Last revised March 12, 2007.
Course Outline for IRLS 588, Section 793: Group Information Rights
Semester: Spring 2007
Instructor: Kay Mathiesen
Currently I only have a few readings listed. This will be updated with the full list of readings shortly.
Readings listed here are available either via a link to the internet, via the U of A library (L), or on electronic reserves (ER). The password for the electronic reserves is "rights."
Note that the readings should be completed by the Wednesday of the the week in which it is listed. (For example, the readings for week 2 should be completed by January 17). Assignments are due on the Friday of the week in which they are listed.
| Date | Topic | Readings | Assignment |
| Week 1: Jan 10-14 | Introductions | No Readings for this week. | Post an Introduction to d2l. |
| Wk 2: Jan 15-21 | Rights and Information Rights | Fagan, Andrew. "Human Rights," The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Universal Declaration of Human Rights. United Nations. (See esp. articles 15, 18, 19, 26, and 27.) Cohen, Julie E. 2001. "Information Rights and Intellectual Freedom," Ethics and the Internet. Anton Veder, ed. Antwerp: Intersentia.
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Write a one-page response to the following: Select one of the listed articles from the Declaration of Human Rights. What is it saying we have a right to? Give an example. Why is this right important--what does it allow us to enjoy, be, or choose that we would not be able to without this right? Does everyone in the U.S. enjoy this right fully? If not, what would need to be changed so that everyone could enjoy this right? |
| Wk 3: Jan 22-28 | Ways of Knowing | Barhnhardt, R. and Kawagley, A. O. 2005. "Indigenous Knowledge Systems and Alaska Native Ways of Knowing." Anthropology and Education Quarterly, 36 (1). pp. 8-23. Anderson, Elizabeth, "Feminist Epistemology and Philosophy of Science", The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Fall 2006 Edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.), URL = <http://plato.stanford.edu/archives/fall2006/entries/feminism-epistemology/>. |
Write a one-page response to the following: Describe at least three different ways of knowing as presented in Barhnhardt and/or Anderson. How might library or information services foster each of these ways of knowing? Please give concrete examples to illustrate your answer. |
| Wk 4: Jan 29-Feb 4 | Social Groups | Young, Iris Marion. 1989. "Polity and Group Difference: A Critique of the Ideal of Universal Citizenship." Ethics 99:250-74. (Electronic Reserves) Pierik, Roland. 2004. "Conceptualizing Cultural Groups and Cultural Difference." Ethnicities 4 (4):523-44. (ER) Frable, Deborrah. 1997. "Gender, Racial, Ethnic, Sexual, and Class Identities." Annual Review of Psychology 48:139-62. (ER) |
Write a one-page response to the following: Using the concepts of social identity and categorization described in the Pierik and Frable articles, describe your social identity(ies). To what extent are they a result of others categorization of you? To what extent are they a result of "self-categorization"? |
| Wk 5: Feb 5-11 | Group Rights | Miller, David. 2002. "Group Rights, Human Rights, and Citizenships " European Journal of Philosophy 10 (2):178-95. (ER) Kukathas, Chandran. 1992. "Are There Any Cultural Rights?" Political Theory 20 (1):105-39. (ER) |
Write a one page response to the following: Explain and evaluate Miller and Kukathas' view of group rights. How might their arguments be related to the issue of group information rights? |
| Wk 6: Feb 12-18 | Indigenous Groups | Introduction, Chapters 1, and 2 in Brown, Michael. 2003. Who Owns Native Culture? Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press. (ER) |
No Assignment |
| Wk 7: Feb 19-25 | IG and Information Control |
Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (ER)
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Write a one page response to the following: Compare the provisions of the Library Bill of Rights with the Protocols for Native American Archival Materials. What apparent conflicts are there between the actions recommended by these two documents? How might such conflicts be resolved? |
| Wk 8: Feb 26-Mar 4 | IG and Information Control | Castellano, Marlene Brant. 2004. "Ethics of Aboriginal Research." Journal of Aboriginal Health. January:98-114. (W) Coffey, Wallace; Tsosie, Rebecca. 2001. "Rethinking the Tribal Sovereignty Doctrine: Cultural Sovereignty and the Collective Future of Indian Nations." Stanford Law and Policy Review 191-221 (12):2. (ER) |
Assignment: Read through the description of the conference and the Call for Posters from the Conference Website. Write up a one page proposal for what issue you will investigate for your poster. |
| Wk 9: Mar 5-9 | IG and Information Access |
Roy, Loriene; Larsen, Peter. 2002. "Oksale: An Indigenous Approach to Creating Virtual Library of Education Resources." D-Lib. 8 (3) Hunter, Jane; Koopman, Bevan; Sledge, Jane. 2002. "Software Tools for Indigenous Knowledge Management." In Museums and the Web 2003. Charlotte, N.C. |
Write a one-page response to one of the following scenarios: (a) You are the collection development person at a public library and you have been asked to expand your collection of materials on Native Americans. Write up a plan for how you will go about developing the collection. |
| Mar 10-18 | Spring Break | ||
| Wk 10: Mar 19-25 | Gender |
Goulding, Anne; Spacey, Rachel. 2003. "Women and the Information Society: barriers and participation " IFLA Journal 29 (1). (ER) Hannigan, Jane Anne; Crew, Hilary. 1993. "A Feminist Paradigm for Library and Information Science." Wilson Library Bulletin 68:28-32. (ER) Hildenbrand, Suzanne. 2000. "Library Feminism and Library Women's History: Activism and Scholarship, Equity and Culture." Libraries and Culture 35 (1):51-65. (ER) Lee, Hur-Li 2003. "Collection Development as a Social Process." The Journal of Academic Librarianship 29 (1):23-31. (ER) Luttrell, Wendy. 1989. "Working-Class Women's Ways of Knowing: Effects of Gender, Race, and Class." Sociology of Education 62 (1):33-46. (ER) Olsen, Hope A. 2001. "The Power to Name: Representation in Library Catalogs." Signs 26 (3):639-68. (ER) |
No writing assignment. |
| Wk 11: Mar 26-Apr 1 | Race
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Abdul Alkalimat and Kate Williams "Social Capital and Cyberpower in the African American Community: A Case Study of a Community Technology Center in the Dual City" in Community Informatics: Community Development Balderrama, Sandra Rios. 2000. "This Trend Called Diversity." Library Trends 49 (1):192-214. (ER) Dawson, Alma. 2000. "Celebrating African-American Librarians and Librarianship." Library Trends 49 (1):49-87. (ER) Delgado, Richard; Stefancic, Jean. 1989. "Why Do We Tell the Same Stories?: Law Reform, Critical Librarianship, and the Triple Helix Dilemma." Stanford Law Review 42 (1):207-25. (ER) St. Lifer, Evan; Nelson, Corinne. 1997. "Unequal Opportunities: Race Does Matter." Library Journal:42-6. (ER) |
Writing Assignment: Write a one-page proposal for your final project. The project should be some practical proposal for how to concretely address the information rights and needs of some group discussed in this course. Describe the group, the need, and how your proposal would address the need. |
| Wk 12: Apr 2-8 | People with Disabilities | Klauber, Julie. 1998. "Living Well with a Disability: How Libraries Can Help." American Libraries, November, 53-5. (ER) Alexander, L. B. . 2005. "ADA Resources for the Library and Information Professions." Journal of Education for Library and Information Science 46 (3):248-57. (ER) Birgitta, Irvall; Nielsen, Gyda Skat. 2005. "Access to Libraries for Persons with Disabilites--Checklist." In IFLA Professional Reports The Hague: International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions. <http://www.ifla.org/VII/s9/nd1/iflapr-89e.pdf> Browse the Disability Services page from the Pima Country Library. |
Write a one page response to the following: Using the IFLA checklist compare the Pima County Library Disability Services page with at least two of the "exemplary library pages" listed in the Alexander article (note, some of the addresses have changed, so you may need to browse a bit to find the correct page). Are there ways in which the Pima County Library page could be improved? Are there accomodations that could be improved or added? Extra Credit: Find the disability services page for UA Libraries. Find the disability services page at Univeristy of Cololrado Library and/or at University of South Carolina Library and compare to UA. |
| Wk 13: Apr 9-15 | LGBT Community | Whelan, Debra Lau. 2007. "Gay Titles Missing in Most AR Libraries." School Library Journal 53 (1):18. (ER) Browse the ALA GBLT Intellectual Freedom Toolkit. |
Write a one page response to the following: Select one of the articles mentioned in either the Keilty reading or the ALA GBLT Toolkit. Read the article and write a one-page summary. |
| Wk 14: Apr 16-22 | Children's Rights to Information | Etzioni, Amitai. 2004. "On Protecting Children from Speech." Chicago-Kent Law Review 79 (3):3-53. (ER) |
Write a one page response to the following: Suppose you work in a library that strictly follows the ALA Bill of Rights with regard to access for minors. A parent is complaining that his or her child has checked out an R-rated movie and watched it without the parent's knoweldge. How will you respond? (You may further specify the details if they are necessary to fully answer the question.) Be sure to draw from ideas, arguments, etc. in the readings. |
| Wk 15: Apr 23-29 | Children's Rights to Information | Tamir, Yael. 1990. "Whose Education is it Anyway?" Journal of Philosophy of Education 24 (2):161-70. (ER) |
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| Wk 16: Apr 30-May 2 | Wrap-Up |