Date: Thu, 18 Nov 93 21:33:21 EST From: ae446@freenet.carleton.ca (Nigel Allen) Subject: UIUC Telecom course syllabus Reply-To: ae446@freenet.carleton.ca I received the following course syllabus from Comserve@vm.its.rpi.edu, and thought that you might want to add it to the Telecom Archives. - - - C O M S E R V E - - - Graduate School of Library and Information Science University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign LIS450CC: Telecommunications Spring, 1993 Instructor: Greg Newby, 417 DKH, 244-7365 Email: gbnewby@alexia.lis.uiuc.edu Office hours: Tuesday 8:00 am - 10:00am, by appointment, and whenever my office door is open. Also most days, all day, via email. Class meetings: Room 307 David Kinley Hall. Monday afternoon 12:00 - 3:00. Course description: This course will give you both conceptual and practical expertise as an information networker. As the global telecommunications infrastruc- ture continues to shrink the world, you will be better prepared to deal with the new forms of communication which are emerging, and able to apply them in information service settings. Computer use: You will make frequent use of GSLIS and CCSO computing facilities. This will include logging into a computer and checking your electronic mailbox at least two times per week. (The GSLIS lab and other campus sites provide access to computer terminals. You can also access computing resources from any telephone using a modem.) You will be given all the training, documentation, and assistance needed to use the computer facilities successfully. No prior computer experience is required. Evaluation: You must complete ALL assigned work in order to receive a passing grade for the course. As the semester progresses, you will be expected to incorporate deeper knowledge of the course issues and demonstrate mastery of the readings and technical skills through your written assignments. -- Assignment 1 (15%): Human communication. Identify, analyze, and write about a specific example of human communication. Include mention of the participants and their roles, the situations, the channels of communication used, and some of the messages and their effects. Due in class on February 15. -- Assignment 2 (15%): Literature presentation. Find and report to the class on one article in the literature (on paper or electronic) pertaining to a topic of your choice. The report will be in the form of an electronically distributed summary and evaluation of the article. Include identification of the audience, required background knowledge, usefulness, scope, etc. You will choose a due date on which the article content most appropriately matches the class schedule for that day. -- Assignment 3 (20%): Analysis of an ongoing electronic interaction. Choose one or several ongoing networked communication forum(s). These may be mailing lists, newsgroups, regular 'chats,' MUDs, or other ongoing communication. Participate or just observe. Prepare a written report on the interaction, including such items as the participants, the 'rules' of communication, issues discussed, the level of cooperation and contention, etc. Due in class April 5. -- Assignment 4 (40%): Term Assignment. The term assignment is the major portion of your work for this class. The goal is for it to be useful and interesting to you. Choose ONE of the three options. You may choose to modify or expand on any of these options. A written (or electronic) proposal for the term assignment will be submitted on April 5 or before. Due at 5:00 pm on Friday, May 7. You will briefly share your findings with the class on either April 26 or May 3. Option A: Resource Description and 10-Minute Tutorial. Choose a network-accessible resource, service, standard, or norm. Describe it in detail, including its functions, audience, access methods, cost, people to contact, related resources, and (if applicable) some sources for literature or additional information (2-5 pages). Then, write a tutorial for using the resource for a user of a specified level of profiency (e.g., novice; expert; dislocated). One recommended format is a "10-minute tutorial," in which users are introduced to major concepts, brought through examples (preferably ones which they can try on-line), and given the opportunity to test and review their knowledge. The topics may be very narrow (such as, using the Telnet command) or very broad (such as, how to make yourself understood during electronic communication). Both components (description and tutorial) should be part of a unified whole, but should also be able to stand alone. You must