Required

Course Reader Vol. 2. Available at University Copy Service, 2425 Channing Way between Telegraph and Dana. Open M-F 8:30-7:00 and Sat 11-5. The cost of the reader is $25.25.

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, 2nd edition (November 30, 2003), ISBN:1563089696. (Available at the campus bookstore.) 
 

Recommended

Programming for Corpus Linguistics (Edinburgh Textbooks in Empirical Linguistics), Oliver Mason,
Edinburgh Univ Press, 2001,  ISBN: 0748614079

Practical Digital Libraries: Books, Bytes, & Bucks, Michael  Lesk,  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.