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

INLS 500, Human Information Interactions, Spring 2014

Schedule

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INTRODUCTION / BASIC CONCEPTS

1, Thursday, January 9: Trends in human information interaction research

2, Tuesday, January 14: Theoretical perspectives and basic concepts

3, Thursday, January 16: Cognitive approaches to information behaviors

4, Tuesday, January 21: Alternatives: Affective approaches


INFORMATION NEEDS

5, Thursday, January 23: Experiencing an information need

6, Tuesday, January 28: Expressing information needs

7, Thursday, January 30: Literature searching review lab (some practice in expressing your own informatin needs)

8, Tuesday, February 4: Studying/analyzing information needs


INFORMATION SEEKING

9, Thursday, February 6: Selection of information sources

10, Tuesday, February 11: Interactive information retrieval as part of the information seeking process

11, Thursday, February 13: Class cancelled due to adverse weather

12, Tuesday, February 18: Assessment of information quality/value

13, Thursday, February 20: Relevance judgments


INFORMATION USE

14, Tuesday, February 25: Ways of using information

15, Thursday, February 27: Re-using and re-finding information; Information poverty and information overload


THE IMPACT OF CONTEXT ON INFORMATION SEEKING AND USE

16, Tuesday, March 4:Domain, disciplinary, and organizational context

17, Thursday, March 6: Domain, disciplinary, and organizational context, continued

Tuesday, March 11, & Thursday, March 13: Spring Break (no class)

18, Tuesday, March 18:Everyday life information seeking

19, Thursday, March 20: Incidental information acquisition; Browsing and serendipity

20, Tuesday, March 25: Collaborative search and delegated/imposed queries


INTERMEDIATION AND DIS-INTERMEDIATION IN INFORMATION SEEKING

21, Thursday, March 27: Human intermediaries: Reference and help desk services

22, Tuesday, April 1: Information retrieval systems as intermediaries

23, Thursday, April 3: Social intermediation: Recommender systems, social Q&A, etc.


SCHOLARLY COMMUNICATION

24, Tuesday, April 8: Scholarly work and the role of scholarly communication

25, Thursday, April 10: Metrics of scholarly productivity

26, Tuesday, April 15: The future of scholarly communication

27, Thursday, April 17: The invisible college: discovery and representation; Diffusion theory and how it applies to the diffusion of information and information technologies

28, Tuesday, April 22: Scholarly publishing as an industry: Traditional and open access models; Intellectual property issues


COURSE WRAP-UP

29, Thursday, April 24: Course wrap-up and summary

Friday, May 2, 8am: Assignment 4, In-Depth Analysis of an Example of Scholarly Communication is due


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