Fall 2008

INLS 200-001: Retrieving & Analyzing Information

[Syllabus] [Schedule] [Reading] [Blackboard]

[Research Question] [Source Evaluation] [Annotated Bibliography] [Final Portfolio]

[Group Report]

Course Schedule

Reading

Week 1

1. August 20 (Wed): Course Introduction

• No readings.

Week 2

2. August 25 (Mon): Information Literacy & Information Science

• Bates, Marcia J. (1999). The Invisible Substrate of Information Science. Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 50(12), 1043-1050. [Available from E-Journal at UNC Library]

• Shapiro, Jeremy J. and Hughes, Shelley K. (1996). Information Literacy as a Liberal Art: Enlightenment proposals for a new curriculum. Educom Review, 31(2). [Available at: http://www.educause.edu/pub/er/review/reviewarticles/31231.html]

      Recommended

• Buckland, M. (1996). Documentation, Information Science, and Library Science in the U.S.A. Information Processing and Management, 32(1), 63-76. [Available from E-Journal at UNC Library]
• Saracevic, T. (1999). Information Science. Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 50(12), 1051-1063. [Available from E-Journal at UNC Library]

3. August 27 (Wed): Research & Information Seeking 

• Kuhlthau, C. C. (1991). Inside the Search Process: Information Seeking from the User's Perspective. Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 42(5), 361-371. [Available from E-Journal at UNC Library]
• Empire State College (2008) Developing a Research Question. Retrieved August 18, 2008 from http://www.esc.edu/esconline/across_esc/writerscomplex.nsf/0/f87fd7182f0ff21c852569c2005a47b7

Recommended

• Fielden, N. L., & Garrido, M. (1998). Chapter 2, The nature of research, Internet Research: Theory and Practice (pp.15-35). Jefferson, NJ: McFarland. [Available from Blackboard]

Week 3

4. September 1 (Mon): No Class, Labor Day

      Due: First draft of research question

5. September 3 (Wed): Information Source Evaluation

• UNC Libraries' Evaluating Information tutorial
• Ormondroyd, J., Engle, M., & Cosgrave, T. (1996). How to critically analyze information sources. Reference Services Division, Cornell University Library.

Recommended

• Graham, Leah and Metaxas, Panagiotis Takis (2003).  ‘Of course it's true; I saw it on the Internet!' Critical Thinking in the Internet Era. Communications of the ACM 46, 70-75. [Available from E-Journal at UNC Library]

 Week 4

6. September 8 (Mon): Basics of World Wide Web

• Sterling, Bruce. (1993). A Short History of the Internet.
• Kleinberg, J., & Lawrence, S. (2001). The Structure of the Web. Science, 294, 1849-1850.
• Notess, G. R. (2002). Dead search engines. Online, 26(3), 62-64.

Recommended

• Feizabadi, S. (1998). History of the Web. In Abrams, M. (ed.), World Wide Web: Beyond the Basics (pp.3-26). Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall. [Available from Blackboard]
• Zakon, Robert H. (2003). Hobbes' Internet Timeline v6.0. (This contains a lot of information that's not relevant to this course, so skim it. Note the entry in 1991: "World-Wide Web (WWW) released by CERN; Tim Berners-Lee developer." Skim a little more closely after this.)

7. September 10 (Wed): Search Engines

• Sullivan, D. (2005). Web Searching Tips. Search Engine Watch.
  • How search engines work and How search engines rank web pages
• Liddy, Elizabeth D. (2001). How a Search Engine Works. Searcher, 9(5), 62-64.
• GoogleGuide: How Google works, Our search: Google technology, How to Interpret your Search Results, Google Web Search Features , About Google Scholar

Week 5

8. September 15 (Mon): Web Search Strategies & Web Site Evaluation

Due: Second draft of research question

• Sullivan, D. (2005). Web Searching Tips. Search Engine Watch.

o        Search Engine Math, Power Searching for Anyone, and Search Assistance Features.

o        For a summary, Search features chart.

Recommended

• Ackermann, E., & Hartman, K. (2000). The Information Specialist's Guide to Searching and Researching on the Internet and the World Wide Web. Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn. [Available from Blackboard]
  • Chapter 6, Search strategies for search engines, 144-153 only

9. September 17 (Wed): The Invisible Web

§         Bergman, Michael K. (2001). The Deep Web: Surfacing Hidden Value. The Journal of Electronic Publishing, 7(1).

Recommended

§         Price, G., & Sherman, C. (2001, Jul/Aug). Exploring the invisible Web: seven essential strategies. Online, 25(4), 32-34. [Available from Blackboard]

Week 6

10. September 22 (Mod): Library Catalog Search

• UNC Libraries Catalog Search Tips
• WorldCat: Read Introduction
• Antelman, K., Lynema, E. & Pace, A. K. (2006). Toward a 21st Century Library Catalog. Information Technology and Libraries, 25(3), 128-139. Available at: http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/staff/kaantelm/antelman_lynema_pace.pdf

11. September 24 (Wed): Use of Library Resources & Services for Research   

• Guest Speaker
• UNC Libraries' Library Research tutorial. http://www.lib.unc.edu/instruct/tutorial/

Week 7

12. September 29 (Mon): Introduction to Research Databases

• Chowdhury, G. G., & Chowdhury, S. (2001). Information Sources and Searching on the World Wide Web. London: Library Association. Chapter 7: Electronic journals. [Available in Blackboard]

Recommended

• Encyclopedia of Library and Information Science. Read: Description and Preface.

