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: The annotations provided below many of these articles are a combination of insights from Barbara Wildemuth, other SILS faculty, and me. Please be sure to read through them carefully, as they often contain additional instructions related to the reading.

INTRODUCTION / BASIC CONCEPTS

1, Tuesday, August 19: Trends in human information interaction research

2, Thursday, August 21: Theoretical perspectives and basic concepts

3, Tuesday, August 26: Cognitive approaches to information behaviors

4, Thursday, August 28: Alternatives: Affective approaches


INFORMATION NEEDS

5, Tuesday, September 2: Experiencing an information need

6, Thursday, September 4: Expressing information needs

7, Tuesday, September 9: Literature searching review lab (some practice in expressing your own informatin needs)

8, Thursday, September 11: Studying/analyzing information needs


INFORMATION SEEKING

9, Tuesday, September 16: Selection of information sources

10, Thursday, September 18: Interactive information retrieval as part of the information seeking process

11, Tuesday, September 23: Assessment of information quality/value

12, Thursday, September 25: Relevance judgments


INFORMATION USE

13, Tuesday, September 30: Ways of using information

14, Thursday, October 2: Re-using and re-finding information; Information poverty and information overload


THE IMPACT OF CONTEXT ON INFORMATION SEEKING AND USE

15, Tuesday, October 7:Domain, disciplinary, and organizational context

16, Thursday, October 9: Domain, disciplinary, and organizational context, continued

17, Tuesday, October 14: Everyday life information seeking

---- Thursday, October 16: Fall Break (no class) ----

18, Tuesday, October 21: Incidental information acquisition; Browsing and serendipity

19, Thursday, October 23: Collaborative search and delegated/imposed queries


INTERMEDIATION AND DIS-INTERMEDIATION IN INFORMATION SEEKING

20, Tuesday, October 28: Human intermediaries: Reference and help desk services

21, Thursday, October 30: Information retrieval systems as intermediaries

22, Tuesday, November 4: Social intermediation: Recommender systems, social Q&A, etc.


SCHOLARLY COMMUNICATION

23, Thursday, November 6: Scholarly work and the role of scholarly communication

24, Tuesday, November 11: Metrics of scholarly productivity

25, Thursday, November 13: The future of scholarly communication

26, Tuesday, November 18: The invisible college: discovery and representation; Diffusion theory and how it applies to the diffusion of information and information technologies

27, Thursday, November 20: Scholarly publishing as an industry: Traditional and open access models; Intellectual property issues


THE CURRENT FUTURE OF INFORMATION

28, Tuesday, November 25: A new era of information?

---- Thursday, November 27: Thanksgiving Break (no class) ----

29, Tuesday, December 2: Course wrap-up and summary


FINAL CLASS MEETING

Thursday, December 11, 12:00pm (noon): Assignment 4, In-Depth Analysis of an Example of Scholarly Communication is due