Overview of course

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• First Day "Quiz"

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• Case, D.O. (2012). Information behavior: An introduction. In Looking for information: A survey of research on information seeking, needs, and behavior (3rd ed.) (pp. 3-14). London: Emerald Group Publishing Limited.
  Freely available via Google books

  *Note: If the Google Books reader doesn't provide you access to the full reading, access the chapter reading here as PDF

• Bohannon, J. (2011). Searching for the Google effect on people's memory. Science, 333, 277.
  Note: you should be prompted to log into the UNC Library's subscription using your ONYEN/Password

• Lecture slides [pptx]

• Case, D.O. (2012). Common examples of information behavior. In Looking for information: A survey of research on information seeking, needs, and behavior (3rd ed.) (pp. 20-42). London: Emerald Group Publishing Limited.

  *Note: If the Google Books reader doesn't provide you access to the full reading, access the chapter reading here as PDF

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• Lecture on information organization
• Categories (e.g. definition / categories of games
Card sorting exercise in class

• Glushko, R. J., Maglio, P., Matlock, T., & Barsalou, L. (2008). Categorization in the wild. Trends in Cognitive Sciences 12(4), 129-135.

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• Everything is Miscellaneous video
• Lecture on metadata and use in faceted browsing
• Look at Library Catalog
• Look at Academic Search Complete subject headings/thesaurus

• National Information Standards Organization. (2004). Understanding metadata. [includes glossary of terms] Read pages 1-3; 10-12 (skim the rest)

The research process

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• Types of research (exploratory, descriptive, explanatory)
• In-class activity: LA Times article (food labeling) based on research studies; track down original studies

• Neuman, W.L. (2009). Understanding research. Boston, MA: Pearson/Allyn and Bacon. Read part of chapter 1: What is Empirical Social Research, bottom of page 8 through page 22

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• Research questions, literature review, qualitative and quantitative research methods, variables, data collection, and data analysis

• Neuman, W.L. (2009). Understanding research. Boston, MA: Pearson/Allyn and Bacon. Read part of chapter 2: Planning a Study, pages 25-43
• Handout: Analyzing Research Articles (you will use this to analyze the research article you select from list below)

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• Overview of the General Social Survey
  1. What is it and who compiles it?
  2. Data collection method
  3. Variables, topics and themes
• Discuss Data to Story project
• Form project groups

• Heeringa, S.G., West, B.T., & Berglund, P.A. (2010). Applied survey data analysis. Boca Raton, FL : Chapman & Hall/CRC. Read chapter 1: Overview, pages 1-12.

• Barczyk, A. (2014). Relationship between the public's belief in recovery, level of mental illness stigma, and previous contact Community Mental Health Journal
• Monto, M. & Carey, A. (2014) A new standard of sexual behavior? Are claims associated with the "hookup culture" supported by General Social Survey Data? Journal of Sex Research
• Ifcher, J. & Zarghamee, H. (2013). The happiness of single mothers: Evidence from the General Social Survey. Journal of Happiness Studies.
• Burke, S.K. (2010). Social tolerance and racial materials in public libraries. Reference & User Services Quarterly, 49(4), 369-379.
• Sarkin, A.J., Groessl, E.J., Mulligan, B., Sklar, M., Kaplan, R.M., & Ganiats, T.G. (2013). Racial differences in self-rated health diminishing from 1972 to 2008. Journal of Behavioral Medicine, 35(1), 44-50.
• Irwin, K. & Berigan, N. (2013). Trust, culture, and cooperation: A social deliemma analysis of pro-environmental behaviors. The Sociological Quarterly, 54(3), 424-449.
• Yucel, D. (2013). Number of siblings and generalized trust. Social Behavior & Personality: An International Journal, 41(8), 1399-1408.

