School of Information and Library Science
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

INLS 881/882, Research Issues and Questions I & II
Fall 2015 & Spring 2016

Optional Readings

Syllabus / Schedule / Assignments / Sakai class site

ADDITIONAL READINGS ON RESEARCH AREAS/TOPICS IN INFORMATION AND LIBRARY SCIENCE

The scope of the field

• Hartel, J. (2012). Welcome to library and information science. Journal of Education for Library and Information Science, 53(3), 165-175. [UNC libraries]
• Ma, L. (2012). Meanings of information: The assumptions and research consequences of three foundational LIS theories. Journal of the American Society for Information Science & Technology, 63(4), 716-723. [UNC libraries]
• Wang, F.-Y., Zeng, D., Carley, K.M., & Mao, W. (2007). Social computing: From social informatics to social intelligence. IEEE Intelligent Systems, 22(2), 79-83. [UNC libraries]
• Never Ending Friending: A Journey into Social Networking. Fox Interactive Media, 2007. Read pages 1-36. http://blogs.forrester.com/Never_Ending_Frieding_April_2007.pdf.
• Bates, M. (2006). Fundamental forms of information. Journal of the American Society for Information Science & Technology, 57(8), 1033-1045. [UNC libraries]
• Wilson, M. (2002). Six views of embodied cognition. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 9(4), 625-636. [UNC libraries]
• Clark, A. (1999). An embodied cognitive science? Trends in Cognitive Science, 3(9), 345-351. [UNC libraries]
• Radford, G.P. (1998). Flaubert, Foucault, and the bibliotheque fantastique: Toward a postmodern epistemology for library science. Library Trends, 46(4), 616-634. [UNC libraries]
• Buckland, M. (1996). Documentation, information science, and library science in the USA. Information Processing & Management, 32(1), 63-76. [UNC libraries]
• Buckland, M.K. (1991). Information as thing. Journal of the American Society for Information science, 42(5), 351-360. [UNC libraries]
• Shera, J.H. (1968). An epistemological foundation for library science. In Montgomery, E.B. (ed.), The Foundations of Access to Knowledge: A Symposium. Syracuse University, 7-25. [SILS reserves - BD161 .F6]
• Heilprin, L.B. (1968). Response [to Shera]. In Montgomery, E.B. (ed.), The Foundations of Access to Knowledge: A Symposium. Syracuse University, 26-35. [SILS reserves - BD161 .F6]

Description and organization of information

• Kless, D., Milton, S., Kazmierczak, E., & Lindenthal, J. (2015). Thesaurus and ontology structure: Formal and pragmatic differences and similarities. Journal of the Association for Information Science & Technology, 66(7), 1348-1366. [UNC libraries]
• Glushko, R.J., ed. (2013). The Discipline of Organizing. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. [SILS reserves - Z666.5 .D57 2013] (If you need an introduction to this part of our field, this would be a good place to start.)
• Hjørland, B. (2013). Facet analysis: The logical approach to knowledge organization. Information Processing & Management, 49(2), 545-557.
• Fox, M.J., & Reece, A. (2012). Which ethics? Whose morality?: An analysis of ethical standards for information organization. Knowledge Organization, 39(5), 377-383. [UNC libraries]
• Feinberg, M. (2011). Organization as expression: Classification as digital media. In Winget, M.A., & Aspray, W. (eds.), Digital Media: Technological and Social Challenges of the Interactive World. Lanham: Scarecrow Press, 115-133. [SILS - ZA4045 .D54 2011]
• Mai, J.-E. (2010). Classification in a social world: Bias and trust. Journal of Documentation, 66(5), 627-642. [UNC libraries]
• Hjørland, B. (2009). Concept theory. Journal of the American Society for Information Science & Technology, 60(8), 1519-1536. [UNC libraries]
• Ding, Y., Jacob, E.K., Zhang, Z., Foo, S., Yan, E., George, N.L., & Guo, L. (2009). Perspectives on social tagging. Journal of the Association for Information Science & Technology, 60(12), 2388-2401.
• Hjørland, B. (2008). What is knowledge organization? Knowledge Organization, 35(2/3), 86-101.
• O'Connor, B.C., Kearns, J., & Anderson, R.L. (2008). Doing Things with Information: Beyond Indexing and Abstracting. Libraries Unlimited. [SILS reserves - ZA3075 .O28 2008] (Of particular interest: Definition of terms (p7-15), Considerations of representation (p21-44), and Doing things with word-based documents (p133-163).)
• Buckland, M.K. (2007). Naming in the library: Marks, meaning, and machines. In Todenhagen, C., & Thiele, W. (eds.), Nominalization, Nomination and Naming. Tubingen: Stauffenburg Verlag, 249-260. [SILS reserves - P323 .N66 2007]
• Fonseca, F. (2007). The double role of ontologies in information science research. Journal of the American Society for Information Science & Technology, 58(6), 786-793. [UNC libraries]
• Shadbolt, N., Hall, W., & Berners-Lee, T. (2006). The semantic Web revisited. IEEE Intelligent Systems, 21(3), 96-101. [UNC libraries]
• Listen to: Schachter, J., Butterfield, S., Wales, J., & Shirky, C. (2005). Folksonomy: How I learned to stop worrying and love the mess. Panel discussion from ETech 2005. (35 minutes). [http://www.itconversations.com/shows/detail464.html]
• Mai, J.-E. (2004). Classification in context: Relativity, reality, and representation. Knowledge Organization, 31(1), 39-48. [SILS Library]
• Pinto, H.S., & Martins, J.P. (2004). Ontologies: How can they be built? Knowledge and Information Systems, 6(4), 441-464. [UNC libraries]
• Jacob, E. K. (2004). Classification and categorization: A difference that makes a difference. Library Trends, 52(3), 515-540. [UNC libraries]
• Chu, H. (2003). Information Representation and Retrieval in the Digital Age. Medford, NJ: Published for ASIST by Information Today. [SILS Library - Z666.5 .C48 2003]
• Binwal, J.C., & Lalhmachhuana. (2001). Knowledge representation: Concept, techniques and the analytico-synthetic paradigm. Knowledge Organization, 28(1), 5-16. [SILS Library]
• Sowa, J. (2000). Chapter 1, Logic. In Knowledge Representation: Logical, Philosophical, and Computational Foundations. Brooks/Cole, 1-43. [Available via Course Tools: Resources on class Sakai site]
• Kwasnik, B. (1999). The role of classification in knowledge representation and discovery. Library Trends, 48(1), 22-47. [UNC libraries, EBSCOhost]
• Miller, G. (1995). WordNet: A lexical database for English. Communications of the ACM, 38(11), 39-41. [ACM Digital Library]
• Hjorland, B. (1992). The concept of 'subject' in information science. Journal of Documentation, 48(2), 172-200. [SILS library]
• Wilson, P. (1968). Two Kinds of Power: An Essay on Bibliographical Control. Berkeley: University of California Press. [SILS Library - Z674 .C3 v.5; full view available via Google Book Search]

Personal information management

• Bruce, H.W., Wenning, A., Jones, E., Vinson, J., & Jones, W. (2011). Seeking an ideal solution to the management of personal information collections. Information Research, 16(1), Paper 462. http://www.informationr.net/ir/16-1/paper462.html
• Whittaker, S. (2011). Personal information management: From information consumption to curation. Annual Review of Information Science & Technology, 45, 1-62. [UNC libraries]
• Barreau, D. (2008). The persistence of behavior and form in the organization of personal information. Journal of the American Society for Information Science & Technology, 59(2), 307-317. [UNC libraries]
• Bernstein, M., Van Kleek, M., Karger, D., & schraefel, mc. (2008). Information scraps: How and why information eludes our personal information management tools. ACM Transactions on Information Systems, 26(4), Article 24. [ACM Digital Library]
• Jones, W. (2007). How people keep and organize their information. In Jones, W., & Teevan, J. (eds.), Personal Information Management. Seattle: University of Washington Press, pages 35-56. [SILS library - HD30.2 .P472 2007]
• Jones, W. (2007). Personal information management. Annual Review of Information Science & Technology, 41, 453-504. [SILS Library Reference - Z699.A1 A65; UNC libraries]
• Kelly, D. (2006). Evaluating personal information management behavior and tools. Communications of the ACM, 49(1), 84-86. [ACM Digital Library]
• Dumais, S., Cutrell, E., Cadiz, J., Jancke, G., Sarin, R., & Robbins, D.C. (2003). Stuff I've seen: A system for personal information retrieval and re-use. Proceedings of the 26th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, 72-79. [ACM Digital Library]
• Barreau, D.K., & Nardi, B.A. (1995). Finding and reminding: File organization from the desktop. ACM SIG CHI Bulletin, 27(3), 39-43. [ACM Digital Library]

Scientific data management; Big data

• Shah, D.V., Cappella, J.N., & Neuman, W.R. (2015). Big data, digital media, and computational social science: Possibilities and perils. Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 659(1), 6-13. [UNC libraries]
• Moore, R., Rajasekar, A., & Xu, H. (2014). Extensible generic data management software. Journal of Open Research Software, 2(1), e9, p1-5. http://doi.org/10.5334/jors.ap
• Daries, M.P., Reich, J., Waldo, J., Young, E.M., Whittinghill, J., Ho, A.D., Seatong, D.T., & Chuang, I. (2014). Privacy, anonymity, and big data in the social sciences. Communications of the ACM, 57(9), 56-63. [UNC libraries]
• boyd, d., & Crawford, K. (2012). Critical questions for big data: Provocations for a cultural, technological, and scholarly phenomenon. Information, Communication & Society, 15(5), 662-679. [UNC libraries]
• Borgman, C.L. (2012). The conundrum of sharing research data. Journal of the American Society for Information Science & Technology, 63(6), 1059-1078. [UNC libraries]
• McKinsey Global Institute. (2011, May). Big data: The next frontier for innovation, competition, and productivity. McKinsey & Co. http://www.mckinsey.com/insights/business_technology/big_data_the_next_frontier_for_innovation
• Edwards, P.N., Mayernik, M.S., Batcheller, A.L., Bowker, G.C., & Borgman, C.L. (2011). Science friction: Data, metadata, and collaboration. Social Studies of Science, 41(5), 667-690. [UNC libraries]
• Rajasekar, A., Moore, R., Wan, M., Schroeder, W., & Hasan, A. (2010). Applying rules as policies for large-scale data sharing. Paper presented a the 2010 International Conference on Intelligent Systems, Modelling and Simulation, 322-327. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ISMS.2010.66
• Lynch, C. (2008). How do your data grow? [Commentary]. Nature, 455(4), 28-29. [UNC libraries]
• Borgman, C.L., Wallis, J.C., & Enyedy, N. (2007). Little science confronts the data deluge: Habit ecology, embedded sensor networks, and digital libraries. International Journal of Digital Libraries, 7, 17-30. [UNC libraries]

