LIBR 500: Foundations of Information Technology Winter 2005 - 2006, Term 2 School of Library, Archival and Information Studies The University of British Columbia

Microsoft Access & PowerPoint
Netscape Composer
Macromedia
Database Design
Sociology & History of Technology
Web Design, Usability, HCI  and Information Architecture
Information Organization & Retrieval
Technology & Security

Microsoft Access & PowerPoint: Selection of books on both the 2000 and 2002/XP versions of the software


Netscape Composer: A few books that cover the program


Macromedia:Selection of books onStudio MX 2004: Dreamweaver, Flash, Fireworks, and Freehand


Database Design: [see also: MS Access above]

Database Design for Mere Mortals: A Hands-On Guide to Relational Database Design, by Michael J. Hernandez. 2nd ed. Addison-Wesley Publishing, 2003.

MySQL Weekend Crash Course, by Jay Greenspan. John Wiley & Sons, 2002.

Sociology & History of Technology

The Age of Spiritual Machines: When Computers Exceed Human Intelligence, by Ray Kurzweil. Penguin USA, 2000.

Atlas of Cyberspace, by Martin Dodge, Rob Kitchin. Addison-Wesley Publishing, 2002.

Avatars of the Word: From Papyrus to Cyberspace, by James Joseph O'Donnell. Harvard University Press, 2000. Being Digital, by Nicholas Negroponte. Vintage Books, 1996.

Dark Ages II: When the Digital Data Die, by Bryan P. Bergeron. Prentice Hall, 2001.

Double Fold: Libraries and the Assault on Paper, by Nicholson Baker. Vintage Books, 2002. Envisioning Information, by Edward R. Tufte. Graphics Press, 1990.

The Evolution of Wired Life : From the Alphabet to the Soul-Catcher Chip: How Information Technologies Change Our World, by Charles Jonscher. John Wiley & Sons, 1999.

The Future of Ideas: The Fate of the Commons in a Connected World, by Lawrence Lessig. Random House, 2001.

How Would You Move Mount Fuji? Microsoft's Cult of the Puzzle - How the World's Smartest Company Selects the Most Creative Thinkers, by William Poundstone. Little Brown & Company, 2003.

Information Ages: Literacy, Numeracy, and the Computer Revolution, by Michael E. Hobart, Zachary S. Schiffman. Johns Hopkins Univ Prress, 2000.

Information Anxiety, by Richard Saul Wurman. Doubleday, 1989. Information Anxiety 2, by Richard Saul Wurman. QUE, 2000.

Information Ecologies: Using Technology with Heart, by Bonnie A. Nardi, Vicki L. O'Day. MIT Press, 2000.

Inner Navigation: Why we Get Lost in the World and How we Find Our Way, by Erik Jonsson, Donald A. Norman. Scribner, 2002.

The Internet Edge: Social, Technical, and Legal Challenges for a Networked World, by Mark J. Stefik. MIT Press, 2000.

Leonardo's Laptop: Human Needs and the New Computing Technologies, by Ben Shneiderman. MIT Press, 2002.

Linked: How Everything Is Connected to Everything Else and What It Means, by Albert-Laszlo Barabasi. Plume, 2003.

The Robot in the Garden: Telerobotics and Telepistemology in the Age of the Internet, edited by Ken Goldberg. MIT Press, 2000.

Small Pieces Loosely Joined: A Unified Theory of the Web, by David Weinberger. Perseus Publishing, 2002.

The Social Life of Information. by John Seely Brown. Harvard Business School Press, 2002.

Steal This Computer Book 3: What They Won't Tell You About the Internet, by Wallace Wang. No Starch Press, 2003.

TechTV Leo Laporte's 2003 Technology Almanac, by Leo Laporte, Laura Burstein. QUE, 2002.

The Visual Display of Quantitative Information, by Edward R. Tufte. Graphics Press, 2001. Visual Explanations: Images and Quantities, Evidence and Narrative, by Edward R. Tufte. Graphics Press, 1997.

What Just Happened: A Chronicle from the Information Frontier, by James Gleick. Pantheon Books, 2002.

Web Design, Usability, HCI  and Information Architecture

Accidental Systems Librarian, by Rachel Singer-Gordon. Information Today, 2003.

The Accidental Webmaster, by Julie M. Still. Information Today, 2003.

The Art and Science of Web Design, by Jeffrey Veen. New Riders Publishing, 2000.

Back to the User: Creating User-Focused Websites, by Tammy Sachs, Gary McClain. New Riders Publishing, 2002.

Beyond HTML Goodies, by Joe Burns. Que, 2002. Building Accessible Websites, by Joe Clark. New Riders Publishing, 2002.

Cascading Style Sheets: Separating Content from Presentation, by Owen Briggs and others. glasshaus, 2002.

Constructing Accessible Web Sites, by Jim Thatcher and others. glasshaus, 2002.

Constructing Usable Web Menus, by Andy Beaumont, and others. Wrox Press Inc., 2002.

