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

INLS 500, Human Information Interactions, Fall 2014

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Please note: Unless otherwise indicated, the annotations below each article are the insights of Barbara Wildemuth, taken from her Spring INLS500 class site. I've kept them intact so that you may benefit from them also.

INTRODUCTION / BASIC CONCEPTS

1: Trends in human information interaction research

2:Theoretical perspectives and basic concepts

3: Cognitive approaches to information behaviors

4: Alternatives: Affective and physical approaches


INFORMATION NEEDS

5: Experiencing an information need

6: Expressing information needs

7: Literature searching review lab

8: Studying/analyzing information needs


INFORMATION SEEKING

9: Selection of information sources

10: Interactive information retrieval as part of the information seeking process

11: Assessment of information quality/value

12: Relevance judgments


INFORMATION USE

13: Ways of using information

14: Re-using and re-finding information

15: Information poverty and information overload


THE IMPACT OF CONTEXT ON INFORMATION SEEKING AND USE

16-17:Domain, disciplinary, and organizational context

18: Everyday life information seeking

19: Incidental information acquisition; Browsing and serendipity

20: Collaborative search and delegated/imposed queries


INTERMEDIATION AND DIS-INTERMEDIATION IN INFORMATION SEEKING

21: Human intermediaries: Reference and help desk services

22: Information retrieval systems as intermediaries

23: Social intermediation: Recommender systems, social Q&A, etc.


SCHOLARLY COMMUNICATION

24: Scholarly work and the role of scholarly communication

25: Metrics of scholarly productivity

26: The future of scholarly communication

27: The invisible college: discovery and representation; Diffusion theory and how it applies to the diffusion of information and information technologies

28: Scholarly publishing as an industry: Traditional and open access models; Intellectual property issues


COURSE WRAP-UP

29: Course wrap-up and summary


Creative Commons LicenseThis INLS 500 website, UNC-CH, 2014, is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License, and benefitted from input received from Barbara Wildemuth, Deborah Barreau, Laura Sheble, Earl Bailey, Ruth Palmquist, and Kaitlin Costello. Address all comments and questions to Kathy Brennan at kbrennan@unc.edu. This page was last modified on May 24, 2014, by Kathy Brennan.