IRLS506 Requirements.

Last altered 5/18/01

Requirements

 

The coursework requirement will be

  • One paper.
  • Statistics Quizzes. There will be two online statistical quizzes. Each of these will remain accessible for several weeks, and you will be able to make several attempts at them (with the grade of your best try to count). These quizzes will give you some indication of how well you understand the material, and the feedback provided to you will give some guidance on how to direct your studies.
  • Article Evaluations Four research articles in our field are included in the readings package. Students will evaluate three (3) of these articles as works of research. The articles to be used for this exercise are:
    • Borgman, C.L., Hirsh, S.G., Walter, V.A., & Gallagher, A.L. "Children's Searching Behavior on Browsing and Keyword Online Catalogs: The Science Library Catalog Project. "Journal of the American Society for Information Science, (1995) 46 (9), 663-684. In coursepack.
    • Buttlar, Lois, and William Caynon "Recruitment of Librarians Into the Profession: The Minority Perspective" Library and Information Science Research volume 14, (1992) pages 259-280. In coursepack.
    • Williams, Robert V. "Public Library Development in the United States, 1850-1870: An Empirical Analysis" Journal of Library History 21/1 (Winter, 1986) pages 177-201. In coursepack.
    • Wiegand, Wayne A. "Oregon's Public Libraries during the First World War" Oregon Historical Quarterly 90/1 (Spring, 1989) pages 39-63. In coursepack. (46-53 are all illustrations and are not in the readings package.)
    •

    The distribution of the marks is as follows

    • statistics quizzes 40%
    • paper 25%
    • article evaluations 35%

    Grading

     

    The following scales will be used

    Internal

    Internal

    For Graduate School

    90-100%

    A+

    A

    85-89%

    A

    A

    80-84%

    A-

    A

    75-79%

    B+

    B

    70-74%

    B

    B

    65-69%

    B-

    B

    below 64%

    C

    C

    Thus, for example, a mark of Internal: 82 A- External: A on a piece of work would be seen by outsiders as an A; however, the A- will convey to you that the work can be improved.

    Academic Code of Integrity

     

    Students are expected to abide by The University of Arizona Code of Academic Integrity. 'The guiding principle of academic integrity is that a student's submitted work must be the student's own.' If you have any questions regarding what is acceptable practice under this Code, please ask an instructor.

    Join our listserv

     

    There will be a listserv for this course. It will be established about the beginning of August 2001. Most of you will be familiar with listservs. But if not: there are two email addresses you need to deal with. The first is for joining or leaving a particular group. The second is for sending messages to a group that you have joined

    To join, send an email message to listserv@listserv.arizona.edu with 'Subscribe IRLS506' in the body of the message.

    Then to send messages to all of us, send to

    IRLS506@listserv.arizona.edu.

    A trap for young players-- remember that if you read a message from a listserv then hit 'reply 'on your emailer you will be replying to all other members of the listserv (this may not be what you intend, you may wish to send a reply only to the person posting (in which case extract their email address and go from there)).

    GAT

     

    The GATs for this course have yet to be appointed

    Please favor GATs over myself for all your questions except those on central academic issues. I believe that faculty, myself in this instance, should do all the teaching and assessing, and that is my practice. But it is viable with the student numbers that I am facing only if I am not distracted by concerns that the GATs could answer (such as why your Web Browser on your computer is not working properly).

    Contacting me

     

    Please raise queries by email. When the course is up and running, and you are a registered student, use the course's internal email (this is best for me as it keeps material related to this course in one place). Failing that, use ordinary email to mfricke@u.arizona.edu .

    Students with access to the campus can see me in Room 16 during Office Hours (Wednesday 11-2).

    There will be an online office hour, during which I will be available in a Chat room. This will be at a time to suit you students, but it may well be Monday 7pm MST.