VIKMA11 Information Industry

Faculty of Arts
Autumn 2007
Extent and Intensity
1/1/0. 4 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
Teacher(s)
Mgr. Břetislav Šimral (lecturer)
Mgr. Petr Šmejkal (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
Ing. Zdeněk Kadlec, Dr.
Division of Information and Library Studies – Department of Czech Literature – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Mgr. Iva Dušová
Timetable
Fri 10:00–11:35 zruseno D51
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
The purpose of this course is to introduce students into current worldwide problems of production and archival storage of information, its retrieval and distribution to end clients. The aim of the seminar is to acquaint students with work of information professionals from beginning of whole process (reference interview) over retrieval, its methods and tools to final delivery of (value added) information packet to client.
Syllabus
  • 1) Introduction, information overload 2) Bibliographic software, DMS 3) Reference interview, evaluation and verification of information 4) Mediation of information services (legislation) 5) Leading players (Google and "the others"), meta search engines, utility, interesting SE 6) Advanced methods of retrieval (tips and tricks), visual representation 7) Invisible web, deep web, grey literature, patent information 8) Competitive Intelligence (tools, methods and databases for CI) 9) Information behaviour and information audit 10) Information resources for HR, PES 11) Information resources for information professionals, professional association and organizations 12) New information professions (consultant, brokers, CIO)
Assessment methods (in Czech)
Esej (seminární práce) o rozsahu cca 4 až 5 stran k relevantnímu tématu dle výběru studenta, vítané je i použití zmiňovaných databází, rešeršních strategií a nástrojů (NetSnippets, Onfolio, Furl, Biblioscape apod.). Práce je nutné odevzdat nejpozději do konce ledna ve schváleném formátu (bez schválení je možno použít běžné formáty MS Office, Open Office, HTML, Adobe Acrobat apod.).
Language of instruction
Czech
Further Comments
Study Materials
Teacher's information
http://www.e-quest.cz/ip.php
The course is also listed under the following terms Autumn 2004, Autumn 2005, Autumn 2006, Autumn 2008, Autumn 2009, Autumn 2010, Autumn 2011, Autumn 2012, Autumn 2013.
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