Date | Topic / Class Activities | Required Readings, Viewings and Assignments |
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Aug 20 |
Welcome
Overview of course/Information explosion
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Aug 25 |
The Science of
Information.
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Aug 27 |
Information seeking and behavior
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Sep 3 |
Information Seeking in Real Life
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Sep 8 |
Information organization:
Categorization
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Sep 10 |
Information organization:
Classification, controlled vocabularies, metadata and
facets
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Sep 15 |
The research process
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Sep 17 |
The research process pt. 2 |
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Sep 22 |
Conducting Research Slides |
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Sep 24 |
Identifying types of information sources Finding Encyclopedias Assignment |
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Sep 29 |
Evaluating information, approaches and techniques for the individual The Wikipedia Challenge Due 10/3 by 5:00 pm. Send via email. Lecture Slides |
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Oct 6 |
Analyzing scholarly research publications |
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Oct 8 |
Keywords and Mapping Search Approaches |
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Oct 13 |
Specialized info sources: Web
Resources Google, Bing, Wikipedia, Yahoo!, etc. |
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Oct 15 |
Specialized info sources: Academic
Resources
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Oct 20 |
No Class - Midterm Test |
Midterm Exam [.doc] distributed in class - due 10/27/14 via email |
Oct 22 |
TBA |
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Oct 27 |
Specialized info sources: Statistics and demographics |
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Oct 29 |
Specialized literature databases
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Nov 3 |
"CLASS CANCELED" Citation indexes Evaluating information
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MID-TERM EXAM DUE
BY 5:00 PM VIA EMAIL
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Nov 5 |
Managing Information pt 1:
Multi-tasking and Productivity |
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Nov 10 |
Managing Information pt 2: Personal
Information Management |
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Nov 12 |
Managing Information pt 3: Citation
Managment Mendeley |
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Nov 17 |
Online privacy
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Nov 19 |
Primary sources and archives |
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Nov 24 |
Archives and special collections
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After an introduction to the special collections at Wilson Library, we will be handling and reading documents from the Federal Writers' Project Papers, 1936-1940. This collection contains the life histories of about 1,200 individuals, written by about 60 members of the project after one or more interviews with the subjects. Persons interviewed, many of them African Americans, described life in Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Virginia. Matt Turi, Manuscripts and Archives Research and Instruction Librarian, will be our host. |
Nov 26 |
No Class | |
Dec 1 |
Information Access |
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Dec 3 |
Presentations
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Final |
TBA | |