These courses represent my work toward the MLIS degree at the University of Washington iSchool. The [desc] links refer to the official course lists (with a couple exceptions) to allow review of course descriptions. The same products are grouped by ASIS&T competency, in case that organization makes more sense to the reviewer.
Autumn 2009
- LIS 500 The Life Cycle of Information [desc]
- LIS 510 Information Behavior [desc]
Course products: Social IB Model for Goal-Directed Work Teams, Information Behavior of Journalists
Winter 2010
- LIS 520 Information Resources, Services, and Collections [desc]
Course products: Research Consultation: Resources on success factors for public-health education campaigns, Resource Collection: Information resources for health-care reform policy advocates, Resource Description: A Dictionary of Modern Design - INFX 542 Information Structures Using XML [desc]
Course Product: XML/XSL-T to structure information and transform it for display
Spring 2010
- LIS 530 Organization of Information Resources [desc]
Course Products: Color-based scheme for enumerated classification, Faceted classification scheme - LIS 550 Information in Social Context [desc]
Course Products: Case Study: Liability and Ethics in a Library Setting, Journal reflections: Copyright, Ethics, Privacy, Liability
Autumn 2010
- LIS 570 Research Methods [desc]
Course Products: Literature Review, Research Design - INFX 538 Metadata Design Studio [desc]
Course Product: Complete application profile for a semantic web application based on EAD metadata about a Library of Congress archive
Winter 2021
- LIS 560 Instructional and Training Strategies for Information Professionals [desc]
Course Products: Instructional demo [link expired] embedded in a web page with capabilities for user feedback and hands-on trial, Instruction design - LIS 580 Management of Information Organizations [desc]
Course Products: Essay on management communication, Essay on organizational perspective
Spring 2011
- LIS 588 Special Librarianship [desc]
Course Products: Organization Profile, Plan of Action - LIS 600 Independent Study
Project focused on analysis and documentation of user experience controls and functions within the open-source Open Conference Systems software.
Course Products: Investigation notes & sample conference site display
Summer 2011
INFX 598 Information Architecture Seminar
Course Products: Powerpoint slides: IA, taxonomy, & navigation for a retail cooking equipment website
Autumn 2011
- LIS 531 Catalogs, Cataloging, and Classification [desc]
Course Products: Cataloging issue analysis, Subject heading assignment - IMT 540 Design Methods for Interaction and Systems [desc]
Course Products: Artifacts to embody design ideas, Design project: Improving Degree Planning through Information Sharing
Winter 2012
- INFX 594 Degree Research Project [desc]
Course Products: A Process Documentation Model for DCMI - INFX 571 Research Seminar: Museum Metadata [desc]
Course Products: Paper submitted for publication and object set created in the Open Metadata Registry
Spring 2012
- INFX 501 Concepts in Algorithmic Thinking for Information [desc]
Course Products: Independent study in the fundamentals of scripting with Visual Basic - LIS 590 Directed Fieldwork [desc]
Course Products: Complete documentation package for an Information Architecture project
Summer 2012
Research Assistant: Learning Linked Data project
Course Products: Project documentation and follow-on grant proposal