INLS 180 Day 8 Notes
March 20, 2006
Faculty candidate feedback?
Launch conference notes
Interaction assignment due
Project updates next week
Points
People treat media like other people
Gardeners are hard to replace
KM as a social/organizational phenomenon
New mass technologies always generate dystopia thinking (EPIC/googlezon)
Information consumer has responsibility for judging quality/accuracy
Questions
Balance between persuasion/ease of use/simplicity and unbiased, quality service and learning?
How to collect data from people (self report) without exaggeration or bias?
Do mammalian brain response cross cultures (yes!)
Can technology improve KM?
What gives an info source credibility? Trust?
Has social networking changed KM practice?
How do you capture the ephemeral (and then what is it?)
2 Digital libraries and the sharium concept (slides)
3. Information Architecture issues and challenges---an IS profession? (slides)
IA Summit this week in Vancouver, 500 people registered!
4. Discuss reading:
From blogs: easy to use is not ONLY about II
NCSU Endeca OPAC
How are new fields born?
Library as an Amazon storefront?
Faculty should make students use library (not just google)???
Rosenfeld:
Lippincott:
5. Read for next week
Janes, J. (2002). Digital Reference: Reference librarian’s experiences and attitudes. JASIST, 53(7), 549-566. (online)
Dewdney & Sheldrick Ross (1994). Flying a light aircraft: Reference service evaluation from a user’s viewpoint. RQ 34(2), 217-30. (SILS reserve)
6. 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?