pre-test your tutorial with at least two novice users, and include a brief review of their evaluation (and any changes you made as a result of it) as an appendix to your assignment. Option B: Term paper. Twenty to thirty pages on a topic of your choice. An evaluative review and synthesis of an area of relevance to information networking. Include a review of related literature and a forecast for the future. Option C: Term Project. You may choose any topic on which to complete some project. Projects might consist of empirical research, an RFC, some software, a bibliography, etc. All term assignments will result in some form of written work. For the assignment, you will use both traditional and electronic resources to complete the paper -- in addition to doing library research, you will be expected to contact experts using information networking tools. Your work will take a human-based approach to information networking (as opposed to a technology-based approach). You are encouraged to consider electronic (or non-electronic) publication of your term assignment. Methods for electronic publication will be discussed in class. Whether you decide to publish or distribute your work or not, your term assignment should be of a quality such that it is suitable for wide-spread distribution and use. -- Class participation and preparedness (10%). Includes regular use of the computer for email, participation in class discussions, etc. Readings: All required readings are available on reserve in the Library and Information Science Library. Many may also be obtained electronically. Several supplemental texts are available in the bookstore and will be discussed in class. The one required text is: Krol, Ed. (1992). The Whole Internet. Sebastapol, California: O'Reilly & Associates. Assigned readings are listed for each class day. These must be completed BEFORE the class during which they will be discussed. In addition, you should select an additional reading from the course bibliography or online collection for each class date. This may be a journal article, chapter from a book, or substantive electronic file or discussion. Or, you may identify your own supplemental reading in the library or online. Course schedule and readings: Readings with a plus sign + are available online (as discussed in class). Copies of all readings are available in both the LIS library and the LRL in GSLIS. 1. Jan 25 Introduction to the course - What is information networking and why is it shrinking the world? - Introduction to the tools of information networking - The human communication perspective on information networking - Information networking as an emerging form of human communication - Metacomputing concepts - Overview of networking applications for library environments - Course objectives and overview Assignment 1 discussed Read: Computers Under Attack (articles 1, 2, 3); Krol (chapters 1 & 2) 2. Feb 1 *** Entire class meets in 70 Commerce West computer lab Hands-on training: Getting started with Unix and networking - Introduction to ux1 and alexia - Protecting your account (security, viruses, etc.) - Some basic Unix skills - Introduction to electronic mail (email) with Unix and in general - Accessing course readings (on ux1 and with gopher) Read: Krol (chapters 5, 7, 11); + Shapiro & Anderson 3. Feb 8 *** Class meets in 70 Commerce West from 12:00 - 1:30 Hands-on training: Additional basic computer skills - More Unix commands and email - Printing - Uploading & downloading to the IBM PC - Sharing resources; using telnet and FTP - Using 'ph,' the UIUC phonebook Introduction to human communication - Introduction to theory of human communication - Human communication theory as a perspective on information networking - Information networking as a medium for communication - Information networking as an emerging form of human communication - Introduction to "netiquette" Assignment 2 discussed Read: + Rosenbaum & Newby; Krol (chapters 6, section "Resources on the Internet") 4. Feb 15 *** Class meets in 70 Commerce West from 12:00 - 1:30 Hands-on training: communication and resource access - Getting started with mailing lists and sending network mail - Listserv - Usenet - Anonymous FTP A. Information access issues in networked environments - Search strategies - Some common sources - Exhaustive versus sufficient searching - Identifying resources - Print and non-print resources for information about networks and networking B. The Wired Campus at The University of Illinois and somewhat larger networks - Basic concepts (From LANs to WANs, from ethernet