Week 1
1. Aug. 19th, Introduction to the Course
No readings
2. August 21: Introduction to Information
Science
Required readings
-- Bates, Marcia J. (1999). The Invisible Substrate of Information
Science. Journal of the American Society for Information Science,
50(12), 1043-1050. [Available from UNC's library as an e-journal]
Recommended readings
-- Shapiro, Jeremy J. and Hughes, Shelley K. (1996). Information
Literacy as a Liberal Art: Enlightenment proposals for a new curriculum.
Educom Review, 31(2).
Week 2
3. August 26: Research & Information Search
Process
Required readings
-- UNC Libraries' Library Research tutorial.
-- Kuhlthau, C. C. (1991). Inside the Search Process: Information
Seeking from the User's Perspective. Journal of the American Society
for Information Science, 42(5), 361-371. Read the following sections:
Introduction (p. 361), Six Stages of the ISP (pp. 366-369). Pay
particular attention to Tables 2 & 3 (p. 367 & 369). [Available
from UNC's library as an e-journal]
Recommended readings
-- Fielden, N.L., & Garrido, M. (1998). Chapter 2, The nature
of research, Internet Research: Theory and Practice (pp15-35). Fefferson,
NJ: McFarland. [Available from Blackboard]
4. August 28: Evaluating Information
Required readings
-- UNC Libraries' Evaluating Information tutorial
-- Ormondroyd, J., Engle, M., & Cosgrave, T. (1996). How to
critically analyze information sources. Reference Services Division,
Cornell University Library.
Recommended readings
-- Graham, Leah and Metaxas, Panagiotis Takis (2003). ‘Of
course it's true; I saw it on the Internet!' Critical Thinking in
the Internet Era. Communications of the ACM, 46: 70-75. [Available
from the ACM Digital Library, go through a library proxy if you
are not on campus]
-- Mitra, A. (2002). Viewpoint: Trust, authenticity, and discursive
power in cyberspace. Communications of the ACM, 45(3), 27-29. [Available
from the ACM digital library at UNC library]
Week 3
5. September 2: History of the Web
Required readings
-- Sterling, Bruce. (1993). A Short History of the Internet.
-- Kleinberg, J., & Lawrence, S. (2001). The Structure of the
Web. Science, 294, 1849-1850.
Recommended readings
-- Notess, G. R. (2002). Dead search engines. Online, 26(3), 62-64.
-- Zakon, Robert H. (2003). Hobbes' Internet Timeline v6.0. (This
contains a lot of information that's not relevant to this course,
so skim it. Note the entry in 1991: "World-Wide Web (WWW) released
by CERN; Tim Berners-Lee developer." Skim a little more closely
after this.)
6. September 4: Search Engines
Due: First Draft of Research Question
Required readings
-- Parts of: Sullivan, D. (2005). Web Searching Tips. Search Engine
Watch.
o Read: How search engines work
o And read: How search engines rank web pages (near the bottom of
the page).
-- Liddy, Elizabeth D. (2001). How
A Search Engine Works. Searcher, 9(5), 62-64.
Recommended readings:
-- GoogleGuide: How Google works, Google technology, How to interpret
your search results, Google web search features, About Google scholar.
Week 4
7. September 9: Web Search Strategies &
Web Site Evaluation
Required readings
-- Sullivan, D. (2007). Search
Engine Math, Power
Searching for Anyone, Search
Assistance Features, and Search
Feature Charts, from Searchenginewatch.com
Recommended readings
-- Fogg, B. J., et al. (2001). What Makes Web Sites Credible?: A
Report on a Large Quantitative Study. Paper presented at the Conference
on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Seattle, WA.
-- Lesley University. (2007). Evaluating
Web Sites.
8. September 11: The Invisible Web
Required readings
-- Bergman, Michael K. (2001). The
Deep Web: Surfacing Hidden Value. The Journal of Electronic
Publishing, 7(1).
