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Chalmer, Rachel. Surf Like a Bushman. From: New Scientist Magazine. (November 11, 2000)
This article discusses how two researchers are using foraging theories from ecology and anthropology to understand how people find information in data-rich environments such as the Internet. The researchers believe web surfers rely on prehistoric instincts to maximize their yield when they hunt and gather morsels of information, and their results could help others design websites and search tools that are as alluring to informavores as flowers are to bees.

Chan, Lois Mai. Cataloging and Classification: An Introduction. 2nd ed. (1994)
This book covers general principles of bibliography, cataloging, and indexing, and provides exercises to reinforce the concepts.

Chang, Shan-Ju and Ronald E. Rice. Browsing: A Multidimensional Framework. From: Annual Review of Information Science and Technology. 28, 231-76 (1993)
This article summarizes various notions of browsing, which are then integrated into a multidimensional concept of browsing. It also notes several outstanding problems concerning browsing.

Chimera, Richard and Ben Shneiderman. An Exploratory Evaluation of Three Interfaces for Browsing Large Hierarchical Tables of Contents. From: ACM Transactions on Information Systems. 12:4, 383-406 (October 1994)
A fully expanded stable interface, expand/contract interface, and multi-pane interface were used to browse a large table of contents. Expand/contract and multi-pane interfaces produced significantly faster task completion times.
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Clements, Maureen. Information Architecture: An Electronic Web Guide.
This guide covers societies and associations, books, journals, how-to sites, government and education sites, consulting firms, and other resources related to information architecture.

Cohen, Sacha. Becoming an Information Architect: Work As a Web Site Strategist. From: Monster Technology: Tech Articles. (December 19, 1999)
An interview with Mattie Langenberg, principal of the Chicago-based Schema Studios and creative director Michael Brooks about what skills a person needs to become an information architect.

Collins, James C. and Jerry I. Porras. Built to Last: Sucessful Habits of Visionary Companies. (1997)
This book identifies 18 "visionary" companies and sets out to determine what's special about them. To get on the list, a company had to be world famous, have a stellar brand image, and be at least 50 years old -- such as the Disneys, the Wal-Marts, the Mercks.

Constantine, Larry L. and Lucy A.D. Lockwood. Software for Use: A Practical Guide to the Models and Methods of Usage-Centered Design. (1999)
This volume guides readers in a step-by-step process for developing software using usage-centered design, which interconnects two major software development methods: use cases and essential modeling. It describes practical methods and models that have already been successfully implemented in industry, and its processes complement object-oriented software engineering approaches such as the "Unified Process."

Cooper, Alan. About Face: The Essentials of User Interface Design. (1995)
A book for anyone who wants to understand why so much software is so poorly designed and who wants to do something about the problem.

Corston-Oliver, Simon H. and William B. Dolan. Less Is More: Eliminating Index Terms From Subordinate Clauses. From: Proceedings of the 37th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics. (June 20-26, 1999)
The authors perform a linguistic analysis of documents during indexing for information retrieval. By eliminating index terms that occur only in subordinate clauses, index size is reduced by approximately 30% without adversely affecting precision or recall.

Cotton, Bob and Richard Oliver. Understanding Hypermedia 2.000: Multimedia Origins, Internet Futures. 2nd ed. (1997)
This book charts the developments in technology, culture, science and the arts to give a very broad understanding of just what hypermedia is and where it came from. The book also looks at the components of hypermedia, the processes of designing and building new media projects, and the future of the medium.

Crabtree, Andy and et al. Ethnomethodologically Informed Ethnography and Information System Design. From: Journal of the American Society for Information Science (JASIS). 51:7, 666-82 (2000)
This paper describes ethnomethodologically informed ethnography (EM) as a methodology for information science research, illustrating the approach with the results of a study in a university library.

Craven, Tim. Thesaurus Construction. (July 3, 1998)
A tutorial on the basics of constructing an information retrieval thesaurus. It includes a glossary of thesaurus terms.

Cuomo, Donna L. and Linda I. Borghesani. Improving the Usability of a Corporate Internet. From: MITRE Technical Report. MTR 97B0000006 (1997)
This is a case study of the development of the MITRE corporate intranet. This paper describes the requirements gathering process, the redesign process, the user evaluations performed throughout the redesign process, and the lessons learned in this redesign of a large-scale web site.