Readings

Required

Modern Information Retrieval, Baeza-Yates and Ribeiro, Addison Wesley, 1999. (See also http://www.sims.berkeley.edu/~hearst/irbook.)

The Organization of Information (Library and Information Science Text Series), Arlene G. Taylor, Libraries Unlimited, 1999, ISBN:1563084988. (Available at the campus bookstore.) 

The course reader will be available at Copy Central on Bancroft. It should be ready sometime next week.
 

Recommended

Lesk, Michael. Practical Digital Libraries: Books, Bytes, & Bucks . Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, 1997. 
 

Optional

C. J. van Rijsbergen. Information retrieval. London : Butterworths, 1975. This book is available online. 

Rowley, Jennifer. Organizing knowledge: an introduction to information retrieval. Brookfield, VT: Ashgate Publishing, 1992. 

Lucky, Robert W. Silicon Dreams: Information, Man, and Machine. New York: St. Martin's, 1989. 

Penzias, Arno. Ideas and Information: Managing in a High-Tech World. New York: W.W. Norton, 1989.