• **MEET IN ODUM COMPUTER LAB**
  DAVIS LIBRARY, ROOM 219
  Call Rachael's cell if you have trouble finding it: 714.926.1098

• Assignment Details [pdf]
• Search Log Template [xls]
• GSS 2012 Dataset [sav] Remember this file only opens with SPSS
• GSS 2012 Variables List [xls]
• SPSS Handout from Odum Workshop [doc]
• SPSS Cheat Sheet [pdf]
• Using CrossTabs in SPSS Tutorial from Kent State University Libraries

• Lecture slides [ppt]
• UNC Virtual Lab (use to access SPSS)
• Project teams
• Example project

• CQ Researcher
• Issues & Controversies on File
• Gale Virtual Reference Library
• Oxford Reference Online

• Neuman, W.L. (2009). Understanding research. Boston, MA: Pearson/Allyn and Bacon. Read part of chapter 2: Planning a Study, pages 44-57

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• Pew Research
• Statista
• Statistical Abstract of the U.S.

Lecture slides [ppt]
• From idea to library short video from NCSU Libraries

• PsycINFO
• PubMed
• JSTOR

• Picking your topic IS research short video from NCSU Libraries
• Developing Strong Thesis Statements - guide from Purdue University Writing Lab
• Handout: Thesis Statements [pdf] from The Writing Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

• Leise, F., Fast, K. and Steckel, M. (2002). What is a controlled vocabulary? Boxes and Arrows.
• Branching Out: The MeSH Vocabulary [video - 11 min 14 sec] From the U.S. National Library of Medicine.

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• Handout: Evaluating information [pdf]
• Ulrich's Guide to Periodicals - library database providing detailed, comprehensive, and authoritative information on serials published throughout the world - use to confirm peer-review status of a periodical

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• Priem, J. (2013). Scholarship: Beyond the paper. Nature 495, 437-440.
• Citation Analysis with the Web of Science #1: Introduction (Video 3:10 min) Yale Medical Library tutorials
• Citation Analysis with the Web of Science #2: Finding Citing Articles for a Known Article (Video 5:57 min) Yale Medical Library tutorials
• Citation Analysis with the Web of Science #3: Citation Analysis for a Known Author (Video 5:19 min) Yale Medical Library tutorials

• **MEET IN ODUM COMPUTER LAB**
  DAVIS LIBRARY, ROOM 219
  Call Rachael's cell if you have trouble finding it: 714.926.1098

• Lecture slides [ppt]
• Discuss Pecha Kucha presentation format

• Price, T. (2013, October 25). Big data and privacy. CQ Researcher, 23, 909-932.
• Singer, N. (2012). Your online attention, bought in an instant. The New York Times.

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• Schmidt, L. (2011). Using archives: A guide to effective research. Society of American Archivists.

• UNC's Documenting the American South
  digital publishing initiative that provides Internet access to texts, images, and audio files related to southern history, literature, and culture. Currently DocSouth includes sixteen thematic collections of books, diaries, posters, artifacts, letters, oral history interviews, and songs
• Duke Digital Collections
• Folkstreams
  Amazing collection of documentary films relating to all kinds of American culture and people
  
• National Archives
  Many people know the National Archives as the keeper of the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, and the Bill of Rights. But they also hold in trust for the public the records of ordinary citizens for example, military records of the brave men and women who have fought for our country, naturalization records of the immigrants whose dreams have shaped our nation, and even the canceled check from the purchase of Alaska.

• FIELDTRIP TO WILSON LIBRARY
• Meet in Wilson Library, Room 504, an instructional room, directly off the main floor lobby of Wilson Library

After an introduction to the special collections at Wilson Library, we will be handling and reading documents from the Federal Writers' Project Papers, 1936-1940. This collection contains the life histories of about 1,200 individuals, written by about 60 members of the project after one or more interviews with the subjects. Persons interviewed, many of them African Americans, described life in Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Virginia.

Matt Turi, Manuscripts and Archives Research and Instruction Librarian, will be our host.

• Lecture slides [ppt]

• Eisen, M. (2013). Science wants to be free. California, 124(4), 29-33.
• JSTOR Evidence in United States vs. Aaron Swartz (read Overview and Summary of Events)