to token rings) - Bitnet; Internet - Fileservers and gateways - What networks exist at UIUC? Read: Krol (chapters 3, 8, 9); + EDUCOM's "Bitnet Overview;" Usenet's news.announce.newusers (entire newsgroup contents); Tenopir Assignment 1 due in class 5. Feb 22 *** Class meets at 901 W. Oregon from 12:00 - 1:30 Hands-on training: Useful Unix tools and more hands- on experience - Uploading & downloading on the Macintosh - Editing with emacs and vi - More on pipes, shells, and redirection - Customizing your environment - Telnet to remote resources History and pre-history of networks and networking - The pre-history of computer networks, including the telephone - The history of computer networks - Bitnet and other "public" store-and-forward networks - Resources available over Bitnet Nuts and bolts of networking - Protocols - Gateways - Addresses Read: Krol (appendix A); + Kehoe 6. Mar 1 *** Class meets at 901 W. Oregon from 12:00 - 1:30 Hands-on training: Focus on some specific network resources - Archie - WAIS - FreeNet Public access to networking tools - The library as an internet node - Access issues - What's available; what needs to be done - Current efforts to facilitate network resource access (OCLC, LC, CNI, NREN, and others) Read: Bishop (1990); + Library of Congress (dp54) 7. Mar 8 *** NO CLASS MEETING (Spring Break) *** 8. Mar 15 *** Class meets at 901 W. Oregon from 12:00 - 1:30 Hands-on training: Additional specific network resources; advanced skills - Hytelnet - www - Unix power tools Impact of networking on social institutions and structure - The changing nature of the book - The changing nature of scholarly communication - The changing nature of democracy and government process - The changing nature of organizational communication - How can we deal with information overload? Read: Seiler; + Harnad; Cushman & King 9. Mar 22 Impact of networking on social groups and individuals - Social equality and social inequality as supported by electronic communication - Censorship issues - Gender issues - Issues for developing nations Read: + Barlow; Sauvant 10. Mar 29 A. Information policy - What is information policy? - Introduction to information policy today - What are the issues for national information policy today? B. Commercial networking tools - Information retrieval systems (from a human communication point of view) - Compuserve and other for-profit systems C. ISDN Read: Bishop et al. (1989); + Kaman; Gore 11. Apr 5 Network administration and getting connected - Basics of network administration - Bsis of system administration - Selecting and installing LANs - Getting connected to Internet - War stories Read: + Fitzpatrick; iMia Assignment 3 due in class Proposal for term assignment due (1-2 pages) 12. Apr 12 Ethics of networking - What are the issues for networking ethics? - Movie: Cliff Stoll's NOVA episode - Discussion of case studies - The written and unwritten ethics for information networking; the emergence of an ethics for information networking Read: Computers Under Attack (articles 8, 12, 15 and section 6); Dibble 13. Apr 19 Libraries and networked information - Cataloging issues - Selection/acquisition issues - Cost issues - Liability - Electronic reference Read: Atkinson; Saunders; Turner 14. Apr 26 A. Class presentations on term assignments B. Possible futures for information networking - Science fact or science fiction? - NREN, CREN, and other immediate futures - A terminal in every home and other less immediate futures - What's in the way of the future? - The future of research on information networking Read: + Furness ; The Matrix (Chapter 8); Smarr & Catlett 15. May 3 A. Class presentations on term assignments B. Conclusions: Towards the networked future - What is information networking and why is it making the world larger? - Information networking as an emerging form of human communication revisited Read: Winograd; Wright Term Assignments due at 5:00 pm on Friday, May 7. LIS450CC "Telecommunications" Spring, 1993. G. Newby Partial Bibliography NOTE: Materials which are available electronically via ftp to gpx.lis.uiuc.edu may also be viewed or retrieved using the gpx gopher server. Use 'gopher gpx.lis.uiuc.edu' Not all of the items listed here are available in the library or LRL. Prof. Newby can provide copies of materials which are not available elsewhere. Atkinson, Ross. (1992). "The acquisitions librarian as change agent in the transition to the electronic library." Library Resources and Tchcal Services 36(1):7-20. Avram, Henriette D. (1989). "Copyright in the electronic