Uh oh (Part Deux)

Got a reply from the professor ...

Dear Alessandro,

Thank you for your note.

Welcome to LSC544!

Sakai is down at this point. I just called URI Sakai help desk.

There will be no f2f meetings. The first Online Self Introduction starts in January 18th, Wednesday from 6:30-9:15 pm. We will use that time frame to finish posting. You can post before that time once Sakai is up. Here is a list of textbooks that we will use for the class to gt ready.

Required Textbooks (They are available at the URI Bookstore and the Rhode Island Book Company).

Moore, David and Dwyer, Francis. (1994). Visual Literacy: A Spectrum of Visual Learning. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Educational Technology Publications. (Required. It is only available at the Rhode Island Book Company. It is called the LSC544 Course packet of "Moore's Visual Literacy Book" )

Rubin, Richard. (2010). Foundations of Library and Information Science. New York : Neal Schuman. (Required)

Barry, Ann Marie. (1997). Visual intelligence: perception, image, and manipulation in visual communication. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press. ISBN: 0791434362 (Recommended)

Tufte, Edward R. (2001). The Visual Display of Quantitative Information, 2nd ed. Cheshire, CT: Graphics Press. ISBN: 0961392142 (Recommended)

Tufte, Edward R. (1990). Envisioning Information. Cheshire , CT : Graphics Press. (Recommended)

Tufte, Edward R. (1997). Visual Explanations : Images and Quantities, Evidence and Narrative. Cheshire , CT : Graphics Press.

Wait, so the first class is TOMORROW? Hoo boy ...