Spring 2009

INLS 200-002: Retrieving & Analyzing Information

[Overview] [Schedule & Reading] [Blackboard]

[Research Question] [Source Evaluation] [Research Project: Final Report]

[Research Database Review]

Course Schedule & Reading

Week 1

1. Jan 12 (Mon): Course Introduction

• No readings.

2. Jan 14 (Wed): 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]

• (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]
• (Recommended) Saracevic, T. (1999). Information Science. Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 50(12), 1051-1063. [Available from E-Journal at UNC Library]

Week 2

3. Jan 19 (Mon): No class. Martin Luther King Jr. Day

4. Jan 21 (Wed): Information Literacy

• