INLS 110-037: CIP - ISSUES AND TRENDS IN LIS

Your first task will be to conduct an interview with another member of the class about his/her personal information use habits, general background and relevant and/or interesting past experiences. In an assigned group of 4-5 people, each of you is to interview the person who comes next after you alphabetically by last name. That is, The person in the group whose name is alphabetically last is to interview the one whose name is alphabetically first. (e.g., A interviews B, B interviews C, C interviews D, D interviews A).

In your interviews, collect some factual data like name, local address. email and phone number (although each individual has the option not to share address and phone if they choose). Some other suggestions for what you may want to ask your interviewee are as follows: Find out about whether and where your interviewee has worked in the past or if he/she is working now. Learn about how your interviewee finds and uses information. Pursue some additional background information that you find of personal or professional interest (for example, hobbies, pets, children, career aspirations, unusual past events that happened to your interviewee or that he/she was a part of). Collect enough information so that you can write up an interesting interview on one page in a style suitable for inclusion in a newsletter. Create a word-processed document or a web page for your interview report.

Meet as a group to compare notes from your interviews and create a spreadsheet showing some of the things you have in common and some of the places where you differ. Select 4-5 interesting categories to show simularities and differences. (See example below)

Create a visual to show the class (e.g., poster, Power Point slide, web page, transparency) and select one of your group to use it to introduce other members to the class. Plan to spend about 10 minutes on your introductions.

The interview reports and the spreadsheet information are to be stapled together and turned in as a package. Submit the visual from the group. Half your grade will be based on your interview report and the other half on the ingeniousness with which your group picked interesting categories for the introductions.

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Revised September 9, 2005.