School of Information Management & Systems.   Spring 1997.   M. Buckland.
Infosys 101: Information Systems. Class schedule. Handouts in italics

May 12 (Monday): Very last day for handing in Assign 4C Essay and sending brief e-mail note to is101@sims of what you found interesting or surprising.
May 8: Last class: Test 3.
May 6: Discuss Roszak The Cult of Information. Chap . 5 - on MOFF Reserve 641.
May 1: Exercise 11: Finding sources due.
May 1: Progress report on Assign 4B Essay due.
April 29: Assign 5: Social aspects of naming due.
April 29: Handout Dictators sleeping less easy in a wired world.
April 29: Discuss handout Budget mischief at UC.
April 24: From paper library to electronic library. Handout; Article.
April 24: Text chaps 16, 17 & 18.
April 24: Short e-mail summary to is101@sims of your Assign 4C Essay due.
April 24: Handout: Users slam Gale's review of revisionist web site .
April 22: Handout Bibliographic style.
April 22: Graphics handouts: Telephone directory; March on Moscow.
April 17: How books are made.
April 15: Discussion of Visit assignment.
April 10: Text chaps 14 & 15.
April 10: Assign 4A Essay: Half-page due.
April 10: Exercise 10: MELVYL's other databases due.
April 8: Second test on all work since last test on Feb 25.
April 3: Text chap. 13.
Handout Economics of information.
Handout: Electronic discovery proves an effective legal weapon.
Assign 2: Visit to exhibit.
Handout: Types of intellectual property.
Report & e-mail summary due.
April 1: Guest: Karen Coyle: Social responsibility.
April 1: Assign 3D Database: Database & Searcher's manual due.
April 1: Exercise 9: Social responsibility..
Mar 22-30: Spring recess.
Mar 20: Text chaps 11 & 12.
Mar 18: Handout: Privacy survival guide.
Mar 18: Assign 3C: Database. Data structure and sample record due.
Mar 18: Emanuel Goldberg and the history of information technology.
Mar 13: Text chap 10.
Mar 13: Handout: Exercise 7: Notes and comments.
Mar 11: Guest: Lin Everstz-Eriksson: K-12 textbook politics.
Mar 6: Text chap 9.
Mar 6: INMAGIC handout: Aspects of database development.
Mar 6: Handout: INMAGIC database - Assignment 3 - Update.
Mar 4: Video & handout: James Burke Darwin's revolution MOFF MC Video 997:8.
Feb 27: Handout: ...Armenian genocide...
Feb 27: Assign 3A: Database Name of collection due.
Feb 27: Discuss text chaps 7 & 8.
Feb 25: Test 1 on first five weeks of course.
Feb 25: Exercise 6: WWW and Netscape due.
Feb 18: Discuss text chaps 5 & 6.
Feb 18: Exercise 5: Personal names due.
Feb 13: Video and handout: Printing transforms knowledge. MOFF MC Video C/997:4.
Feb 13: Exercise 4: Half-page on "Me and Infosys 101" due.
On website: Last years exam questions.
Feb 11: Exercise 3: Gopher due.
Discuss text chaps 3 & 4 & Virtual universities...
Feb 11: Handout: Entities, attributes & values .
Feb 11: Handout: "Information" and related words .
Feb 6: Discuss text chaps 1 & 2.
Feb 4: Exercise 3: Gopher handed out.
Feb 4: Handout Virtual universities could produce only virtual learning.
Feb 4: Handout: MELVYL MARC display of Benny and his penny.
Jan 30: Assignment 1: Finding "Information". due.
Jan 30: Exercise 1: Email due.
Jan 30: Exercise 2: MELVYL catalog due.
Jan 30: Video: Mr. Sear's catalogue. MOFF Media Center VIDEO / C.1540
Jan 28: Guest: Prof Yale Braunstein: Components of a national information policy.
Jan 23: Telecommunications, information handling, delegation, and power.
Handout: Morse code, heliograph, mechanical semaphore.
Jan 21: Introduction. Course handout.
(Updated Jan 20, 1997.)