Course Schedule
Date |
Topic / Class Activities |
Required Readings, Viewings and Assignments |
Jan 11 |
Welcome Overview of course
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Jan 13 |
Information seeking and behavior
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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
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Jan 18 |
No class, Martin Luther King, Jr. Day
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Jan 20 |
[Power Outage - class basically cancelled, content moved to Feb 3]
Information organization: Categorization, classification, controlled vocabularies, metadata and facets
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Lecture slides [pptx]
- Everything is Miscellaneous video
- Lecture on metadata and use in faceted browsing
- Look at Library Catalog
- Look at Academic Search Premier database: subject headings/thesaurus
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- Bowker, G.C. & Star, S.L.
(1999). Sorting Things Out: Classification and Its Consequences. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
Read pages 1-16 of the Introduction: To classify is human.
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
- Glushko, R. J., Maglio, P., Matlock, T., & Barsalou, L.
(2008). Categorization in the wild. Trends in Cognitive Sciences 12(4), 129-135.
- National Information Standards Organization. (2004). Understanding metadata
. [includes glossary of terms]
Read pages 1-3; 10-12 (skim the rest)
- Academic Search Premier Cheat Sheet
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Jan 25 |
The research process & analyzing scholarly research publications
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Lecture slides [ppt]
- Types of research (exploratory, descriptive, explanatory)
- In-class activity: LA Times article (food labeling) based on research studies; track down original studies
- Research questions, literature review, qualitative and quantitative research methods, variables, data collection, and data analysis
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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
- Leek, J.T., & Peng, R.D.
What is the question? Science, 347(6228), 1314-1315.
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Neuman, W.L. (2009)
. Understanding research. Boston, MA: Pearson/Allyn and Bacon. Read PART of chapter 2: Planning a Study, pages 25-43
- Handout: Types of Periodicals
- Handout: Analyzing Research Articles (you will use this to analyze the research article you select from list below)
HOMEWORK #1 OUT: Analysis of selected research article (DUE: FEB 8)
Choose one of the following articles to read and analyze based upon evaluation criteria described in the Analyzing Research Articles handout - each study uses GSS data. Counts as one homework assignment worth up to 3 points. Please send via email or as print out by classtime on Wed, Feb 3.
- 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
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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.
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Jan 27 |
Using large data sets
- Overview of the General Social Survey
- Lecture slides [ppt]
- What is it and who compiles it?
- Data collection method
- Variables, topics and themes
- Discuss Data to Story project
- Form project groups
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Feb 1 |
SPSS Lab with Rosemary Russo
- **MEET IN ODUM COMPUTER LAB**
DAVIS LIBRARY, ROOM 219
Call Rachael's cell if you have trouble finding it: 714.926.1098
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Feb 3 |
The research process & analyzing scholarly research publications continued from Jan 25 class
Debrief of GSS lab and project discussion
- Lecture slides [ppt]
- UNC Virtual Lab (use to access SPSS)
- Project teams
- Example project
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HOMEWORK #2 OUT: Database overview report (DUE: WED FEB 17)
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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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Feb 8 |
Information organization: Categorization, classification, controlled vocabularies, metadata and facets
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Lecture slides [pptx]
- Everything is Miscellaneous video
- Lecture on metadata and use in faceted browsing
- Look at Library Catalog
- Look at Academic Search Premier database: subject headings/thesaurus
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HOMEWORK #1 DUE: Analysis of selected research article
- Bowker, G.C. & Star, S.L.
(1999). Sorting Things Out: Classification and Its Consequences. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
Read pages 1-16 of the Introduction: To classify is human.
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
- Glushko, R. J., Maglio, P., Matlock, T., & Barsalou, L.
(2008). Categorization in the wild. Trends in Cognitive Sciences 12(4), 129-135.
- National Information Standards Organization. (2004). Understanding metadata
. [includes glossary of terms]
Read pages 1-3; 10-12 (skim the rest)
- Academic Search Premier Cheat Sheet
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Feb 10 |
Information Retrieval
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Guest speaker: Dr. Jaime Arguello, Assistant Professor, SILS, UNC
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Feb 15 |
CLASS CANCELLED DUE TO ICE
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Feb 17 |
Specialized info sources: Background Information
Lecture slides [pptx]
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Feb 22 |
Specialized databases: Brief class reports
Lecture slides [pptx]
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HOMEWORK #2 DUE: Database overview report
- AccessScience (Grace)
- Health Source: Consumer Edition (Kelly)
- Literature Resource Center (Dorian)
- AnthroSource (Jorge)
- WebMD (Anis)
- PubMed (Lunden)
- ProjectMuse (Nick)
- Standard & Poor's NetAdvantage (Anna)
- PsycINFO (Kalsey)
- Business Source Premier (Rishabh)
- Embase (biomedical literature) (Joseph)
- JSTOR (Addie)
- Mental Measurements Yearbook & Tests in Print MMY/TIP (Cassandra)
- ACM Digital Library Association for Computing Machinery (Alex)
- CQ Researcher (Jake)
- Factiva (Colin)
- FMG Master Academic Collection (Ranni)
- SAGE Business Researcher (Jennifer)
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Feb 24 |
Evaluating resources
Specialized info sources: Statistics and demographics
Search techniques (subject headings, Boolean, proximity operators)
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Feb 29 |
Specialized literature databases cont'd
Lecture slides [pptx]
Focusing a research topic - crafting a thesis statement
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Midterm Exam .docx distributed in class. Completed exams are due to Rachael via email by 5:00 pm on Wednesday, March 9.
