INLS 500, Fall 2007 -- Readings for the Course

 


The following list is in alphabetical order by author.  Please check the course Outline if you wish to see the readings in the order they will be assigned. Optional readings are displayed in smaller print. You are not expected to read all of the optional readings, but you are encouraged to read any that fall under your area of interest.

ALA Resolution on the Patriot Act (2002).   [http://www.ala.org/ala/washoff/WOissues/civilliberties/theusapatriotact/alaresolution.htm] Scheduled: November 29

Amento, B. et al.  (2000).  Does ‘authority’ mean quality?  Predicting expert quality ratings of web documents.  Proceedings of ACM SIGIR (Athens, July 24-28). 296-303.  (e-journals, ACM Digital Library)    Scheduled: October 9.

Bates, M. (2005). An introduction to metatheories, theories, and models. In K. Fisher, S. Erdelez, & L. McKechni (Eds.), Theories of Information Behavior (ASIS Monograph Series). New Medford, NJ: Information Today, 1-24. (other)  Scheduled: August 23  

Belkin, N.J. (1980).  Anomalous states of knowledge as a basis for information retrieval.  Canadian Journal of Information Science, 5:133-143. (e-reserve, bound journals, other)  Scheduled: August 30.

Belkin, N.J. (2000).  Helping people find what they don’t know.  Communications of the ACM, 43(8):58-61. (available electronically through the ACM Digital Library; photocopy in PAM box; other)  Scheduled: August 30

Brown, J.S. & Duguid, P. (2000).  Agents and angels.  In The Social Life of Information.  Boston: Harvard Business School Press, 35-62.  [HM851 .B76 2000] Scheduled: October 4. [e-reserve, Pam box, shelf]   

Chatman, Elfreda (1996).  The impoverished life-world of outsiders. (JASIST online, bound journals).  JASIS, 47(3):193-206. Scheduled: September 4.

Constant, D., Kiesler, S., & Sproull, L. (1994).  What’s mine is ours, or is it?  A study of attitudes about information sharing.  Information Systems Research, 5(4):400-421. Scheduled: November 8.  [e-reserve, Pam box, bound journals]   

Fisher, K.E., Durrance, J.C., and Hinton, M.B. (2004). Information grounds and the use of need-based services by immigrants in Queens, New York: A context-based, outcome.  Scheduled: September 25.  [e-journals, also current periodicals]

Leckie, G.J., Pettigrew, K.W. & Sylvain, C. (1996).  Modeling the information seeking of professionals: A general model derived from research on engineers, health care professionals, and lawyers.  Library Quarterly , 66(2):161-193.  Scheduled: September 20.  [bound journals, e-reserve, PAM box]   

Levy, D.M. (2005). To grow in wisdom: Vannevar Bush, information overload, and the life of leisure. Proceedings of the 5th ACM/IEEE-CS Joint Conference on Digital Libraries, pages 281-286. Scheduled: November 20. [e-journals: ACM Digital Library]

Lippincott, J.K. (2005). Net generation students and libraries. In D.G. Oblinger & J.L. Oblinger (Eds.). Educating the Net Generation. Educause: http://www.educause.edu/educatingthenetgen , Scheduled: November 13.

Marchionini, G. (1995).  Analytical Search strategies.   Information Seeking in Electronic Environments.  NY: Cambridge University Press.  Chapter 5, pages 76-99.  Scheduled: September 11. [book on reserve, also at http://ils.unc.edu/~march/isee_book/Chapter_5.pdf, diagram on Blackboard] 

Marchionini, G. (1995).  Browsing strategies.  Information Seeking in Electronic Environments.  NY: Cambridge University Press.  Chapter 6, pages 100-138.  QA76.9 .H85 M38 1995.  Scheduled: September 13. [available at http://ils.unc.edu/~march/isee_book/Chapter_6.pdf, diagrams on blackboard; book on reserve shelf] 

Marchionini, G. (1995).  Information-seeking perspective and framework.  Information Seeking in Electronic Environments.  NY: Cambridge University Press.  Chapter 3, pages 27-60.  Scheduled: September 6. [book on reserve, but e-copy at http://ils.unc.edu/~march/isee_book/Chapter_3.pdf with diagrams on the Blackboard site]   

Nasser, R. and Abouchedid, K. (2001).  Problems and the epistemology of electronic publishing in the Arab World: the case of Lebanon.  Firstmonday, 6(9): http://www.firstmonday.dk/issues/issue6_9/nasser/index.html Scheduled: October 30.  

Odlyzko, A. (2002). The rapid evolution of scholarly publication. Learned publishing, 15 (1):7-19. (Available through UNC e-journals). Scheduled: October 30.

Pierce, J. (1972).  Communication.  Scientific American, 227(3):31-41.  Scheduled: August 28 [PAM box, bound journals, other].  

Rieh, S.Y. (2004). On the Web at home: Information seeking and web searching in the home environment. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 55 (8): 743-753. (UNC e-journals).  Scheduled: November 1

Roel, Eulalia (2005). Intellectual property: Ethical economics. Journal of Information Ethics, Spring: 60-63. (Available through campus e-journals). Scheduled: November 27.

Rogers, E.M. (1995). Elements of diffusion. Diffusion of Innovations.  4th ed. New York: Macmillan. [HM101 .R57 1995]. Chapter 1, pages 1-37.  Scheduled: October 16.  [Blackboard, Pam box, shelf]  

Shedroff, N. (2000). Information interaction design: A unified field theory of design.  http://www.nathan.com/thoughts/unified. Scheduled: August 28.   

Snyder, J., Carpenter, D., Slauson, G.J. (2006). MySpace.com - A social networking site and social contract theory. Proceedings of ISECON. (see Blackboard site for access instructions - open archives) Scheduled: November 15.

Solomon, P. (1997). Conversation in information-seeking contexts: A test of an analytical framework (LISR, 19(3), 217-248) (Available through e-journals, bound journals). Scheduled: September 6.

Tannen, D. (1995, Sep./Oct.).  The power of talk: who gets heard and why.  Harvard Business Review, 73:138-148. (e-reserve) Scheduled: November 6. 

Taylor, R.S. (1968).  Question-negotiation and information seeking in libraries.  College & Research Libraries, 29(3):178-194 (p. 181-182, esp.)  Scheduled: October 2 [e-reserve, Pam box, bound journals].

Thatcher, S.G. (2006). Fair use in theory and practice: Reflections on its history and the Google case. Journal of Scholarly Publishing, April: 215-229. (Available through campus e-journals, Project MUSE) Scheduled: November 29.

Tombros, A., Ruthven, I., and Jose, J.M. (2005). How users assess Web pages for information seeking. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 56 (4):327-344. (available through UNC e-journals) Scheduled: October 11.

Williamson, K. (1998).  Discovered by chance: the role of incidental information acquisition in an ecological model of information use.  Library & Information Science Research, 20(1):23-40. Scheduled: September 27.  [e-journals, bound journals, on reserve in PAM box]