Curation, preservation, archives

• Rhee, H.L. (2015). Reflections on archival user studies. Reference & User Services Quarterly, 54(4), 29-42. [http://journals.ala.org/rusq/article/view/5707/7098]
• Vilar, P., & Sauperl, A. (2015). Archives, quo vadis et cum quibus?: Archivists' self-perceptions and perceptions of users of contemporary archives. International Journal of Information Management, 35(5), 551-560. [UNC libraries]
• Trace, C.B., & Francisco-Revilla, L. (2015). The value and complexity of collection arrangement for evidentiary work. Journal of the Association for Information Science & Technology, 66(9), 1857-1882. [UNC libraries]
• Bartlett, J.A. (2014). Internet reviews: Crowdsourcing in libraries and archives. Kentucky Libraries, 78(2), 6-8. [UNC libraries]
• Downing, N.M. (2014). The UNC Law Library's redaction of its digitized collection of North Carolina Supreme Court briefs: A case study. Master's paper, School of Information & Library Science, University of North Carolina. [Carolina Digital Repository; SILS MP4123]
• Wood, S., Carbone, K., Cifor, M., Gilliland, A., & Punzalan, R. (2014). Mobilizing records: Re-framing archival description to support human rights. Archival Science, 14(3/4), 397-419. [UNC libraries]
• Cook, T. (2013). Evidence, memory, identity, and community: Four shifting archival paradigms. Archival Science, 13(2-3), 95-120.
• Carroll, E. (2013). Digital inheritance: Tackling the legal and practical issues. In Hawkins, D.T. (ed.), Personal Archiving: Preserving our Digital Heritage. Information Today, 73-84. [UNC libraries, online]
• Kim, S. (2013). Landscape of personal digital archiving activities and research. In Hawkins, D.T. (ed.), Personal Archiving: Preserving our Digital Heritage. Information Today, 153-185. [UNC libraries, online]
• Marshall, C.C. (2013). Social media, personal data, and reusing our digital legacy. In Hawkins, D.T. (ed.), Personal Archiving: Preserving our Digital Heritage. Information Today, 85-108. [UNC libraries, online]
• Ubois, J. (2013). Personal digital archives: What they are, what they could be, and why they matter. In Hawkins, D.T. (ed.), Personal Archiving: Preserving our Digital Heritage. Information Today, 1-9. [UNC libraries, online]
• Tibbo, H.R. (2012). Placing the horse before the cart: Conceptual and technical dimensions of digital curation. Historical Social Research, 37(3), 187-200. [Social Science Open Access Repository, http://www.ssoar.info/ssoar/handle/document/37891]
• Lee, C.A. (2011). Collecting the externalized me: Appraisal of materials in the social web. In Lee, C.A. (ed.), I, Digital: Personal Collections in the Digital Era. Chicago: Society of American Archivists, 202-238. [SILS Reserves - CD977 .I22 2011]
• Marshall, C.C. (2011). Challenges and opportunities for personal digital archiving. In Lee, C.A. (ed.), I, Digital: Personal Collections in the Digital Era. Chicago: Society of American Archivists, 90-114. [SILS Reserves - CD977 .I22 2011]
• Onuf, R., & Hyry, T. (2011). Take it personally: The implications of personal records in electronic form. In Lee, C.A. (ed.), I, Digital: Personal Collections in the Digital Era. Chicago: Society of American Archivists, 241-256. [SILS Reserves - CD977 .I22 2011]
• Moyle, M., Tonra, J., & Wallace, V. (2011). Manuscript transcription by crowdsourcing: Transcribe Bentham. LIBER Quarterly, 20(3/4), 347-356. [UNC libraries]
• Flinn, A. (2010). Independent community archives and community-generated content: 'Writing, saving and sharing our histories'. Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies, 16(1), 39-51. [UNC libraries]
• Szabo, G., & Huberman, B.A. (2010). Predicting the popularity of online content. Communications of the ACM, 53(8), 80-88. [UNC libraries]
• Marshall, C.C. (2008). From writing and analysis to the repository: Taking the scholars' perspective on scholarly archiving. Proceedings of the 8th ACM/IEEE-CS Joint Conference on Digital Libraries, 251-260. [ACM Digital Library]
• Flinn, A. (2007). Community histories, community archives: Some opportunities and challenges. Journal of the Society of Archivists, 28(2), 151-176. [UNC libraries]
• Smith, A. (2007). Valuing preservation. Library Trends, 56(1), 4-25. [UNC libraries]
• Silberman, N. (2007). Cultural heritage and the information technologies: Facing the grand challenges and structural transformations of the 21st century. In Niccolucci, F. (ed.), Digital Applications for Tangible Cultural Heritage: Report on the State of teh Union: Policies, Practices and Developments in Europe, Volume 2. Budapest: Archaeolingua. http://works.bepress.com/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1034&context=neil_silberman.
• Lee, C. (2007). A talk on digital preservation. UNC-CH/YouTube Information in Life Series. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RHy9CW_vMp4&feature=PlayList&p=19189F4C412A6E09&index=1.