environment." EDUCOM Review (Fall) 31-33. Barlow, John P. . (1991). "Desparados in the Datasphere." Available: ftpgplis.uiuc.edu File: pub/netinfo/readings/Barlow.desparados Bishop, Ann . (1990). "The National Research and Education Network (NREN): Promise of new information environmental." ERIC Digest #ED327219. Available: ftp gpx.lis.uiuc.edu File: pub/netinfo/readings/Bishop.nren.90 ------, Philip Doty , and Charles R. McClure . (1989). "Federal information resources management (IRM): A policy review and assessment." in Jeffrey Katzer and Gregory B. Newby, eds. Proceedings of the American Society for Information Science Annual Meeting. Medford, New Jersey: Learned Information. Bishop, Katherine. (1992). "The Electronic Coffeehouse." New York Times. Brandt, D. Scott. (1991). Unix and Libraries. Westport, Connecticut: Meckler. Cerf, Vint. (1989). "Ethics and the Internet." Communications of the ACM 32(6):710. Computing and Communications Services Office . (1992). "Computing handbook for students and everyone else." Urbana, Illinois: University of Illinois. Cushman, Donald P. and Dudley D. Cahn, Jr. (1985). Communication in Interpersonal Relationships. Albany, New York: State University of New York Press. Cushman, Donald P. and Sarah S. King. (1989). "The role of communication in high-technology organizations: The emergence of high- speed management." in Sarah S. King, ed. Human Communication as a field of study: Selected contemporary views. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, pp 135-150. Denning, Peter J. (Ed.). (1990). Computers Under Attack. New York: ACM Press. Deutsch, Peter . (1991). "Archie -- An electronic directory service for the internet." Available: ftp gpx.lis.uiuc.edu File: pub/netinfo/resources/archie.description Dibble, Julian. (1990). "On line and out of bounds." Village Voice July 24:27-30. DiMattia, Ernest A., Jr. (1991). "New technologies and the library: A remote access perspective." Microcomputers for Information Management 8(1):45-51. EDUCOM. (1989). "Bitnet Overview." An electronic file available from LISTSERV @ BITNIC. Available: ftp gpx.lis.uiuc.edu File: pub/netinfo/bitnet-info/bitnet.overview Electronic Frontier Foundation . (1990). "New foundation established to encourage computer-based communications policies." in Tom Benson (Ed.) CRTNET 259, an electronically distributed newsletter. Available: ftp gpx.lis.uiuc.edu File: pub/netinfo/readings/eff.founded Fitzpatrick, Laurie M. (1992). The Public Library Potentialities. Urbana, Illinois (Unpublished manuscript). Available: ftp gpx.lis.uiuc.edu File: pub/netinfo/readings/Fitzpatrick.library-access Furness, Thomas. (1990). "Description of the objectives of the Human Interface Technology Laboratory." Available: ftp gpx.lis.uiuc.edu File: pub/netinfo/readings/hitl.manifesto Goodfellow, Geoff . (1990). "Legal overview - The electronic frontier and the bill of rights." in Tom Benson, ed. CRTNET 260, an electronically distributed newsletter. Available: ftp gpx.lis.uiuc.edu File: pub/netinfo/readings/eff.frontier- rights Gore, Albert. (1990). "Remarks on the NREN." EDUCOM Review (Summer). Grundner, Tom M. (1990). "'Free-Netting:' The development of free, public access community computer systems." Information Packet on the Proposed National Research and Education Network (NREN) distributed at the American Library Association Annual Conference. Harnad, Stephan P. . (1992). "Post- Gutenberg galaxy: The fourth revolution in the means of production of knowledge." Public Access Computer Systems Review 2(1)39-53. Available: ftp gpx.lis.uiuc.edu File: pub/netinfo/readings/Harnad.post- gutenberg Hiltz, Starr Roxanne & Turoff, Murray . (1985). "Structuring computer-mediated communication systems to avoid information overload." Communications of the ACM 28(7):680-689. Kahin, Brian. (1992). "Scholarly communication in the network environment: Issues of principle, policy and practice." The Electronic Library 10(5):275-285. Kahle, Brewster . (1991). "Overview of Wide Area Information Servers." Available: ftp gpx.lis.uiuc.edu File: pub/netinfo/resources/wais.overview.txt Kalin, Sally W. & Tennant, Roy. (1991). "Beyond OPACs... The wealth of information resources on the Internet." Database. August:28-33. Kaman, Geraldine . (1992). ISDN. Unpublished manuscript. Available: ftp gpx.lis.uiuc.edu File: pub/netinfo/readings/Kaman.isdn Kehoe, Brendon . (1992). Zen and the Art of the Internet. Urbana, Illinois: Project Gutenberg. Available: ftp mrcnext.cso.uiuc.edu File: pub/etext/etext92/zen10.txt. Krol, Ed . (1989). "RFC1118: The hitchhikers guide