Creating Killer Web Sites, Second Edition, by David Siegel. Hayden Books, 1997 http://www.killersites.com/

The Design of Everyday Things, by Donald A. Norman. Currency, 1990.

The Design of Sites: Patterns, Principles, and Processes for Crafting a Customer-Centered Web Experience, by Douglas K. van Duyne. Addison Wesley Professional, 2002.

Designing from Both Sides of the Screen: How Designers and Engineers Can Collaborate to Build Cooperative Technology, by Ellen Isaacs and Alan Walendowski. Sams, 2001.

Designing Web Usability: The Practice of Simplicity, by Jakob Nielsen. New Riders Publishing, 1999.

Designing With Web Standards, by Jeffrey Zeldman. New Riders Publishing, 2003.

Don't Make Me Think: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability, by Steve Krug and Roger Black. Que, 2000.

The Elements of User Experience: User-Centered Design for the Web, by Jesse James Garrett. New Riders Publishing, 2002.

Emotional Design: Why We Love (Or Hate) Everyday Things, by Donald A. Norman. Basic Books, 2003.

Envisioning Information, by Edward R. Tufte. Graphics Press, 1990.

Eric Meyer on CSS: Mastering the Language of Web Design, by Eric A. Meyer. New Riders Publishing, 2002.

GUI Bloopers: Don'ts and Do's for Software Developers and Web Designers, by Jeff Johnson. Morgan Kaufmann, 2000.

Homepage Usability: 50 Websites Deconstructed, by Jakob Nielsen and Marie Tahir. New Riders Publishing, 2001.

HTML 4 for the World Wide Web, Fourth Edition: Visual QuickStart Guide, by Elizabeth Castro. Peachpit Press, 1999. Html Goodies, by Joe Burns. MacMillan Publishing, 1998.

HTML & XML for Beginners, by Michael Morrison. Microsoft Press, 2001.

HTML & Web Artistry 2 More Than Code, by Susan Harris, Natalie Zee. New Riders Publishing, 2002.

HTML for the World Wide Web with XHTML and CSS: Visual QuickStart Guide, Fifth Edition, by Elizabeth Castro. Peachpit Press, 2002.

HTML Utopia: Designing Without Tables Using CSS , by Dan Shafer. SitePoint, 2003. [book web site: http://www.sitepoint.com/books/css1/ ]

The Humane Interface: New Directions for Designing Interactive Systems. by Jef Raskin. Addison-Wesley Publishing, 2000.

Information Architecture: Blueprints for the Web, by Christina Wodtke. New Riders Publishing, 2002.

Information Architecture for the World Wide Web: Designing Large-Scale Web Sites, 2nd edition, by Louis Rosenfeld and Peter Morville. O'Reilly & Associates, 2002.

Information Design, by Robert E. Jacobson and Richard Saul Wurman. MIT Press, 1999.

Information Visualization: Perception for Design, by Colin Ware. Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, 2000.

Interaction Design, by Jennifer Preece. John Wiley & Sons, 2002.

JavaScript for the World Wide Web: Visual QuickStart Guide (4th Edition), by Tom Negrino, Dori Smith. Peachpit Press, 2001.

Javascript Goodies, by Joe Burns and Andree Growney. Que, 1999. Just XML (2nd Edition), by John E. Simpson. Prentice Hall, 2000.

Learning Web Design, by Jennifer Niederst. 2nd ed. . O'Reilly & Associates, 2003.

Maximum Accessibility: Making Your Web Site More Usable for Everyone, by John M. Slatin and Sharron Rush. Addison Wesley Professional, 2002.

More Eric Meyer on CSS (Voices That Matter), by Eric A. Meyer. Pearson Education: 2004.

Observing the User Experience: A Practitioner's Guide to User Research. by Mike Kuniavsky. Morgan Kaufmann, 2003.

Perl and CGI for the World Wide Web: Visual QuickStart Guide (2nd Edition), by Elizabeth Castro. Peachpit Press, 2001.

Practical Information Architecture: A Hands-On Approach to Structuring Successful Websites, by Eric L. Reiss. Addison-Wesley, 2000.

Robin Williams Web Design Workshop, by Robin Williams, and others. Peachpit Press, 2001.

Shaping Web Usability: Interaction Design in Context, by Albert N. Badre. Addison Wesley, 2002.

Son of Web Pages That Suck: Learn Good Design by Looking at Bad Design, by Vincent Flanders and Dean Peters. Sybex, 2002.

Usability for the Web: Designing Web Sites that Work, by Tom Brinck, Darren Gergle, and Scott D. Wood. Morgan Kaufmann, 2001.  Book web site: http://www.mkp.com/books_catalog/catalog.asp?ISBN=1-55860-658-0#Extras?ISBN=1-55860-658-0

Usable Forms for the Web, by Jon James. glasshaus, 2002. User-Centered Web Design, by John Cato. Addison Wesley, 2001.

Web Design in a Nutshell, by Jennifer Niederst. O'Reilly & Associates, 2001.

