Library Science Crash Course
Module 2 Min-Yen KAN
Fundamentals of LIS -Part II
Reference Interviews and
Library Evaluation

Today
Reference Interviews
Library Evaluation
Details on Course Assessment
Final Thoughts

Clarification on milestones
Survey Paper
Due: 3 Sep
Format: 6 papers at a minimum
Purpose: to get you acquainted with an area of DL in more depth.
Will lead to mini lectures
Can lead to related work in class project report
Class Project
Due: 29 Oct
Format: conference paper
Purpose: novel contribution to research in DL
Presentation of in poster session at end of class
Can be experimental, theoretical or purely implementation

Survey Topics
Automated Collection Building
Digital Library Social Policy
Domain Specific DLs
Intelligent Agents in DLs
Metadata Extraction and Indexing
Metadata Harvesting and Metasearching
Mobile platform DL usability
Music in Digital Libraries
Recommender Systems
Spatial and Temporal DLs
Speech in Digital Libraries
Web/Hypertext Information Seeking

Topics chosen so far

CHAN YEE SENG (Spatial and Temporal DLs)

CHEN XI (Metadata Extraction and Indexing)

EDWARD WIJAYA (Metadata Extraction and Indexing)

GUO SHUQIAO

HENDRA SETIAWAN (Metadata Extraction and Indexing)

HUANG WENDONG (Music in Digital Libraries)

LI YINGGUANG (Metadata Extraction and Indexing)

LIN LI

LIU CHENGLIANG

MASLENNIKOV MSTISLAV
QIU LONG

TOK WEE HYONG (Intelligent Agents in DLs)

VOROBIEV ARTEM (Peer-to-Peer Systems in the DL)

WANG GANG

WANG XIAOHANG (Metadata Extraction and Indexing)

WONG SWEE SEONG
YANG HUI

How would you grade a survey?
Who would want to read your paper?
What would they expect of it?
What would make them satisfied with your paper?
Is there a real need for this paper?

The survey as a synthesis of information
Organizes and summarizes the work
What’s the commonality in their problems, approaches and evaluation?
How are they significantly different from each other with respect to our topic of focus?
How accurately does it capture the materials present?
Are the papers chosen representative of the most relevant and highest quality papers?
What existing fields contribute to their expertise to research in this area?

The survey as a critical review
Makes a value judgment or editorial comment on the paper
What do you think the future research trends in this area are?  Why?
What do you think the significant barriers to progress in this field are?
What aspects of this area are underrepresented in the current research?
Different from ACM Computing Surveys or ARIST chapters
They emphasize an objective viewpoint

Other points
Be succinct
Make sure you edit and proofread your work.  English usage will factor into your grade if it hampers getting your points across
A secondary source
Provide an abstract
Other: index, navigational tips, figures or tables.