INLS 500 Section 1, Human Information Interactions - Fall 2009

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 24.

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 27.

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 3.

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 3.

Borgman, C.L. (2000). Digital libraries and the continuum of scholarly communication. Journal of Documentation, 56 (4): 412-430 [e-journals, bound journals, Google scholar] Scheduled: October 27.

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 8.

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. Scheduled: September 15.

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] Scheduled: September 24.

Heinstrom, J. (2006). Psychological factors behind incidental information acquisition. Library & Information Science Research,28 (4): 579-594. Scheduled: September 29.

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 1.

Lee, Min Kyung et al. (2009). The Snackbot: documenting the design of a robot for long-term human-robot interaction. ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human Robot Interaction, pages 7-14. [Available from the ACM Digital Library] Scheduled: October 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: October 29.

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 19.

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 17

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 22.

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 3.

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: October 15.

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 10.

Shedroff, N. (2000). Information interaction design: A unified field theory of design.http://www.nathan.com/thoughts/unified. Scheduled: September 1.

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: October 29.

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 8.

Tannen, D. (1995, Sep./Oct.). The power of talk: who gets heard and why. Harvard Business Review,73:138-148. (e-reserve) Scheduled:November 5.

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 1.

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 24.

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 13.