to the Internet." Available: ftp nic.ddn.mil File: pub/rfc/rfc1118.txt. ------. (1992). The Whole Internet. Cambridge, Massachusetts: O'Reilly. LaQuey, Tracy . (1993). The Internet Companion. Reading, Massachusetts: Addison-Wesley. Library of Congress. (1991). "Discussion paper 54 (Providing access to online information resources)." Available: ftp gpx.lis.uiuc.edu File: pub/netinfo/readings/dp54.txt Littlejohn, Stephen W. (1983). Theories of Human Communication 2d Ed. Belmont, California: Wadsworth. Lynch, Clifford A. . (1992). "Networked information: A revolution in progress." in Brett Sutton and Charles H. Davis, Eds. Networks, Open Access, and Virtual Libraries: Implications for the Research Library. Urbana, Illinois: Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Marshall, Peter . (1992). "WAIS: The Wide Area Information Server or anonymous what???" Available: ftp gpx.lis.uiuc.edu File: pub/netinfo/resources/Marshall.wais National Academy of Sciences. (1989). Information Technology and the conduct of research. Washington, DC: National Academy Press. Peters, Paul E. (1992). "Networked information resources and services: Next steps on the road of the distributed digital libraries of the twenty- first century." in Brett Sutton and Charles H. Davis, Eds. Networks, Open Access, and Virtual Libraries: Implications for the Research Library. Urbana, Illinois: Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Pliskin, Nava. (1989). "Interacting with electronic mail can be a dream or a nightmare: A user's point of view." Interacting with computers 1(3):259-272. Quarterman, John . (1990). The Matrix. Digital Press. Rochlis, Jon A. and Mark W. Eichin. (1989). "With microscope and tweezers: The worm from MIT's perspective." Communications of the ACM 32(6):689-698. Rosenbaum, Howard and Gregory B. Newby . (1990). "An emerging form of human communication: Computer networking." in Proceedings of the American Society for Information Science Annual Meeting, 27. Medford, NJ: Learned Information. Available: ftp gpx.lis.uiuc.edu File: pub/netinfo/readings/Rosenbaum-Newby.1990.body and Rosenbaum- Newby.1990.tables Saunders, Laverna M. (1992). "The virtual library revisited." Computers in Libraries 12(10):51-54. Sauvant, Karl P. (1983). "Transborder data flows and the developing countries." International Organization 37(2):359-371. Seiler, Lauren H. (1992). "The concept of book in the age of the digital electronic medium." Libaroftware Review 11(1):19-29. Shapiro, Norman Z. & Anderson, Robert H. (1985). Toward an Ethics and Etiquette for Electronic Mail. Santa Monica: The Rand Corporation (publication R-3283-NSF-RC). Also Available: ftp gpx.lis.uiuc.edu File: pub/netinfo/readings/Shapiro_Anderson.ethics Smarr, Larry & Catlett, Charles . (1992). "Metacomputing." Communications of the ACM 35(6):44-54. Sproull, Lee and Sara Kiesler. (1991). Connections: New ways of working in the networked organization. Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press. Swisher, Robert, Spitzer, Kathleen L., Spriestersbach, Barbara, Markus, Tim, and Burris, Jerry M. (1991). "Telecommunications for school library media centers." School Library Media Quarterly 153-160. Tenopir, Carol. (1992). "Online databases." Library Journal (December) 102-104. Turner, Judith Axler. (1990). "Messages in questionable taste on computer networks pose thorny problems for college administrators." The Chronicle of Higher Education (January 24) p. A13. Waite, Mitchell, MatiDonald & Prata, Stephen. (1990). Unix Primer Plus, 2d Ed. Carmel, Indiana: SAMS. Wallic, Paul. (1990). "Digital desperados." Scientific American, September. Wells, Maxwell . (1991). "An introduction to VR." Paper posted to sci.virtual-worlds on 10 April. Available: ftp gpx.lis.uiuc.edu File: pub/netinfo/readings/Wells.vr Winograd, Terry . (1990). "What can we teach about human-computer interaction?" in Empowering People: CHI '90 Conference Proceedings (special issue of the SIGCHI Bulletin). New York: Association for Computing Machinery. pp 443-449. Wright, Karen. (1990). "The road to the global village." Scientific American 262(3):84-94. -------- File ends ***** Greg Newby, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign ***** Ass't Prof, Grad. Sch. of Library and Information Science ***** Research Scientist, Nat'l Cntr for Supercomputing Applications ***** 417 David Kinley Hall, 1407 W. Gregory Drive, Urbana, IL, 61801 ***** Voice: 217-244-7365. Fax: 217-244-3302 E: gbnewby@uiuc.edu ***** gbnewby@uxh.cso.uiuc.edu, gnewby@ncsa.uiuc.edu -- Nigel Allen ae446@freenet.carleton.ca