| October 10
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BLOGGING -- Chuck Grey will set us up on a
community blog and talk about blogging.
Class panels - introductory presentations.
Reading: Find a blog of your choice to examine and share. Some examples
of SILS people with blogs --
Infomusings, PomeRantz, The Real Paul Jones
Myburgh (text) - Preface (xiii-xviii) and Chapter 1
(1-10).
Buschman. "Notes on Postmodern Technology, Technocracy, and
Libraries."
Stutzman, "An Evaluation of Identity-Sharing Behavior in Social Network
Communities"
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Panel Presentations. Write-up of Interviews
due. |
| October 17 |
We will join with the International Issues
class
for a second lecture by Lennart Bjorneborn on "World-Encompassing
Information Systems". It is currently scheduled from 2:00 to 5:00.
Room to be announced
Reading: Friedman. "The World is Flat".
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Remember to post a comment or two on the blog
site. See CourseNotes for some prompt
questions.
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| October
19 |
IMPACT OF CULTURE ON SOCIETY
Reading: Marcus & Gould. "Cultural Dimensions and User
Interface Design"
Myburgh (text) Chapter 3, "The TIP Paradigm and Habitus" pp.
39-80. |
Topic Selection Description due.
Fall
break begins. ILSSA
trip to DC. |
Week 4
October 24
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POLICY ISSUES
Reading: Marcum. "Research Questions for the Digital Era Library."
Bruce. "Personal, Anticipated Information Need"
Myburgh (text) Chap. 4, "Changing Content," pp. 81-96. |
Check Course Notes for some notes
and discussion questions about the readings. |
| October 26 |
Lecture: Birger Larsen on Information
Retrieval
from Structured Documents
Reading: Kranich. "The Information Commons."
Komito. "Regulation of Information."
Myburgh (text) Chap. 5, "What is the Information Society
Anyway?" pp. 97-110. |
This Saturday (October 29)
opportunity to visit the zoo in Asheboro. |
Week 5
October 31 |
ASIST National Conference in Charlotte,
NC. Bus engaged for an all-day trip.
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We will leave from campus at
5am and return around 10pm. You can sleep on the bus. |
November
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CULTURE AND MODERNIZATION
Reading: Inglehart. "Culture and Democracy"
Myburgh (text) Chap. 6, "A Kuhnian Paradign Shift, Perhaps" pp.
117-134.
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First two student
presentations: Barbara Aebi [now rescheduled for Nov. 7] and Samira
Akpan. |
Week
7
November 7
| ETHICS OF
INFORMATION
Reading: Lester & Kroehler. "Ethics of Information."
Myburgh (text) Chapter 7, "The IP Mosaic" pp. 135-152. |
Two student presentations: - Jesper
Eilertsen
- Daniel Hendley
Please check Course Notes for
comments on readings to help with blogging. |
November 9
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SCHOLARLY COMMUNICATION AND
LIBRARY
RESEARCH
Reading: Buckland, "Five Grand
Challenges."
Bruce, "Personal Anticipated Information Need"
Myburgh (text) Chapter
8, "Core Information Knowledge," pp. 153-184.
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Two student presentations: Chase
Hansen and Agnes Lee. |
SATURDAY
November 12
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Special Bus Trip to Greensboro to
visit libraries and museums. With Professor David Carr and the
Cultural
Institutions class.
We will depart campus at 8:30am [NOTE: this is change that bus
driver insisted on - he thinks it will take more than an hour] from Bus
Stop in front of Student Union on South Road. Look for Southern Bus
Company. Plan is to arrive at the Hemphill Branch Library at 10. At
11 we return to the bus and go to the new Central Library and see it,
the Children's Museum, the Green Hill Gallery, and Greensboro History
Museum (lunch during this time). Return to bus at 3:30 and arrive
back in Chapel Hill at approximately 4:30 pm.
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Week
7
November
14
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Lecture: N. Vijayan on Asian
perspective on the Information Society -- case study of
Singapore.
Reading: World Summit on the Information Society. NOTE:
These readings are posted under Week Five in Blackboard.
Examine Documenting the
American South, UNC-CH's digital library on southern history,
literature, and culture. |
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Week
8
November
16 |
CHALLENGES FOR RECORDS MANAGEMENT
N. Vijayan lecturing on Records Management and Digital
Preservation.
Reading: Pardo et al. "Opening Gateways; Designing Electronic
Records Access Programs"
Myburgh (text) Chapt. 9, "What Does the New IP Look Like?" pp. 185-200.
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