Overview of course/Information explosion

• Lecture slides [pptx]
• First Day "Quiz"

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• 5 Myths About the Information Age
• Information Video
• In Class Exercise
  

• Scholarly Article: Bates, Marcia (1999). The invisible substrate of information

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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
• 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.

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• Lecture on information organization
• Discuss Project topics

• 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

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

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• Types of research (exploratory, descriptive, explanatory)

• 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
• LA Time Article

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• Kuhlthau, C.C. (1991). Inside the search process: Information seeking from the users perspective.

• Ford, N. (2012). Book Chapter: Ford, N. (2012). Using the Web for Research. Chapter 3:
  Clarifying What is Required of You. Sage Publications, Thousand Oaks,
  CA.
  
  

• Book Chapter: Ford, N. (2012). Using the Web for Research. Chapter 6 Information sources and search tools. Sage Publications, Thousand Oaks, CA.

• Scholarly Article: Mandalios, J. (2013). RADAR: An approach for helping students evaluate Internet sources. Journal of Information  Science. (39) 4, 470-478. DOI:10.1177/0165551513478889 (available
  on Sakai)
• Ford Chapter. Stuff

• Tutorial: UNC Libraries' Evaluating Information tutorial. Evaluation information tutorial.
  
  

• Lecture slides [pptx]
• In class exercise
  
• Revised Topic Due

• 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)
• Handout: What Type of Information is it?
  

• Lecture Slides
• In-class Exercise

• Video: UNC Library tutorial: Choosing good keywords
  

• Book Chapter: Ford, N. (2012). Using the Web for Research. Chapter 7 -- Mapping search approaches & techniques to information needs. Sage Publications, Thousand Oaks, CA. (available on Sakai)
  
  

• Read the About, Search, and Citations section of Google Scholar
  
• Google Scholar: Video

• Video:  Database searching in EBSCOhost: EBSCOhost Tutorial
  
• Video:  ACM Digital Library: How to Use ACM Digital Library
  
• Web of Science: Search Web of Science, Managing Search Results, Refine & Analyze Results

• Lecture slides [pptx]
• Pew Research
• Statista
• Statistical Abstract of the U.S.

In Class Exercise
• Pew
• 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


Class Exercise

• 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.

Evaluating information

• Lecture slides [ppt]
• 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
• In Class assignment

• 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

• Online Newspaper article: Neyfakh, L.  Do our brains pay a price for GPS?  The Boston Globe, August 18, 2013.
  
• Scholarly Article:  Mizrachi & Bates (2013).  Undergraduates’ personal academic information management and the consideration of time and task-urgency.
  

• Jones, W. (2010). Personal Information Management. Chapter 10 in Annual Review of Information Science and Technology. Read pages 453 – 465 (stop before the section called Research to Understand How People Do PIM).
  
• Textbook Chapter: Jones, W. (2008). Keeping Found Things Found: The study and practice of Personal Information Management. Chapter 4.
  

• Mendeley
• Lecture slides [ppt]
• Managing Information pt 3: Citation Managment
  

• Video: Overview of Citation Management Software
  Videos: Watch Using RefWorks OR  Using Zotero OR Mendeley Tutorial
• 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 University Archives
  MEET IN READING ROOM ON SECOND FLOOR 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.

• 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)