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Our Agenda 3/24/07:

IS 490/510 Issues The nature of Information Information Environment Information Life Cycle Information Seeking/User Behavior Information Issues: Intellectual Property, Intellectual Freedom, Censorship, etc

IS 520 Issues:Information Organization, Structure and Exchange: Arlene Taylor, Organization of Information Standards (Metadata, Cataloging, various standards) Authority control bib control, etc, indexing and abstracting user information seeking behaviour

IS 530 Issues: (Bopp & Smith, Intro to Dialog) Information Access and Retrieval Access: Evaluating access tools in print and electronic Constructing search queries User Interfaces Database structure: Dialog, etc Search tools Controlled vocabulary vs free text searching Relevance Precision & Recall Web Searching