Information/technology services

• Tobias, C., & Blair, A. (2015). Listen to what you cannot hear, observe what you cannot see: An Introduction to evidence-based methods for evaluating and enhancing the user experience in distance library services. Journal of Library & Information Services, 9(1-2), 148-156.
• Davies, R., & Williams, D. (2013). Towards a conceptual framework for provider information behaviour. Journal of Documentation, 69(4), 545-566. [UNC libraries]
• Tyckoson, D.A. (2011). History and functions of reference service. In Bopp, R.E., & Smith, L.C. (eds.),Refernce and Information Services: An Introduction. 4th edition. Santa Barbara: Libraries Unlimited, 3-17. [UNC libraries]
• McInerney, C.R., & Koenig, M.E.D. (2011). Knowledge Management (KM) Processes in Organizations: Theoretical Foundations and Practice. Synthesis Lectures on Information Concepts, Retrieval, and Services #18. Morgan & Claypool. [UNC libraries]
• Peters, T.A. (2011). Left to their own devices: The future of reference services on personal, portable information, communication, and entertainment devices. Reference Librarian, 52, 88-97. [UNC libraries]
• Aabo, S., Audunson, R., & Varheim, A. (2010). How do public libraries function as meeting places? Library & Information Science Research, 32(1), 16-26. [UNC libraries]
• Bardhan, I.R., Demirkan, H., Kannan, P.K., Kauffman, R.J., & Sougstad, R. (2010). An interdisciplinary perspective on IT services management and service science. Journal of Management Information Systems, 26(4), 13-64. [UNC libraries]
• Burnett, G., Jaeger, P.T., & Thompson, K.M. (2008). Normative behavior and information: The social aspects of information access. Library & Information Science Research, 30(1), 56-66. [UNC libraries]
• Brown, S.W. (2008). The reference interview: Theories and practice. Library Philosophy and Practice, January, 1-8.
• Xie, H.I. (2008). Users' evaluation of digital libraries (DLs): Their uses, their criteria, and their assessment. Information Processing & Management, 44(3), 1346-1373.
• Glushko, R.J. (2008). Designing a service science discipline with discipline. IBM Systems Journal, 47(1), 15-27. [UNC libraries]
• Spohrer, J., Maglio, P. P., Bailey, J., & Gruhl, D. (2007). Steps toward a science of service systems. Computer, 40(1), 71-77. [UNC libraries]
• Pomerantz, J., & Marchionini, G. (2007). The digital library as place. Journal of Documentation, 63(4), 505-533. [UNC libraries]
• Fallis, D. (2006). Social epistemology and information science (part 2). Annual Review of Information Science & Technology, 40, 486-503 (only). [UNC libraries]
• Xie, H.(I.) (2006). Evaluation of digital libraries: Criteria and problems from users' perspectives. Library & Information Science Research, 28(3), 433-452.
• Hernon, P., & Calvert, P. (2005). E-service quality in libraries: Exploring its features and dimensions. Library & Information Science Research, 27(3), 377-404. [UNC libraries]
• Bourne, C.P., & Hahn, T.B. (2003). A History of Online Information Services, 1963-1976. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. [SILS Library - Z699 .B647 2003]
• Whitten, G.D. (2003). An examination of information systems service quality measurement: the contribution of the SERVQUAL instrument from the marketing literature. Proceedings of the Ninth Americas Conference on Information Systems, 2821-2830.
• Saracevic, T. (2000). Digital library evaluation: Toward an evolution of concepts. Library Trends, 49(2), 350-369.
• Hernon, P., Nitecki, D.A., & Altman, E. (1999). Service quality and customer satisfaction: An assessment and future directions. Journal of Academic Librarianship, 25(1), 9-17.
• Saracevic, T., & Kantor, P. B. (1997). Studying the value of library and information services. Part II. Methodology and taxonomy. Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 48(6), 543-563. [UNC libraries]
• Kettinger, W.J., & Lee, C.C. (1997). Pragmatic perspectives on the measurement of information systems service quality. MIS Quarterly, 21(2), 223-240. [UNC libraries]
• Blackler, F. (1995). Knowledge, knowledge work and organizations: an overview and interpretation. Organization Studies, 16(6), 1021-1046. [UNC libraries]
• Pitt, L.F., Watson, R.T., & Kavan, C.B. (1995). Service quality: A measure of information systems effectiveness. MIS Quarterly, 19(2), 173-187. [UNC Libraries]
• Edwards, S., & Browne, M. (1995). Quality in information services: Do users and librarians differ in their expectations? Library & Information Science Research, 17(2), 163-182. [UNC libraries]

Information professions and the workforce

• Edwards, S. (2015, April). Mapping the library, archive, record, information and knowledge workforce. CILIP Update, 37. [SILS Library]
• Marshall, J.G. (2012). Workforce trends, issues and values. Information Services & Use, 32(3/4), 153-157. [UNC libraries]
• Moran, B.B., & Marchionini, G. (2012). Information Professionals 2050: Educating the next generation of information professionals. Information Services & Use, 32(3/4), 95-100. [UNC libraries via EBSCOhost]
• Hawk, S., Kaiser, K.M., Goles, T., Bullen, C.V., Simon, J.C., Beath, C.M., Gallagher, K.P., & Frampton, K. (2012). The information technology workforce: A comparison of critical skills of clients and service providers. Information Systems Management, 29(1), 2-12. [UNC libraries]
• King, J.L. (2011). CIO: Concept is over. Journal of Information Technology, 26, 129-138. [UNC libraries]
• Joseph, D., Ang, S., Chang, R.H.L., & Slaughter, S.A. (2010). Practical intelligence in IT: Assessing soft skills of IT professionals. Communications of the ACM, Virtual Extension, 53(2), 149-154. [UNC libraries]
• Bullen, C.V., Abraham, T., Gallagher, K., Simon, J.C., & Zwieg, P. (2009). IT workforce trends: Implications for curriculum and hiring. Communication of the Association for Information Systems, 24, Article 9. [UNC libraries]
• Stokker, J., & Hallam, G. (2009). The right person, in the right job, with the right skills, at the right time: A workforce-planning model that goes beyond metrics. LIbrary Management, 15(8/9), 561-571. [UNC libraries]
• Simon, J.C., Kaiser, K.M., Beath, C., Goles, T., & Gallagher, K. (2007). Information technology workforce skills: Does size matter? Information Systems Management, 24, 345-359. [UNC libraries]
• SIM Advocacy Research Team. (2006, March 6). The Information Technology Workforce: Trends and Implications 2005-2008. Prepared for the Society of Information Management. http://c.ymcdn.com/sites/www.simnet.org/resource/resmgr/community_files/2005-2008_it_workforce.pdf.
• Gallivan, M., Adya, M., Ahuja, M., Hoonakker, P., & Woszcaynski, A. (2006). Workforce diversity in the IT profession: Recognizing the resolving the shortage of women and minority employees. SIGMIS CPR '06: Proceedings of the 2006 ACM SIGMIS CPR Conference on Computer Personnel Research, 44-45. [UNC libraries]

Information organizations and their management; Information behaviors within organizational contexts

• Fayard, A.-L., & Weeks, J. (2014). Affordances for practice. Information & Organization, 24(4), 236-249. [UNC libraries]
• Karunakaran, A., Reddy, M.C., & Spence, P.R. (2013). Toward a model of collabortive information behavior in organizations. Journal of the American Society for Information Science & Technology, 64(12), 2437-2451. [UNC libraries]
• Gilstrap, D.L. (2009). A complex systems framework for research on leadership and organizational dynamics in academic libraries. portal: Libraries and the Academy, 9(1), 57-77. [UNC libraries]
• Choo, C.W. (2007). Information seeking in organizations: epistemic contexts and contests. Information Research, 12(2), Paper 298. http://informationr.net/ir/12-2/paper298.html.
• Garcia, A.C., Dawed, M.E., Kohne, M.L., Miller, F.M., & Growschwitz, S.F. (2006). Workplace studies and technological change. Annual Review of Information Science & Technology, 40, 393-437. [UNC libraries]
• Bharati, P., & Chaudhury, A. (2006). Studying the current status of technology adoption. Communications of the ACM, 49(10), 88-93. [UNC libraries]
• Moran, B.B. (2005). Continuity and change: The integration of Oxford University's libraries. Library Quarterly, 75(3), 262-294. [UNC libraries]
• Moore, J.E., & Love, M.S. (2005). IT professionals as organizational citizens. Communications of the ACM, 48(6), 88-93. [UNC libraries]
• Weick, K. (2001). Making Sense of the Organization. Oxford, UK: Blackwell Publishing. [Davis Library - HD57.7 .W447 2001]
• Orlikowski, W.J., & Barley, S.R. (2001). Technology and institutions: What can research on information technology and research on organizations learn from each other? MIS Quarterly, 25(2), 145-165. [UNC libraries]
• Kreitz, P.A. (2008). Best practices for managing organizational diversity. Journal of Academic Librarianship, 34(2), 101-120. [UNC libraries]Eason, K. (2001). Changing perspectives on the organizational consequences of information technology. Behaviour & Information Technology, 20(5), 323-328. [UNC libraries]
• Pfeffer, J. (1998). Seven practices of successful organizations. California Management Review, 40(2), 96-124. [UNC libraries, via EbscoHost]

Professional ethics

• For additional readings, see the reading list for INLS 584, Information Ethics, available via the SILS course schedule each semester taught.
• Floridi, L. (2008). Foundations of information ethics. In Himma, K.E., & Tavani, H.T. (eds.), The Handbook of Information and Computer Ethics. Wiley, 3-23.
• Mathiesen, K., & Fallis, D. (2008). Information ethics and the library profession. In Himma, K.E., & Tavani, H.T. (eds.), The Handbook of Information and Computer Ethics. Wiley, 221-244.
• Fallis, D. (2007). Information ethics for twenty-first century library professionals. Library Hi Tech, 25(1), 23-36. (Skim entire article; focus on two sections: The theories, and Limitations of the theories)
• Kizza, J.M. (2007). Ethics and the professions. In Ethical and Social Issues in the Information Age. London: Springer, 65-96. (Read sections 4.1, 4.2, and 4.4.1.)
• Huff, C. (1996). Unintentional power in the development of computer systems. Computers & Society, 26(4), 6-9.

Information policy

• Hansson, K., Belkacem, K., & Ekenberg, L. (2015). Open government and democracy: A research review. Social Science Computer Review, 33(5), 540-555.
• Zuboff, S. (2015). Big other: Surveillance capitalism and the prospects of an information civilization. Journal of Information Technology, 30(1), 75-89.
• Oltmann, S.M. (2015). Data, censorship, and politics: Analyzing the restricted flow of information in federal scientific policy development. Journal of the Association for Information Science & Technology, 66(1), 144-161.
• Duff, A.S. (2015). Needing NoDI (normal democratic information)? The problem of information poverty in post-industrial society. Information, Communication & Society, 18(1), 63-77.
• Newell, B.C. (2014). Technopolicing, surveillance, and citizen oversight: A neorepublication theory of liberty and information control. Government Information Quarterly, 31(3), 421-431.
• Zuiderwijk, A., & Janssen, M. (2014). Open data policies, their implementation and impact: A framework for comparison. Government Information Quarterly, 31(1), 17-29. [UNC libraries]
• Lips, A.M.B. (2013). Reconstructing, attributing and fixating citizen identities in digital-era government. Media, Culture & Society, 35(1), 61-70.
• Morris, D.S., & Morris, J.S. (2013). Digital inequality and participation in the political process: Real or imagined? Social Science Computer Review, 31(5), 589-600.
• Dobusch, L. (2012). The digital public domain: Relevance and regulation. Information & Communications Technology Law, 21(2), 179-202.
• Mager, A. (2012). Algorithmic ideology: How capitalist society shapes search engines. Information, Communication & Society, 15(5), 769-787.
• Dahlberg, L. (2011). Re-constructing digital democracy: An outline of four 'positions'. New Media & Society, 13(6), 855-872.
• Dawes, S.S. (2010). Stewardship and usefulness: Policy principles for information-based transparency. Government Information Quarterly, 27(4, special issue), 377-383. [UNC libraries]
• Relly, J.E., & Sabharwal, M. (2009). Perceptions of transparency of government policymaking: A cross-national study. Government Information Quarterly, 26(1, special issue), 148-157. [UNC libraries]
• Relyea, H.C. (2009). Congress and freedom of information: A retrospective and a look at a current issue. Government Information Quarterly, 26(3), 437-440.
• Relyea, H.C. (2009). Federal freedom of information policy: Highlights of recent developments. Government Information Quarterly, 26(2), 314-320.
• Martin, S., & Rabina, D. (2009). National security, individual privacy and public access to government-held information: The need for changing perspectives in a global environment. Information & Communications Technology Law, 18(1), 13-18.
• Britz, J.J. (2008). Making the global information society good: A social justice perspective on the ethical dimensions of the global information society. Journal of the American Society for Information Science & Technology, 59(7), 1171-1183.
• Strickland, L.S. (2005). Domestic security surveillance and civil liberties. Annual Review of Information Science & Technology, 39, 433-513.
• Halstuk, M.E., & Chamberlin, B.F. (2001). Open government in the digital age: The legislative history of how Congress established a right of public access to electronic information held by federal agencies. Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, 78(1), 45-63.

