| Date |
Topic | Read Before Class |
Class Events and Exercises |
Lecture & Outside Class Work |
| Aug. 29 |
Course Overview, Introductions |
Read & Discuss, Anonymous. If Architects Had to Work Like Programmers |
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| Sep. 5 |
What is Information Behavior? | Ch. 1, 2 |
Discussion: Information seeking behaviors
vs. information behaviors; information as communication, evidence,
knowledge; information processing; |
Size of Information, parts 1-3 in
list
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| Sep. 12 |
What is Information? |
Ch. 3 |
What does information mean to me? 1-page in-class
essay; cognition, mind, experience, learning, innovation, gatekeeping |
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| Sep. 19 |
What is Information Seeking? |
Ch. 4, 5 |
Review: ISB Background, Rationalist and Humanist
traditions of Inquiry and Practice |
pdf slides; pdf handouts
(42) |
| Sep. 26 |
Four Models of Information Behavior |
Ch. 6 |
Observation Exercise (in-class): Electronic Informaton Seeking (Purposive) Film: Vox (a compendium of human knowledge? a librarian? world brain?) from the new movie based on H.G. Wells, The Time Machine Recommended Webcast: Neural Processing by Dr.Jeremy Nathans (Lecture 4, Howard Hughes Medical Institute) |
pdf slides;
pdf handouts
(18) Exercise: Who are the Users in Selected Contexts? |
| Oct. 3 |
Is there a Theory of Information Behavior? |
Ch. 7 | |
Annotated Bibliography |
| Oct. 10 |
What is Research? |
Ch. 8 |
Form Groups; On own |
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| Oct. 17 |
What are research methods we can use and what does
the research show? |
Ch. 9, 10 |
Final Project |
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| Oct. 24 |
On your own: Observation |
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| Oct. 31 |
Student Presentations
Next Week |
Research Methods, ISB, Exercise (Ch. 8, Q1, p. 299),
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Concepts & Theories Lecture - pdf
slides; pdf handouts;
Intro to Research - pdf slides; pdf handouts |
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| Nov. 7 |
Student Presentations
Tonya, Ian, April, Bill, Sonya, Gene |
Ch. 11 |
Visitor to Class - Jeremy Frumkin |
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| Nov. 14 |
Student Presentations
Zoe, Laurie, David, Bobbie, Kevin What does the research tell us about occupational groups? |
Ch. 12, 13 |
Visitor to Class - Dr. Krisellen Maloney | Due In Class: Annotated Bibliography |
| Nov. 21 |
What do the demographics tell us? What conclusions
can we reach? |
Ch. 11, 12, 13 - Review |
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| Nov. 28 |
Thanksgiving Break |
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| Dec. 5 |
Poster Session (Student Presentations) |
Poster session cancelled - Ind. Student
Presentations and/or Review |
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| Dec. 12 |
No meeting |
No meeting |
Due by 4:00 pm: Final Paper (User Study) |