• Library Literature & Information Science.  

13. October 1 (Wed): Citation Search    

• Davis, P. M. & Cohen S. A. (2001). The Effect of the Web on Undergraduate Citation Behavior 1996-1999. Journal of the American Society for Information Science & Technology. 52(4), 309-314. [Available from E-Journal]

Week 8

14. October 6 (Mon): Group Report on Information Resources I

15. October 8 (Wed): Group Report on Information Resources II

Week 9

16. October 13 (Mon): Group Report on Information Resources III

17. October 15 (Wed): Group Report on Information Resources IV, Class Cancellation, because of the power failure on campus.

The course schedule was changed from here!  ---------------------------------------

Week 10

18. October 20 (Mon): Group Report on Information Resources IV

19. October 22 (Wed): Multimedia Information Retrieval

      Due: Journal Article Evaluation 

• Tomaiuolo, N. G. (2002). When Image is Everything: Finding and Using Graphics from the Web. Searcher, 10(1). Available at: http://www.infotoday.com/searcher/jan02/tomaiuolo.htm
• Foote, J. (1999). An overview of audio information retrieval. Multimedia Systems, 7(1), 2-10. [Available from UNC's library as an e-journal]

    Recommended Reading

• Pack, T. (2002). Image searching across the Web. Online, 26(1), 30-34. [Available from UNC's library as an e-journal]

Week 11

20. October 27, 29: No Classes. The instructor will be out of town for the ASIST conference.       

• Two things that you need to during this week.
  • Midterm Evaluation Link (Please complete the survey by 5:00 pm on Wednesday)
  • In-class Exercise Make-Up   
    • If you missed any in-class exercises including the ones in group presentations, this is the time for you to make up.
    • Please complete the missed exercises during this week and submit them by next Monday (November 3).
    • You can download the exercises from Blackboard.

Week 12

21. November 3 (Mod): Reference Sources & Services (1)

• Lane, N., Chisholm, M, & Mateer, C. (2000). Techniques for Student Research. New York: Neal-Schuman.
  • Chapter 2, Reference works: finding facts fast, 9-23 [Available in Blackboard]
  • Chapter 9, Locating and selecting reference works, 73-86 [Available in Blackboard]
• Fister, B. (2002). Fear of Reference. Chronicle of Higher Education, 48(40). Available at: http://www.gac.edu/~fister/FearofReference.html

22. November 5 (Wed): Reference Sources & Services (2): Government Information

• Guest Speaker: Beth L. Rowe, Regional Documents Librarian.
• We will meet at 1:55 pm in the lobby of Davis Library. Come to room 247 in the library, if you are late. 

Week 13

23. November 10 (Mon): Wilson Library: Special Collections

• Guest Speaker: Elizabeth Chenault (Rare Book Librarian), Matthew Turi (Manuscripts Reference Librarian) and Jason Tomberlin, (Special Projects Librarian, North Carolina Collection) 
• We will meet at 1:55pm in the lobby of Wilson Library.
• If you're late, please come to the Rare Book Reading Room at the third floor of the Wilson Library.

24. November 12 (Wed): Web 2.0 & 3.0: Semantic Web

      Due: Annotated Bibliography

• O'Reilly, T. (2005). What Is Web 2.0: Design Patterns and Business Models for the Next Generation of Software. Retrieved August 18, 2008 from http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/oreilly/tim/news/2005/09/30/what-is-web-20.html
• Parsia, B. (2002, 26 April). A simple, prima facie argument in favor of the Semantic Web. Retrieved August 18, 2008 from http://www.monkeyfist.com/articles/815

• Markoff, J. (2006, 12 November). Entrepreneurs See a Web Guided by Common Sense. New York Times. [Available in Blackboard]

Week 14

25. November 17 (Mon): Digital Libraries

• Borgman, Christine L. (2000). From Gutenberg to the Global Information Infrastructure. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
  • Chapter 2: Is It Digital or Is It a Library? Digital Libraries and Information Infrastructure. [Available in Blackboard]

26. November 19 (Wed): Copyright & Plagiarism & Course Summary

• UNC Library: Information Ethics Tutorial
• Bartlett, T., & Smallwood, S. (2004, 14 December). Four Academic Plagiarists You've Never Heard Of: How Many More Are Out There? The Chronicle of Higher Education. Available at: http://chronicle.com/free/v51/i17/17a00802.htm

Week 15

27. November 24 (Mon): Research Project Presentation I

28. November 26 (Wed): No Class. Thanksgiving Holiday.

Week 16

29. December 1 (Mon): Research Project Presentation II

30. December 3 (Wed): Research Project Presentation III, & Course Evaluation

Week 17

31. December 8 (Mon): No Class

Due: Final Portfolio

Last Updated: 10/19/2008