Information needs, seeking, and use; Information sources

• Chatman, E. (1999). A theory of life in the round. Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 50(3), 207-217. [UNC libraries]
• Erdelez, S. (2004). Investigation of information encountering in the controlled research environment. Information Processing & Management, 40(6), 1013-1025. [UNC libraries]
• Zhang, P., & Soergel, D. (2014). Toward a comprehensive model of the cognitive process and mechanisms of individual sensemaking. Journal of the Association for Information Science & Technology, 65(9), 1733-1756. [UNC libraries]
• Ingwersen, P. (1982). Search procedures in the library--Analyzed from the cognitive point of view. Journal of Documentation, 38(3), 165-191. [SILS Library; also available via Course Tools: Resources on class Sakai site]
• Case, D.O. (2006). Information behavior. Annual Review of Information Science & Technology, 40, 293-327. [UNC libraries]
• Hert, C.A. (1997). What do we know about user behavior on information retrieval systems? In Understanding Information Retrieval Interactions: Theoretical and Practical Implications. Greenwich, CT: Ablex, 13-50. [SILS Library - ZA4060 .H67 1997]
• Wildemuth, B.M. (2004). The effects of domain knowledge on search tactic formulation.  Journal of the American Society for Information Science & Technology, 55(3), 246-258. [UNC libraries]
• Day, R.E. (2011). Death of the user: Reconceptualizing subjects, objects, and their relations. Journal of the American Society for Information Science & Technology, 62(1), 78-88. [UNC libraries]

Interactive information retrieval; Information retrieval; Human-computer interaction

• Croft, W.B., Metzler, D., & Strohman, T. (2010). Search Engines: Information Retrieval in Practice. Boston: Addison Wesley. [SILS reserves - TK5105.884 .C765 2010; assigned chapters available in Resources: Class Readings on class Sakai site]
  • Chapter 1, Search engines and information retrieval, p1-12
  • Chapter 2, Architecture of a search engine, p13-30
• Borlund, P. (2010). The cognitive viewpoint: The essence of information retrieval interaction. In Larsen, B. (ed.), The Janus Faced Scholar: A Festschrift in Honour of Peter Ingwersen. Copenhagen: Royal School of Library and Information Science, 23-34. http://vbn.aau.dk/files/90357690/JanusFacedScholer_Festschrift_PeterIngwersen_2010.pdf
• Croft, W. B. (ed.) (2000). Advances in Information Retrieval: Recent Research from the Center for Intelligent Information Retrieval. Boston: Kluwer. [UNC libraries, search in NetLibrary]
  • Chapter 1, Combining approaches to information retrieval, 1-36
• Hjørland, B. (2010). The foundation of the concept of relevance. Journal of the American Society for Information Science & Technology, 61(2), 217-237. [UNC libraries]
• Wleklinski, J. M. (2005). Studying google scholar: Wall to wall coverage? Online, 29(3), 22-26. [UNC libraries, EBSCOhost]
• Järvelin, K. (2007). An analysis of two approaches in information retrieval: From frameworks to study designs. Journal of the American Society for Information Science & Technology, 58(7), 971-986. [UNC libraries]
• Spärck-Jones, K., Robertson, S.E., & Sanderson, M. (2007). Ambiguous requests: Implications for retrieval tests, systems and theories. SIGIR Forum, 41(2), 8-17. [ACM Digital Library]
• Smith, C.L. (2015). Domain-independent search expertise: A description of procedural knowledge gained during guided instruction. Journal of the Association for Information Science & Technology, 66(7), 1388-1405. [UNC libraries]

Information use and sharing

• Hartter, J., Ryan, S.J., MacKenzie, C.A., Parker, J.N., & Strasser, C.A. (2013). Spatially explicit data: Stewardship and ethical challenges in science. PLOS Biology, 11(9), article e1001634.
• Tenopir, C., Sandusky, R.J., Allard, S., & Birch, B. (2014). Research data management services in academic research libraries and perceptions of librarians. Library & Information Science Research, 36(2), 84-90. [UNC libraries]
• Springer, M., Dulabahn, B., Michel, P., Natanson, B., Reser, D., Woodward, D., & Zinkham, H. (2008). For the Common Good: The Library of Congress Flickr Photo Project. Library of Congress. http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/flickr_report_final.pdf.
• Lusoli, Wainer; Miltgen, Caroline. (2009). Young People and Emerging Digital Services: An Exploratory Survey on Motivations, Perceptions and Acceptance of Risks. Executive Summary. European Commission, Joint Research Centre, Institute for Prospective Technological Studies, EUR 23765 EN, 9-11. http://ftp.jrc.es/EURdoc/JRC50089.pdf.
• Palmer, C.L. (1999). Structures and strategies of interdisciplinary science. Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 50(3), 242-253. [UNC libraries]
• Cronin, B., & Meho, L.I. (2008). The shifting balance of intellectual trade in information studies. Journal of the American Society for Information Science & Technology, 59(4), 551-564. [UNC libraries]

Social media

• Parameswaran, M., & Whinston, A.B. (2007). Research issues in social computing. Journal of the AIS, 8(6), article 1. (Read the first three sections, p337-343. [UNC libraries]
• Wang, Fei-Yue; Zeng, Daniel; Carley, Kathleen M.; Mao, Wenji. (2007). Social computing: From social informatics to social intelligence. IEEE Intelligent Systems, 22(2), 79-83. [UNC libraries]
• Bejune, M., & Ronan, J. (2008). Social Software in Libraries: Executive Summary. Association of Research Libraries, SPEC Kit 304, 11-16. http://www.arl.org/bm~doc/spec304web.pdf.

