This page provides a guide to the Webpages used to support the I-School course that deals with the interaction of information technologies and the information professions, as Professor Philip Doty and I taught it during 2000-2003.
The currently available materials are:
Aspects of Access to Information
Cryptography and Pretty Good Privacy
Information Expertise: Comments by Marcia Bates
Information Theory and Digital Representations*
Introduction to Operating Systems and Unix-Linux
Introduction to Public Information Policy
Introduction to Information Policy*
Introduction to Science and Technology Studies*
MARC Records and Variable-Length Record Structures
Notes on the 5-Layer and 7-Layer Models of Interconnection
An Outline History of the Internet*
Overview of Information Storage and Retrieval, Part 1*
Overview of Information Storage and Retrieval, Part 2*
Overview of Information Storage and Retrieval, Part 3*
Overview of the Open-Source Movement
Privacy on the Internet and the P3P Project
Some Pragmatic Aspects of Computer-Supported Cooperative Work*
Z39.50 and Other Standards for Information Exchange
* Lecture Materials marked with an asterisk are in the form of Microsoft PowerPoint files
**The Study Materials files are Portable Document Format (".pdf") files. To read them, you need to have Adobe Acrobat Reader as a plug-in for your browser. If you do not already have Acrobat Reader associated with your browser, you can download a free copy from the Adobe Acrobat Reader Webpage.
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Last revised 2005 Jul 22