Web Design Virtual Classroom, by Laurie Ann Ulrich. McGraw-Hill Osborne Media, 2001.

Web Navigation: Designing the User Experience, by Jennifer Fleming and Richard Koman. 'Reilly & Associates, 1998.

Web Pages That Suck: Learn Good Design by Looking at Bad Design, by Vincent Flanders and Michael Willis. Sybex, 1998.

Web Redesign: Workflow That Works, by Kelly Goto, Emily Cotler. New Riders Publishing, 2001.

Web Site Design Goodies, by Joe Burns. Que, 2001. Web Site Usability Handbook, by Mark Pearrow. Charles River Media, 2000.

Web Standards Solutions: The Markup and Style Handbook , by Dan Cederholm. Friends of ED, 2004.

Web Style Guide: Basic Design Principles for Creating Web Sites, by Patrick J. Lynch and Sarah Horton. Yale University Press, 1999.

Web Usability and Navigation: A Beginner's Guide, by Merlyn Holmes. McGraw-Hill sborne Media, 2002.

XML for the World Wide Web: Visual QuickStart Guide, by Elizabeth Castro. Peachpit Press, 2000.

Information Organization & Retrieval

Accessing and Browsing Information and Communication, by Ronald E. Rice. MIT Press, 2001.

The Extreme Searcher's Guide to Web Search Engines, by Randolph Hock. CyberAge Books, 2001.

From Gutenberg to the Global Information Infrastructure: Access to Information in the Networked World, by Christine L. Borgman. MIT Press, 2003.

Google and Other Search Engines : Visual QuickStart Guide (Visual Quickstart Guides) , by Alfred Glossbrenner. Peachpit Press, 2004.

Google Hacks: 100 Industrial-Strength Tips & Tools , by Tara Calishain. O'Reilly, 2003.

Google in 30 Pages or Less, by TimesaverBooks.com. TimesaverBooks, 2003.

Google: The Missing Manual , by Rael Dornfest. Pogue Press, 2004.

Hunting and Gathering on the Information Savanna: Conversations on Modeling Human Search Abilities , by Brian Clark O'Connor. Scarecrow Press, 2003.

Information Representation and Retrieval in the Digital Age, by Heting Chu. Information Today, 2003.

The Intellectual Foundation of Information Organization, by Elaine Svenonius. MIT Press, 2000.

Introduction to Metadata: Pathways to Digital Information, edited by Murtha Baca. Getty Information Institute, 2000.

The Invisible Web: Uncovering Information Sources Search Engines Can't See. by Chris Sherman and Gary Price. Independent Publishers Group, 2001.

Looking for Information: A Survey of Research on Information Seeking, Needs, and Behavior, by Donald O. Case. Academic Press, 2002.

Metadata Fundamentals for All Librarians, by Priscilla Caplan. ALA, 2003.

Organizing Knowledge: An Introduction to Managing Access to Information, by Jennifer Rowley and John Farrow. Gower Pub Company, 2000.

Researching Online for Dummies, by Reva Basch and Mary Ellen Bates. John Wiley & Sons, 2000.

Search Engine Positioning, by Fredrick W. Marckini. Republic of Texas Press, 2001.Search Engine Visibility, by Shari Thurow. New Riders Publishing, 2002.

Search Engines for the World Wide Web: Visual QuickStart Guide (3rd Edition), by Emily Glossbrenner and Alfred Glossbrenner. Peachpit Press, 2001.

Sorting Out the Web : Approaches to Subject Access, by Candy Schwartz. Ablex Publishing, 2001.

Sorting Things Out: Classification and Its Consequences, by Geoffrey C. Bowker and Susan Leigh Star. MIT Press, 1999.

Spinning the Semantic Web: Bringing the World Wide Web to Its Full Potential, by Dieter Fensel. MIT Press, 2002.

Spidering Hacks, by Kevin Hemenway , and Tara Calishain. O'Reilly, 2003.

Super Searchers Do Business: The Online Secrets of Top Business Researchers, by Mary Ellen Bates and Reva Basch. Information Today, 1999.

Web of Deception: Misinformation on the Internet, edited by Anne P. Mintz. CyberAge Books, 2002.

Web Search Garage , by Tara Calishain. Prentice Hall PTR, 2004.

Technology & Security

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Internet Privacy and Security, by Preston Gralla. Alpha Books, 2002.

Firewalls For Dummies, by Brian Komar, Ronald Beekelaar, and Joern Wettern. John Wiley & Sons, 2001.

Net Crimes & Misdemeanors: Outmaneuvering the Spammers, Swindlers, and Stalkers Who Are Targeting You Online, by J.A. Hitchcock. Cyberage Books, 2002.

TechTV's Guide to Home Networking, Broadband and Wireless, by Jerry Lee Ford Jr. QUE, 2002.

Internet Site Security, by Erik Schetina, Ken Green and Jacob Carlson. Addison Wesley Professional, 2002.