Scholarly communication and its impact

• Kousha, K., Thelwall, M., &U Rezaie, S. (2011). Assessing the citation impact of books: The role of Google Books, Google Scholar, and Scopus. Journal of the American Society for Information Science & Technology, 62(11), 2147-2164. [UNC libraries]
• Blessinger, K., & Hrycaj, P. (2010). Highly cited articles in library and information science: An analysis of content and authorship trends. Library & Information Science Research, 32(2), 156-162. [UNC libraries]
• Browman, H.I., & Stergiou, K.I. (eds.) (2008). The use and misuse of bibliometric indices in evaluating scholarly performance. Ethics in Science and Environmental Politics, 8(1). Theme issue. [http://www.int-res.com/abstracts/esep/v8/n1/]
• Cronin, B., & Meho, L. (2006). Using the h-index to rank influential information scientists. Journal of the American Society for Information Science & Technology, 57(9), 1275-1278. [UNC libraries]
• Bollen, J., Van de Sompel, H., Smith, J.A., & Luce, R. (2005). Toward alternative metrics of journal impact: A comparison of download and citation data. Information Processing & Management, 41(6), 1419-1440. [UNC libraries]
• Crane, D.  Invisible Colleges. Chicago:  Univ. of Chicago Press, 1972. [Davis Library, Undergrad Library - Q175.5 .C7 (1988)]

ADDITIONAL READINGS ON SKILLS THAT NOVICE RESEARCHERS SHOULD ACQUIRE

The role of theory; the variety of methods

• Jaccard, J., & Jacoby, J. (2010). Theory Contructino and Model-Building Skills: A Practical Guide for Social Scientists. New York: Guilford Press. [SILS reserves - H62 .J29 2010]
• Budd, J.M. (2007). What we say about research: Rhetoric and argument in library and information science. Library Quarterly, 76(2), 220-240. [UNC libraries]
• Gregor, S. (2006). The nature of theory in information systems. MIS Quarterly, 30(3), 611-642. Read pages 611-622. [UNC libraries, EBSCOhost]
• Kim, S.J., & Jeong, D.Y. (2006). An analysis of the development and use of theory in library and information science research articles. Library & Information Science Research, 28(4), 548-562. [UNC libraries]
• Bates, M. (2005). An introduction to metatheories, theories, and models. In Fisher, K. E., Erdelez, S., & McKechnie, L. (eds.), Theories of Information Behavior. Medford, N.J. : Published for the American Society for Information Science and Technology by Information Today, 1-24. [SILS Library - ZA3075.T465 2005]
• Pettigrew, K., & McKechnie, L. (2001). The use of theory in information science research. Journal of the American Society for Information Science & Technology, 52(1), 62-73. [UNC libraries]
• Glazier, J.D. (1997). Appendix A: Philosophical presuppositions of research. In Powell, R.R., Basic Research Methods for Librarians. 3rd ed. Ablex Publishing. [SILS Reserves - Z669.7 .P68 1997]
• Poole, H. (1985). Theories of the Middle Range. Norwood, NJ: Ablex. [SILS reserves - Z669.7 .P66 1985]

Developing a research question

• Bent, M., Gannon-Leary, P., & Webb, J. (2008). Information literacy in a researcher's learning life: The seven ages of research. New Review of Information Networking, 13(2), 81-99. [UNC libraries]
• Krathwohl, D.R., & Smith, N.L. (2005). The description of the problem. In How to Prepare a Dissertation Proposal: Suggestions for Students in Education and the Social and Behavioral Sciences. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 45-74. [SILS Reserves - LB2369 .K723 2005]
• Booth, A. (2006). Clear and present questions: Formulating questions for evidence based practice. Library Hi Tech, 24(3), 355-368. [UNC libraries]
• Koufogiannakis, D., & Crumley, E. (2006). Research in librarianship: Issues to consider. Library Hi Tech, 24(3), 324-340.
• Wilson, T.D. (2002). 'Information science' and research methods. Paper to appear in Slovak, in Knižnicná a informacná veda (Library and Information Science), published by the Department of Library and Information Science, Comenius University, Bratislava, Slovak Republic. Updated 26th March 2002. http://informationr.net/tdw/publ/papers/slovak02.html.
• Bryman, A. (2007). The research question in social research: What is its role? International Journal of Social Research Methodology, 10(1), 5-20.

Reviewing the literature

• Boell, S.K., & Cecez-Kecmanovic, D. (2015). On being 'systematic' in literature reviews in IS. Journal of Information Technology, 30, 161-173.
• Jaidka, K., Khoo, C.S.G., & Na, J.-C. (2013). Literature review writing: How information is selected and transformed. Aslib Proceedings, 65(3), 303-325. [UNC libraries]

Conducting your research; Research and its role in academic life

• Gardner, S.K. (2009). Conceptualizing success in doctoral education: Perspectives of faculty in seven disciplines. Review of Higher Education, 32(3), 383-406. [UNC libraries]
• Gosling, P. (2006). Dealing with setbacks. In Mastering Your PhD: Survival and Success in the Doctoral Years and Beyond. Berlin: Springer, 43-49 (Chapter 7). [Davis - LB2386 .G67 2006; also available as an e-book]
• Marshall, S. (2004). Time management. In Your PhD Companion. Oxford: How To Books, 57-60. [Davis - LB2386 .M377 2004]
• Bichel, R., & Cheney, D. (2004). The information cycle: How today's events are tomorrow's information. http://www.libraries.psu.edu/instruction/infocycle/infocycle.html.
• Axtell, J. (1998). (Mis)understanding academic work. In The Pleasures of Academe: A Celebration & Defense of Higher Education. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 3-26. [SILS Reserve - LA227.4 .A98 1998]

Research ethics

• Churchill, H., & Sanders, T. (2007). Managing the ethics of academia. In Getting Your PhD: A Practical Insider's Guide. Los Angeles: Sage, 45-57. [SILS reserve - LB2386 .C58 2007]
• Committee on Science, Engineering, and Public Policy, National Academy of Sciences; National Academy of Engineering; Institute of Medicine. (1995). On Being a Scientist: Responsible Conduct in Research. Washington, DC: National Academy Press.

