INLS 500 Section 1, Human Information Interactions - Fall 2011

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.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 22.

Bates, M.J. (1999). The invisible substrate of information science. Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 50 (12): 1043-1050. (e-journals) 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: September 8.

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:September 8.

Chatman, Elfreda (1991). Life in a Small World: Application of Gratification Theory to Information-Seeking Behavior. Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 47(3):438-449. Scheduled: September 13.

Counts, S. et al. (2010). Mobile social networking as information ground: a case study.  Library and Information Science Research, 32 (2): 98-115. Scheduled: September 29.

Hahn, T.B., Burright, M., and Duggan, H.N. (2011). Has the revolution in scholarly publication lived up to its promise? Bulletin of the American Society for Information Science & Technology,  (June/July). Scheduled: August 30.

Halverson, C.A., Erickson, T. and Ackerman, M.S. (2004). Behind the help desk: Evolution of a knowledge management system in a large organization. CSCW '04: 304-313. (Scheduled: October 13)

Heinstrom, J. (2006). Psychological factors behind incidental information acquisition. Library & Information Science Research,28 (4): 579-594. Scheduled: October 4.

Jarkko, K. & Savolainen, R. (2007). Relationships between information seeking and context: a qualitative study of internet searching and the goals of personal development.  Library & information science research, 29 (1): 47-69.  Scheduled: November 8.

Klemmer, Scott R., Hartman, Bjorn, and Takayama, Leila (2006). How bodies matter: Five themes for interaction design. Proceedings of the 6th Conference on Designing Interactive Systems, pages 140-149. [Available in electronic format through the ACM Digital Library], Scheduled: September 6.

Leggett, J.J. and Shipman, F.M. III (2004). Directions for hypertext research: exploring the design space for interactive scholarly communication. HT'04, August 9-13, Santa Cruz, CA. [available through the ACM Digital Library Portal]. Scheduled: September 1.

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. [e-journals: ACM Digital Library] Scheduled: November 17.

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 15

Litman, J. (2006). Lawful personal use. Texas Law Review. 85:1-50. (Scheduled: November 22)

Nicholas, D., Jamali M., H. R., Huntington, P., and Rowlands, I. (2005). In their very own words: authors and scholarly journal publishing. Learned Publishing, 18:212-220. (Scheduled: August 30)

Preece, J. (2001). Sociability and usability in online communities: determining and measuring success.  Behaviour & Information Technology, 20 (5): 347-356. Scheduled: October 25.

Reddy, Madhu C. and Jansen, Bernard J. (2008). A model for understanding collaborative information behavior in context: A study of two healthcare teams. Information Processing & Management, 44 (1):256-273. Scheduled: September 27.

Rogers, E.M. (1995). Elements of diffusion.Diffusion of Innovations. 4th ed. New York: Macmillan. [HM101 .R57 1995].Chapter 1, pages 1-37. [Blackboard, Pam box, shelf] Scheduled: November 3.

Saracevic, T. (1999). Information science.  Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 50 (12): 1051-1063.  Scheduled: August 25.

Savolainen, R. (2008). Source preferences in the context of seeking problem-specific information. Information Processing & Management, 44 (1): 274-293. (SILS journals; online campus e-journals). Scheduled:September 15.

Schwartz, L.M., Woloshin, S., and Baczek, L. (2002). Media coverage of scientific meetings: Too much too soon? Journal of the American Medical Association, 287 (21): 2859-2863. http://jama.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/fall/287/21/2859. Scheduled: September 1.

Stvilia, B., Twidale, M.B., Smith, L.C., and Gasser, L. (2008). Information quality work organization in Wikipedia. Journal of the American Society for Information Science & Technology, 59 (6):983-1001. Scheduled: October 27.

Tannen, D. (1995, Sep./Oct.). The power of talk: who gets heard and why. Harvard Business Review,73:138-148. (e-reserve) Scheduled: November 10.

Taylor, R.S. (1968). Question-negotiation and information seeking in libraries. College & Research Libraries,29(3):178-194 (p. 181-182, esp.) [e-reserve, Pam box, bound journals] Scheduled: October 6.

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: November 1.

Yuan, X., et al. (2010). Investigating information retrieval support techniques for different information-seeking strategies.  Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 61 (8): 1543-63. Scheduled: September 20.

OPTIONAL

Amento, B.L. (2000). Does authority mean quality? Predicting expert quality ratings of web documents.  (ACM  portal). Topic scheduled: October 27.

Chatman, E. (1996). The impoverished life-world of outsiders.  Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 47 (3): 193-206.  Topic scheduled: September 13.

Choo, C.W., Detlor, B., and Turnbull, D. (2000). Information seeking on the Web: an integrated model of browsing and searching. Firstmonday, 5 (2): http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issues_2/choo/index.html. Topic scheduled: September 20.

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. [e-journals, also current periodicals] Topic scheduled: September 29.

Kuhlthau, C.C. & Tama, S.L. (2001). Information search process of lawyers: A call for 'just for me' information services. Journal of Documentation, 57 (1): 25-43.  Topic scheduled: September 27.

Nasser, R. and Abouchedid (2001). Problems and the epistemology of electronic publishing in the Arab World: the case of Lebanon.  Firstmonday, 6 (9). http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue6_9/nasser/ . Topic scheduled: August 30.

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 8.

Savolainen, R. (2009). Small world and information grounds as contexts of information seeking and sharing.  Library and Information Science Research, 31 (1):38-45. Topic scheduled: September 13.

Schaller, S. (2011). Information needs of LGBTQ college students. Libri, 61 (2):100-115.  Topic scheduled: September 13.

Shedroff, N. (2000). Information interaction design: A unified field theory of design.http://www.nathan.com/thoughts/unified. Scheduled: September 6.