In-class worktime on first component of Data-to-Story Project (Project Plan - due Mar 2)
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March 2 |
Ethical use of information
Lecture slides [pptx]
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DATA TO STORY PROJECT: PROJECT PLAN DUE
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March 7 |
Citation analysis and "expertise"
Lecture slides [ppt]
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HOMEWORK #3 OUT: Scholar Profile Report/Introduction (DUE: WED MARCH 30)
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March 9 |
NO CLASS MEETING
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Mid-term exam is due to Rachael via email by 5:00 pm
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March 14 |
No class, spring break
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March 16 |
No class, spring break
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March 21 |
Mid-term debrief +
Online Privacy
Lecture slides [ppt]
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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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March 23 |
Creative Collaboration and Narrative Storytelling with Improv
We will meet in Manning Hall, Room 208
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Guest speaker: Zach Ward, Owner, Executive Producer and Artistic Director of DSI Comedy Theater
Select ONE of the articles below to read before class - it will give you a brief intro into "improv" and help tie improv strategies/rules to potential applications in the real world.
- Misch, D.A. (2016). I feel witty, oh so witty. Journal of the American Medical Association, 315(4), 345-346. 2016;315(4):. doi:10.1001/jama.2015.16758.
A physician suggests that improv is a uniquely powerful and instructive tool in the service of physician development.
- Shochet, R., King, J., Levine, R., Clever, S., & Wright, S. (2013). 'Thinking on my feet': an improvisation course to enhance students' confidence and responsiveness in the medical interview. Education For Primary Care, 24(2), 119-124.
Reports on a group of medical students who took an improv workshop - and how the strategies of improv can help improve doctor-patient comunication (skills essential to providing empathetic, supportive and patient-centered care).
- Patel, V. (2014). Improv Helps Ph.D's Explain Their Work--and Loosen Up. Chronicle Of Higher Education, 61(11), A16.
Short report describing how graduate students are learning and using improv skills to improve their communication skills both in explaining their research and on the job market.
Singh, S., & Sonnenburg, S. (2012). Brand performances in social media. Journal of Interactive Marketing, 26(4), 189-197.
Improv theater is used as a framework to understand brands in social media.
- Steitzer, C. (2011). The brilliant genius: Using improv comedy in social work groups. Social Work with Groups, 34(3-4), 270-282.
This article explores the historical and theoretical connections between group social work and improvisation (improv) comedy.
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March 28 |
SPSS Lab with Rosemary Russo
- **MEET IN ODUM COMPUTER LAB**
DAVIS LIBRARY, ROOM 219
Call Rachael's cell if you have trouble finding it: 714.926.1098
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March 30 |
Primary sources and archives
Lecture slides [ppt]
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HOMEWORK #3 DUE: Scholar Profile Report/Introduction
- Schmidt, L. (2011). Using archives: A guide to effective research. Society of American Archivists.
Please spend some time exploring one or more of these digital archives and collections and post your observations and questions on our discussion board in Sakai.
- 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.
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April 4 |
Archives and special collections
- FIELDTRIP TO WILSON LIBRARY
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Meet in Wilson Library, Room 504, an instructional room, directly off the main floor lobby of Wilson Library
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HOMEWORK #4 OUT: 1-Page reflection on fieldtrip to Wilson Library (DUE: WED APRIL 13)
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.
We will also examine documents from the collection of Sam J. Erin's papers. Ervin was a North Carolina legislator, judge and United States senator. In particular we will look at correspondence with some of his constituents relating to the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
Matt Turi, Manuscripts and Archives Research and Instruction Librarian, will be our host.
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April 6 |
- Wilson Library field trip de-brief
- Annotated bibliography re-cap
- Pecha Kucha presentation format
- Presentation dates
- Data-to-Story Project work time
Lecture slides [ppt]
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DATA TO STORY PROJECT: SEARCH LOG DUE
Examples of Pecha Kucha Presentations: http://www.pechakucha.org/
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April 11 |
Information Access
Lecture slides [pptx]
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April 13 |
CLASS CANCELED
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HOMEWORK #4 DUE: 1-Page reflection on fieldtrip to Wilson Library
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April 18 |
Information Sources: Social Media
Lecture slides [ppt]
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Data to Story Project Presentations:
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April 20 |
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Data to Story Project Presentations:
- Addie, Dorian, Lunden, and Jennifer
INLS 151 JEOPARDY!
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April 25 |
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DATA TO STORY PROJECT: ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY DUE
Data to Story Project Presentations
- Rishabh, Anna, Kelly, and Kalsey
- Anis, Nick, Cassandra, and Joseph
- Colin, Jake and Aiden
- Alex and Ranni
- Grace and Emily
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April 27 |
Wrap-up and review for final exam
Lecture slides [pptx]
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Final Exam study guide
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Thur May 5
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Final Exam 4:00 pm in our regular classroom, Manning 014
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