Developing a research proposal (including a proposal for grant funding)

• Churchill, H., & Sanders, T. (2007). Formulating a research question. In Getting Your PhD: A Practical Insider's Guide. Los Angeles: Sage, 22-32. [SILS reserve - LB2386 .C58 2007]
• Eve, J. (2008). Writing a research proposal: Planning and communicating your research ideas effectively. Library and Information Research, 32(102), 18-28. [http://www.lirg.org.uk/lir/ojs/index.php/lir/article/view/92/136]
• Locke, L.F., Spirduso, W.W., & Silverman, S.J. (1992). Developing proposals: Some common problems. In Galliers, R. (ed.), Information Systems Research: Issues, Methods and Practical Guidelines. Oxford: Blackwell Scientific, 182-207. See, especially, the Figure. [SILS Library - T58.6 .I515 1992; also available via Course Tools: Resources on class Sakai site]
• Bargar, R.R., & Duncan, J.K. (1982). Cultivating creative endeavor in doctoral research. Journal of Higher Education, 53(1), 1-31. [UNC libraries]
• Metoyer-Duran, C., & Hernon, P. (1994). Problem statements in research proposals and published research: A case study of researchers' viewpoints. Library & Information Science Research, 16(2), 105-118. [SILS Library]

Presenting your work orally

Writing scholarly publications (posters, conference papers, journal articles)

• Creedy, J. (2008). Writing a research paper. In Research Without Tears: From the First Ideas to Published Output. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar Pub., 25-49. [Davis - LB2369 .C72 2008]
• Churchill, H., & Sanders, T. (2007). Writing up and writer's block [and] Papers and publishing. In Getting Your PhD: A Practical Insider's Guide. Los Angeles: Sage, 73-94. [SILS reserve - LB2386 .C58 2007]
• Clarke, R. (2006). Plagiarism by academics: More complex than it seems. Journal of the Association for Information Systems, 7(2), 91-121. [UNC libraries]
• Kock, N., & Davison, R. (2003). Dealing with plagiarism in the information systems research community: A look at factors that drive plagiarism and ways to address them. MIS Quarterly, 27(4), 511-532. [UNC libraries, via EBSCOhost]

Collaboration; Interdisciplinary research

• Klein, J.T. (2010). A taxonomy of interdisciplinarity. In Frodeman, R., Klein, J.T., Mitcham, C., & Holbrook, J.B. (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Interdisciplinarity. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 15-30. [Davis - BD255 .O94 2010]
• Birnholtz, J.P. (2007). When do researchers collaborate? Toward a model of collaboration propensity. Journal of the American Society for Information Science & Technology, 58(14), 2226-2239. [UNC libraries]
• Bronstein, L. R. (2003). A model for interdisciplinary collaboration. Social Work, 48(3), 297-306. [UNC libraries, EBSCOhost]
• Kouzes, R.T., Myers, J.D., & Wulf, W.A. (1996). Collaboratories: Doing science on the internet. IEEE Computer, 29(8), 40-46. [UNC libraries]
• Pierce, S. (1999). Boundary crossing in research literature as a means of interdisciplinary information transfer. Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 50(3), 271-279. [UNC libraries]

Diversity, inclusiveness, cultural competency

• Oxley, R. (2013). iDiversity and LIS Education: Student-based Groups Promoting Cultural Competence as a Vision for the Profession. Library Quarterly: Information, Community, Policy, 83, 236-242.
• Jaeger, P.T., Subramaniam, M., Jones, C.B., & Bertot, J.C. (2011). Diversity and LIS education: Inclusion and the age of information. Journal of Education for Library and Information Science, 52(3), 166-183. [UNC libraries]
• Subramaniam, M., & Jaeger, P. (2011). Weaving diversity into LIS: An examination of diversity course offerings in iSchool programs. Education for Information, 28(1), 109-127. [UNC libraries]
• Jaeger, P.T., Bertot, J.C., & Franklin, R.E. (2010). Diversity, inclusion, and underrepresented populations in LIS research. Library Quarterly, 80(2), 175-181. [UNC libraries]
• Subramaniam, M., & Jaeger, P.T. (2010). Modeling inclusive practice?: Attracting diverse faculty and future faculty to the information workforce. Library Trends, 59(1/2), 109-127. [UNC libraries, via Project Muse]
• Mestre, L.S. (2010). Librarians working with diverse populations: What impact does cultural competency training have on their efforts? Journal of Academic Librarianship, 36(6), 479-488. [UNC libraries]
• Overall, P.M. (2010). The effect of service learning on LIS students' understanding of diversity issues related to equity of access. Journal of Education for Library and Information Science, 51(4), 251-266. [UNC libraries]
• Adkins, D., & Espinal, I. (2004). The diversity mandate. Library Journal, 45(2), 149-161. [http://lj.libraryjournal.com/2004/04/careers/the-diversity-mandate/]

Refereeing; Peer reviewing

• Bornmann, L. (2011). Scientific peer review. Annual Review of Information Science & Technology, 45, 199-245. [UNC libraries]
• Bornmann, L., & Daniel, H.-D. (2010). The manuscript reviewing process: Empirical research on review requests, review sequences, and decision rules in peer review. Library & Information Science Research, 32(1), 5-12. [UNC libraries]
• Schwartz, C., & Hernon, P. (2010). Some thoughts on peer review. Library & Information Science Research, 32(1), 13-15. [UNC libraries]
• Lepak, D. (2009). Editor's comments: What is good reviewing? Academy of Management Review, 34(3), 375-381. [UNC libraries]
• Marchionini, G. (2008). Editorial: Reviewer merits and review control in an age of electronic manuscript management systems. ACM Transactions on Information Systems, 26(4), Article 25. [ACM Digital Library]
• Edwards, P.M. (2007). Developing as a writer: Refereeing manuscripts for peer-reviewed LIS journals. College & Research Libraries News, 68(10): 630-631. [Available online or in Course Tools: Resources on class Sakai site]
• Baruch, Y., Sullivan, S.E., & Schepmyer, H.N. (2006). Winning Reviews: A Guide for Evaluating Scholarly Writing. Basingstoke, England: Palgrave Macmillan. [Davis Library - PN162 .B36 2006]
• Kitchin, R., & Fuller, D. (2005). Appendix 3: Refereeing for journals, publishers and conferences. In Academic's Guide to Publishing. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE, 170-175. [UNC libraries e-book; Davis Library - Z286.S37 K58 2005]
• Koh, C. E. (2003). IS journal review process: A survey on IS research practices and journal review issues. Information & Management, 40(8), 743-756. [UNC libraries]
• Lee, A.S. (1995). Reviewing a manuscript for publication. Journal of Operations Management, 13(1), 87-92. [UNC libraries]

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