1. Information Search Tutorial 9.200 Information Systems for Management1 Tutorial: Information Search

2. Information Search Tutorial 9.200 Information Systems for Management2 Information Sources Internet Databases (library catalogs), many accessible through Internet

3. Information Search Tutorial 9.200 Information Systems for Management3 Internet Many different computer networks that are linked by particular software (TCP/IP – Transfer Control Protocol/Internet Protocol) Since 1974 in public use Boom in 1990s

4. Information Search Tutorial 9.200 Information Systems for Management4 Other Internet Services Transferring files (File Transfer Protocol - FTP) Communication via Email & Email distribution lists (Listservs) Communication via Electronic Bulletin Boards (Usenet) Communication via chat Communication via videoconferencing

5. Information Search Tutorial 9.200 Information Systems for Management5 Other Internet Services Transferring files (File Transfer Protocol - FTP) Using remote computers (Telnet) Web (World Wide Web) electronic text, image, sound, video used to build various systems (entertainment to business) uses special languages for marking information content (markup languages) and software for viewing the content (browser) Terms: Home Page, page, link, URL (page address)

6. Information Search Tutorial 9.200 Information Systems for Management6 Information Search in Internet (Information Retrieval) Information Retrieval Systems on the Internet (Search Engines) System Components: Spiders (scanning Web pages) Indexing Retrieval software

7. Information Search Tutorial 9.200 Information Systems for Management7 Information Search in Internet Search Engine Examples: www.altavista.com www.lycos.com Meta Search Engines www.google.com www.metacrawler.com

8. Information Search Tutorial 9.200 Information Systems for Management8 Information Search in Online Databases Online Databases: Bison: http://bison2.umanitoba.cahttp://bison2.umanitoba.ca ABI/Proquest: (start at: http://www.umanitoba.ca/libraries/ )http://www.umanitoba.ca/libraries/

9. Information Search Tutorial 9.200 Information Systems for Management9 Search Demonstration Task: Find useful information on writing a paper on information technology for business; try playing with information technology first Use google.com and an online (library) database Search strategy, keywords, special words that improve search results (google operators, AND and OR operators) Evaluation of search results

10. Information Search Tutorial 9.200 Information Systems for Management10 Off-Campus Logon For info on how to log in from home: http://www.umanitoba.ca/campus/computing_and_network/remote Other useful information: For UM site-licensed software: http://www.umanitoba.ca/software Computer support on the campus: 474-8600 for or email support@umanitoba.ca

11. Information Search Tutorial 9.200 Information Systems for Management11 Claim Your Accounts (Covered in Assignment 1) Asper lab: ID is student #, password is date of birth (yymmdd) If in doubt, ask Lab Supervisor If not enrolled in Asper School of Business, see Lab Assistant

12. Information Search Tutorial 9.200 Information Systems for Management12 UNIX: CLAIMID on University of Manitoba Web site http://www.umanitoba.ca/campus/acn/docs/claimid.html If you have problems, ask Asper Lab assistants More information at: http://www.umanitoba.ca/campus/computing_and_netw ork/remote http://www.umanitoba.ca/campus/computing_and_netw ork/remote You can use non-University accounts for your e-mail and Web site Claim Your Accounts