INLS 180 Day 8 Notes
Oct. 26, 2005
Project progress during fall break? ;-O
NYT Sunday section on ‘interruptions’ (see Gary H post)
Points
Tech amplifies how much we can do, but also raises expectations
IA is about crafting e-documents
IA is not a fad, here to stay as a career path
Observation: Multi-tasking diminishes quality; => for net genners?
“The persuasiveness of a computer is tempered by its users’ ability to objectively reflect upon its purpose.”
Net genners as ‘intellectually lazy’ vs luddite defensiveness
Change is not unprecedented….all will be well in ILS land
Computers affect emotion; computers can be persuasive
Our field changes fast
Libraries will disappear; libraries will flourish
KM includes tacit knowledge
Net genners are different in degree rather than in kind
Questions
Net gen beyond the US?
Can libraries compete with Borders and B&N? (and amazon and google print?)
How do we evaluate/grade multimedia (e.g., student projects)
How to train info professionals to be good at communicating with new genners as well as the rest of us?
Is dialectic necessary for new ideas to emerge?
What have past ILS changes taught us about the new ones?
Quality vs popularity/commercial gain ala EPIC
Should a persuasive system only give compliments (or tell the truth)?
Is it wise to adapt our libraries to net gen desires?
Isn’t all information persuasive?
Why do we focus on tools as change agents rather than seeing them as vectors for existing pedagogical and epistemological models?
Janes: Group 3
Dewdney & Sheldrick Ross: Group 4
4. Intermediation
Do you want to work with people, data or things?
More Intermediation or Disintermediation? [service vs self-serve]
Information Overload and the need for intermediaries
See http://www.sims.berkeley.edu/research/projects/how-much-info/index.html
The amount of print information is now trivial in volume (93% digital each year) [next wave of sensor data not even started yet]
Quality versus quantity?
Disintermediation
Many services changing models/roles (gas attendants, travel agents, bank tellers, cashiers, sales clerks)
Phone menu systems, WWW services
Physical services adding value (e.g., Bookstores add creature comforts, newspapers & TV add WWW interactivity)
What about publishers? (author publishing on WWW?, roles of non-commercial presses?) google print controversy (see Michael’s post)
What about libraries? Online reference? What about corporations?
What added value services can we invent? EBAY intermediaries?
Managing change and living with the churn
Online reference services?
Smith, L. C. (1981). Citation analysis. Library Trends, 30(1), Summer 1981. 83-106. (SILS reserve)
Lawrence, S. (2001). Online or invisible, Nature (online)
Moorhead, G., Ference, R., & Neck, C. P. (1991). Group decision fiascoes continue: Space Shuttle Challenger and a groupthink framework. Human Relations, 44(6). 539-550. (SILS reserve)
Optional: Garvey, W. D. (1979). The role of scientific communication in the conduct of research and the creation of scientific knowledge.
Optional: Harnad, S. (1990). Scholarly skywriting and the prepublication continuum of scientific inquiry.
Optional: Sonnenwald, D. (1996). Communication roles that support collaboration during the design process.
Optional: Constant, D., Kiesler, S., & Sproull, L. (1994). What's mine is ours, or is it? A study of attitudes about information sharing.
4. One-minute paper concept
What was the big point you learned in class today?
What is the main, unanswered question you leave class with today?