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| INFO 643 Information Services In Orgs - 3.00 credits |
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| Examines various organizational structures and the influence of structure and environment on patterns of information processing and utilization by organizations. Emphasizes the role of function driving the demand for information. Focuses on the structure of information services, resources, and technology as a means of attaining organizational goals. Includes not only traditional business data but all forms of knowledge and emphasizes strategic and tactical uses. |
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| INFO 644 Knowledge Assets Mgt in Orgs - 3.00 credits |
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| Focuses on the nature, acquisition, and use of knowledge assets and their strategic role in organizations. Examines the role of information professionals in organizing, managing, and providing access to these important assets using formal and informal knowledge management systems. |
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| INFO 678 Competitive Intelligence - 3.00 credits |
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| Focuses on the analysis of existing information in order to uncover hidden knowledge about the environment internal and external to (or competing with) an organization. Examines how to analyze and integrate various types of information (patents, financial, production, market); how to use the new knowledge in strategic, tactical and operational decision-making; how to produce reports; and the ethics of competitive intelligence. |
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| INFO 624 Information Retrieval Systems - 3.00 credits |
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| Covers the theoretical underpinnings of information retrieval to provide a solid base for further work with retrieval systems. Emphasizes systems that involve user-computer interaction. Covers aspects of information retrieval including document selection, document description, query formulation, matching, and evaluation. |
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| INFO 674 Resources in Science & Tech - 3.00 credits |
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| Studies major information resources in pure and applied sciences, including the physical and biological sciences, engineering and technology, and interdisciplinary subjects. Emphasizes bibliographic organization, collection building, user needs, and reference service. |
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| INFO 675 Resources in the Health Sciences - 3.00 credits |
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| Introduces students to the information needs encountered in the health sciences, and the sources and services designed to meet them. Students learn to access, retrieve, analyze and present information from a variety of sources including databases of several types. Teaching the steps in evidence-based practice, and surveys broadly the provision of health information services. |
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| INFO 677 Resources in Business - 3.00 credits |
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| Focuses on meeting user needs for specific types of business information using strategies for identification, evaluation, selection, and use of specific sources. Sources include topical dictionaries and directories; indexes and abstracts; and numeric and full-text databases. Emphasizes the use of value-added print and electronic resources to meet user needs for information related to companies, industries and markets; corporate and international finance and investments; economic and demographic statistics; and one or more of the following topics: accounting, human resources, insurance and risk management, intellectual property, information systems, operations and logistics. |
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| INFO 680 US Government Information - 3.00 credits |
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| Studies the nature of United States federal government documents and techniques for their acquisition, organization, and use. |
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| INFO 681 Legal Research - 3.00 credits |
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| Introduces the fundamentals of legal research, including sources and research strategies. |
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| INFO 612 Knowledge Base Systems - 3.00 credits |
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| Introduces the concepts, principles, and techniques of knowledge base systems, with a focus on implementation of a working expert system. Presents the expert system development life cycle with a focus on analysis and conceptual modeling techniques. |
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| INFO 622 Content Representation - 3.00 credits |
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| Focuses on fundamental decisions in designing subject access systems and alternative approaches to indexing. Explores current issues in content representation: principles of subject analysis; natural language vs. vocabulary control; manual, computer-assisted, and automatic indexing; faceted indexing and classification systems; image indexing and retrieval; indexing and the World Wide Web. Includes evaluation of indexer consistency and indexing system performance. |
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| INFO 653 Digital Libraries - 3.00 credits |
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| This course introduces research and development in the world of digital libraries. Focuses on intellectual access to digital information resources. Topics include foundations and architectures of digital libraries, searching and resource organizing, knowledge representations and discovery, metadata and standards, interfaces and information visualization, intellectual property rights and electronic publishing. |
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| INFO 658 Information Architecture - 3.00 credits |
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| Introduces fundamental concepts, methods and theories in Information Architecture for virtual, physical, and hybrid worlds. Focuses on organization, representation, and navigation of conceptual space. Topics include foundations, Web design, cognitive aspects, search, interaction design, knowledge organization, and user experience. |
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| INFO 662 Metadata & Resource Description - 3.00 credits |
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| Introduces the critical roles played by metadata for resource description and discovery. Provides instruction on application and implementation of current metadata schemes and tools. Provides practice in creating metadata records, analyzing the usage of metadata elements and vocabulary schemes, and evaluating the metadata quality of digital repositories. |
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| INFO 780 Special Topics - 2.00 to 12.00 credits |
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| May be repeated for credit if topic varies. |
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