Recommended readings
-- Price, G., & Sherman, C. (2001, Jul/Aug). Exploring the invisible
web: seven essential strategies. Online, 25(4), 32-34. [Available
from Blackboard]
Week 5
9. September 16: Use of Library Resources
& Services for Research-- Overview (Tour Davis library)
Due: Second Draft of Research Question
Required reading:
-- UNC libraries' library research tutorial: http://www.lib.unc.edu/instruct/tutorial
10. September 18: Library Catalog Searching
Required reading:
-- UNC-Chapel Libraries Catalog Search Tips
-- Check out the following library catalogs and pay attention to
their differences
o UNC old library online catalog: http://www.lib.unc.edu/webcat/
o UNC new library online catalog (beta version): http://search.lib.unc.edu/
o NCSU library online catalog: http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/catalog/
Recommended readings
-- Antelman, K., Lynema, E., & Pace, A.K. (2006). Toward a 21st
Centuray Library Catalog. Information Technology and Libraries,
25(3), 128-139. http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/staff/kaantelm/antelman_lynema_pace.pdf
Week 6
11. September 23: Introduction to Research
Databases
Required reading
-- Chowdhury, G.G., & Chowdhury, S. (2001). Information Scourses
and Searching on the World Wide Web. London: Library Association.
Chapeter 7: Electronic journals. [Available inBlackboard].
Recommended reading
-- Encyclopedia of Library and Information Science. Read: Description
and Preface.
12. September 25: Government Information
Guest speaker: Michael Van Fossen
Readings: TBA.
Week 7
13. September 30: Reference and Citations Search
Due: Website Evaluation
Required reading
-- Davis, P.M., & Cohen, S.A. (2001). The effect of the web on undergraduate citation behavior 1996-1999. Journal of the American Society for Information Science & Technology, 52(4), 309-314. [Available from E-journal]
14. October 2: Digital libraries
Required readings:
-- Borgman, C.L. (2000). From Gutenberg to the Global Information Infrastructure. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
o Chapter 2. Is it digital or is it a library? Digital libraries and information infrastructure. [Available in Blackboard]
Week 8
15. October 7: Topic Presentations
16. October 9: Topic Presentations
Week 9
17. October 14: Personal Information Management
Guest speaker: Kristina Spurgin, SILS Ph.D. student
Readings: TBA.
18. **Fall Break**
Week 10
19. October 21: Discipline-specific Resources
Due: Book evaluation
Required Readings:
-- Encyclopedia of Library and Information Science: Read: Description and Preface
-- Library Literature & Information Science: Log in and read: Help document.
20. October 23: Collaborative information
retrieval
Guest speaker: Chirag Shah, SILS Ph.D. student
Readings: TBA.
Week 11
21. October 28: ** No Class**
(Attending ASIST Conference)
22. October 30: Multimedia information retrieval
Required readings
-- Tomaiuolo, N. G. (2002). When Image is Everything: Finding and Using Graphics from the Web. Searcher, 10(1).
-- Pack, T. (2002). Image searching across the Web. Online, 26(1), 30-34. [Available from UNC's library as an e-journal]
-- Foote, J. (1999). An overview of audio information retrieval. Multimedia Systems, 7(1), 2-10. [Available from UNC's library as an e-journal]
Week 12
23. November 4: Second Life
Due: Journal evaluation
Guest speaker: Larry Taylor, SILS Adjunct faculty
Readings: TBA.
24. November 6: Web 2.0: Philosophy and tools
-- Wiki, Blog, RSS, Facebook
-- Software as a service and open source.
Required readings:
-- A History Department Bans Citing Wikipedia as a Research Source , by Noam Cohen, New York Times, 21 Feb 2007
-- The Wiki Principle , The Economist, 20 Apr 2006
-- Wikipedia, fact or fiction? , The Economist, 10 March 2007
Week 13
25. November 11: Multiplayer Online Role-playing
games
Guest speaker: Laura Christopherson, SILS Ph.D. student.
Readings: TBA.
26. November 13: Copyright & Plagiarism
Required readings:
-- UNC library: Information Ethics Tutorial
-- Bartlett, T., & Smallwood, S. (2004, 14 December). Four academic plagiarists you've never heard of: how many more are out there? The Chronicle of Higher Education. Available at: http://chronicle.com/free/v51/i17/17a00802.htm
Week 14
27. November 18: Class Presentations
28. November 20: Class Presentations
Week 15
29. November 25: Class Presentations
30. November 27: ** Thanks giving Recess**
Week 16
31. December 2: Class Presentations
32. December 4: No Class
Due: Research project report, annotated bilibograph, and
journal of the development of your research questions.
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Last updated: 9/7/2008