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: Literature searching lab: Bring your laptop to class

5: Alternatives: Affective and physical approaches

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INFORMATION NEEDS

6: Experiencing an information need

7: Expressing information needs

8: Studying/analyzing information needs

Additional studies of students, scholars, and other professionals:

A series of longitudinal studies of scholarly information behaviors:

Studies of other groups or everyday life information seeking:

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INFORMATION SEEKING

9: Selection of information sources

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

I've listed here a selection of the many studies of online search behaviors. They've been selected to give you an idea of the range of studies that have been conducted.

11: Assessment of information quality/value

12: Relevance judgments

These readings on relevance are arranged in chronological order, in case you want to track through the main themes in that way. They include mostly foundational/conceptual articles, plus a few empirical studies (especially among the more recent articles).

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INFORMATION USE

13: Ways of using information

14: Re-using and re-finding information

15: Information poverty and information overload

Additional studies by Chatman:

Additional readings related to information poverty:

Additional readings related to information overload:

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THE IMPACT OF CONTEXT ON INFORMATION SEEKING AND USE

16-17:Domain, disciplinary, and organizational context

This first set of articles provide general discussions of the effect of context on information behaviors.

This next set of readings focuses on disciplinary and/or domain differences and their effects on information behaviors.

This third set of articles focuses on the effects of organizational context on information behaviors.

This final set of articles considers a variety of other types of contextual influences on information behaviors.

18: Everyday life information seeking

These first items are more conceptual - additional explanations of this idea.

This list includes some examples of studies of everyday life information seeking in a variety of contexts.

19: Incidental information acquisition; Browsing and serendipity

20: Collaborative search and delegated/imposed queries

This first set of papers focuses on academic settings where an information need is delegated or imposed by someone other than the information seeker.

This second set of papers are similar, but the delegation occurred in a non-academic setting.

This third set of papers is a selection of the many studies that have been conducted on health information seeking, where the caregiver plays an important role in acquiring information on behalf of the patient.

This fourth set of papers focuses on collaborative search and collaborative information seeking.

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INTERMEDIATION AND DIS-INTERMEDIATION IN INFORMATION SEEKING

21: Human intermediaries: Reference and help desk services

These first three studies focus on help provided for use of technologies.

These two papers examine the possibilities for automated intermediation (dis-intermediation) in a library.

A number of studies have examined library reference services. These were selected because they directly examine the interaction between the user and the librarian.

22: Information retrieval systems as intermediaries

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

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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

The citations below focus on social network theory and analysis methods, rather than on bibliometrics and its variations.

The citations in this list are to studies that have used diffusion theory to frame the research question.

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

Basic explanation of fair use by Will Cross (a SILS grad) at the NCSU Copyright and Digital Scholarship Center

http://mediasite.online.ncsu.edu/online/Play/27bf3d0a177749c3b689595576268e711d

This first set of articles includes overviews of open access publishing and the associated issues.

This second set of articles focuses on pricing and economic issues.

This third set of articles focuses specifically on studies of author attitudes toward open access publishing.

This fourth set of articles examines impact of articles published in open access versus traditional journals.

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COURSE WRAP-UP

29: Course wrap-up and summary

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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 Amelia Gibson at angibson@email.unc.edu. This page was last modified on November 20, 2014, by Amelia N. Gibson.