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LIS532K_Schedule

LIS532K SPRING 2017 SESSION BY SESSION CLASS SCHEDULE

There are 13 class sessions. The table below displays the course schedule by Session Number and Date, Topics, Readings and Assignments.

(Note that with the exception of the readings for the first class session, you are expected to read the listed readings before you come to the class)

Here is a list of important dates and no-class dates:

  • 1/23: First meeting of class
  • 2/27 through 4/3: Last part of the class sessions feature students’ presentation on individual models
  • 3/6: No class: Spring Break
  • 3/21: No class: Instructor attends iConference
  • 4/10: Doctoral students’ presentations on conceptual frameworks
  • 4/17: No class: Patriot’s Day Holiday
  • 4/24: Professor Gerry Benoit guest lectures on Introduction to Information Visualization (12:45-1:50pm)
  • 5/1: Professor Colin Rhinesmith guest lectures on Introduction to Community Informatics (12:45-1:50pm)
  • 5/8: Term project presentation; written report due

 

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Date Topics/Activities Reading Assignments
1/23

Session 1: Introduction to the Course and Information Science
    Distributed: Assignment 1

1/30

Session 2: Core concepts: Information and Information Science

  • Case & Given, Chapter 4
  • Buckland, M.K. (1991). Information as thing. Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 42(5), 351-360.
  • Bawden, D., & Robinson, L. (2012). Introduction to Information Science. Chapter 1: What is information science? Disciplines and professions. (Available on Moodle course site)
  • Choose one from Session 2 reading List

Distributed: Assignment 2

2/6

Session 3: Theories, Frameworks, and Models

  • Case & Given, Chapter 7 – Section 7.1; Chapter 8
  • Fisher, Erdelez, & McKechnie, Chapter 1
  • Weick, K. E. (1995). What theory is not, theorizing is. Administrative Science Quarterly, 385-390.
  • Choose one from Session 3 reading List

Distributed: Assignment 3; Term Project

2/13

Session 4: Information context
  • Case & Given, Chapter 1; Chapter 3; Chapter 10
  • Courtright, C. (2007). Context in Information Behavior Research. Annual Review of Information Science & Technology, 41, 273-306.
  • Talja, S., Keso, H. & Peitilainen, T. (1999). The production of “context” in information seeking research: A metatheoretical view. Information Processing & Management, 35 (6): 751-763.
  • Choose one from Session 4 reading List

Due: Assignment 1
Distributed: Assignment 4

2/20

Session 5: The User: Information Needs, Wants and Demands
  • Case & Given, Chapter 2, Chapter 5
  • Wilson, T.D. (1994). Information needs and uses: fifty years of progress, in: B.C. Vickery, (Ed.), Fifty years of information progress: a Journal of Documentation review, (pp. 15- 51) London: Aslib. (http://informationr.net/tdw/publ/papers/1994FiftyYears.html)
  • Choose one from Session 5 reading List

Due: Assignment 2
Final project team formation
2/27

Session 6: Theories of Information seeking and behavior: Part I

Assignment 3 Model Presentation
  • Case & Given, Chapter 7 – Section 7.2; Chapter 11
  • Case, D. (2006) Information behavior. Annual Review of Information Science and Technology, v. 40: 293-327.
  • Wilson, T. (1997). Information behaviour: An inter-disciplinary perspective. In Vakkari, P., Savolainen, R., & Dervin, B. (eds.), Information Seeking in Context: Proceedings of an International Conference on Research in Information Needs, Seeking and Use in Different Contexts (August 14-16, 1996, Tampere, Finland). Taylor Graham, 39-50.
  • For reading list of three key models, go to Session 6 reading List
3/6

No Class: Spring Break
3/13

Session 7: Theories of Information seeking and behavior: Part II

    Assignment 3 Model Presentation
  • Marchionini, G. (2008). Human-information interaction research and development. Library and Information Science Research, 30, 165-174.
  • McKechnie, E.F. et al. (2005). How human information behaviour researchers use each other’s work: a basic citation analysis study. Information Research, 10 (2) (http://InformationR.net/ir/10-2/paper220.html)
  • Savolainen, R. (2007). Information behavior and information practice: reviewing the “umbrella concepts” of information-seeking studies. Library Quarterly 77 (2): 109-132.
  • For reading list of three key models, go to Session 7 reading List
3/21

No Class: Instructor Attends iConference
3/27 Session 8: Affect/Emotion aspects of information behavior; User Engagement

    Assignment 3 Model Presentation
  • Nahl, D., & Bilal, D. (2007). Information and Emotion: The Emergent Affective Paradigm in Information Behaviour Research and Theory. Chapters 1-4. Medford, NJ: Information Today.
  • O’Brien, H.L., & Toms, E.G. (2008). What is user engagement? A conceptual framework for defining user engagement with technology. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 59(6), 938-955.
  • For an additional reading, go to Session 8 reading List
4/3

Session 9: Collaboration/group-based information behavior

    Assignment 3 Model Presentation
  • Cannon-Bowers, J. A. Salas, E., and Converse, S. Shared mental models in expert team decision making. In J. Castellan, Jr. (Ed), Current issues in individual and group decision making (1993), 221-246. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.
  • Shah, C., Capra, R., Hansen, P. (2014). Collaborative information seeking [Guest editor’s introduction]. IEEE Computer 47(3). http://www.computer.org/csdl/mags/co/2014/03/mco2014030022.pdf
  • Choose one to read from Session 9 reading List
4/10

Session 10: Models of Information interaction, storage and retrieval

    Assignment 4 (Doctoral Student) Conceptual Model Presentation
  • Savage-Knepshield, P.A. & Belkin, N.J. (1999). Interaction in information retrieval: trends over time. Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 50 (12), 1067-1082.
  • Daniels, P.J. (1986). Cognitive models in information retrieval: An evaluative review. Journal of Documentation, 42(4), 272-304.
  • Hjørland, B. (2010). The foundation of the concept of relevance. Journal of the American Society for Information Science & Technology, 61(2), 217-237.
  • Olson, G. & Olson, J. S. (2003). Human-computer interaction: Psychological aspects of the human use of computing. Annual Review of Psychology, 54, 491-516.
  • For further readings, go to Session 10 reading List
4/17

No Class: Patriot’s Day
4/24

Session 11: Information use, Information Visualization

    Professor Gerry Benoit guest lectures on Introduction to Information Visualization
  • Information Use:
    • Rosenbaum, H. (1996). Structure and action: Towards a new concept of the information use environment. 211-213. ASIS ’96: Proceedings of the 59th ASIS Annual Meeting, 33, 152-156.
    • Taylor, R.S. (1991). Information use environments. In Dervin, B., & Voigt, M.J. (eds.), Progress in Communication Sciences, Volume X. Norwood, NJ: Ablex, 217-255.
  • Introduction to Information Visualization:
  • For further readings, go to Session 11 reading List
5/1

Session 12: Community Informatics; Information Journey

    Professor Colin Rhinesmith guest lectures on Introduction to Community Informatics
  • Community Informatics
  • Information Activities & Information Journey:
    • Du, J. T. (2014.) The Information Journey of Marketing Professionals: Incorporating Work Task-Driven Information Seeking, Information Judgments, Information Use, and Information Sharing. Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, 65 (9), 1850-1869.
    • Thivant, E. (2005). Information seeking and use behavior of economists and business analysts. Information Research, 10(4). http://www.informationr.net/ir/10-4/paper234.html
  • For further readings, go to Session 12 reading List
5/8

Session 13: Term Project Presentation

dueDue: Term Project Written Report

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