorial Wiki (extra credit)	/	5%
Webliography of Emerging Technology	3	20%

Detailed instruction is available in the project description sheet.

2.Midterm Examination (20%)

3. Term Project: Information Systems Case Study (25%)

Throughout the semester, you will be working in teams to study an actual information system in a library or an information center. Your tasks include interviewing key systems personnel to obtain first-hand knowledge of the organization's mission and technological infrastructure. You will collect information on the organization's hardware configuration, network architecture, its systems' division's staffing pattern. You will test and evaluate the organization's Web systems and talk to patrons/library staff to obtain users' input. You will provide an overall critical analysis of effectiveness and efficiency of IS systems in the library or information center.

Detailed instruction is available in the project description sheet

 

4. Class Participation (10%)

II. Course Grading Scale

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