This page provides a guide to some of the Webpages used to support the I-School course, Systems Analysis and Evaluation, as I taught it prior to retiring from UT-Austin.
The currently available materials are:
Course Description (for a typical semester)
Elements of a System and Their Attributes
Introduction to LIS 387.5, Systems Analysis and Evaluation (a PowerPoint* presentation). This treats classic systems analysis and evaluation, business re-engineering, and business systems improvement, and also considers Dr. W. Edwards Deming and the ideas he developed and popularized concerning management, including Total Quality Management.
Management Insight - A Tale to Ponder
Style Notes for Writing a Systems-Analysis Report for LIS 387.5
Team Report, Fall Semester 2002 (in PDF** format)
Career Services Job-Postings Process
and Design for the School of Information: Analysis and Recommendations
Team Report, Fall Semester 2001 (in PDF** format)
available as a single file
Assessment of the Communication
Infrastructure of the Environmental Resources Management Branch of the Texas
Army National Guard (complete report, 2.36MB)
or as two somewhat shorter files
Assessment of the Communication
Infrastructure of the Environmental Resources Management Branch of the Texas
Army National Guard - Main Text (805KB)
Assessment of the Communication
Infrastructure of the Environmental Resources Management Branch of the Texas
Army National Guard - Appendices (1.58MB)
Team
Report, Fall Semester 2000 (in PDF** format)
St.
Andrew's Middle School Technology Integration: Analysis and Recommendations
The above team report includes an appendix on Web resources for use with middle-school
curricula, together with general resources for educators and links to other useful
Websites. This appendix is available in HTML format as
St.
Andrew's Middle School Technology Integration: Analysis and Recommendations: Appendix
C - Resource/Curriculum Software, Web Resources, Guidelines
Team Report,
Summer Session 2000 (in PDF** format)
GSLIS
Career Services Office Job-Postings Process and Design: Analysis and Recommendations
Team Report, Fall Semester 1999 (in PDF** format)
available as a single file
Web-Based
Education and the GSLIS (complete report, 2.33MB)
or as six files containing the various sections and appendices
Web-Based Education and
the GSLIS, Executive Summary and Section 1: History and Overview of Web-Based
Education (111KB)
Web-Based
Education and the GSLIS, Appendices to Section 1 (245KB)
Web-Based Education and
the GSLIS, Section 2: Instructional Design (107KB)
Web-Based Education and
the GSLIS, Section 3: Faculty and Staff (193KB)
Web-Based Education and
the GSLIS, Section 4: Student Issues (1.48MB)
Web-Based Education and
the GSLIS, Section 5: Technology Tools and Needs (233KB)
Also available is a PowerPoint* presentation of highlights of the team report
Web-Based Library- and
Information-Science Education: Its Problems, Its Promise, and Its Development
at the Graduate School of Library and Information Science, The University of
Texas at Austin (presented at the Tenth Transborder Library Forum, Albuquerque,
New Mexico, 2000 March 25) (726KB)
Team Reports, Fall Semester 1998 (in PDF** format)
Problems and Opportunities
in the Administration of Texas Courts: A Study Conducted for the Office of Court
Administration, State of Texas
Procedures for
Hiring in the Ysleta Independent School District, El Paso, Texas: Analysis and
Recommendations
Team Reports, Fall Semester 1997 (in PDF** format)
GSLIS Faculty-Staff Network Migration and Intranet
Project
GSLIS
Information Technology Services--Computer Lab Management: Analysis and Recommendations
Team Report, Spring Semester 1997
Multimedia
and Telecommunications, 1997-2002: Perspectives and Recommendations
Topics of Other Selected Team Reports
Distance Learning Resource Guide for the Texas
National Guard Education Services Department. Fall Semester 1997
Medical Relief Information Network (MRIN) Project
for the Texas National Guard. Fall Semester 1997
Improving Military Education Programs In Texas:
Possible Roles for the Committee on Military Education In Texas. Fall Semester
1996
A Study of External Book-Return Arrangments: Perspectives
and Recommendations. Fall Semester 1996
Collaborative Workforce Enhancement and Management
Support of the Texas National Guard Education Services Department. Spring Semester
1996
Library Security Systems: Use It or Lose It!--Recommendations
Concerning the Security and Protection of Materials in the Library of The University
of Texas at El Paso. Fall Semester 1995
Enhancing the Interlibrary Loan Operations of
the Central Texas Library System. Fall Semester 1995
Planning the Texas Military Forces Library: A
Report to the Texas State Guard, State of Texas. Spring Semester 1995
An Analysis of User Needs Concerning the Texas-One
Project, Department of Commerce, State of Texas. Fall Semester 1994
An Analysis of User Needs for an Improved Address
Database for the Department of Information Resources, State of Texas. Summer
Session 1994
An Analysis of Systems for Handling Information
Recycled Products and Materials in the General Services Commission, State of
Texas. Fall Semester 1992
Systems Analysis of the Information and Decision-Support
System in the Office of the Adjutant and Chief of Staff Services, Adjutant General's
Department, State of Texas. Fall Semester 1991
*To read a PowerPoint presentation, you will need
to have a version of Microsoft PowerPoint running on your computer.
**To read the Team Reports that are Portable Document Format (".pdf")
files, you will 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 2003 Dec 7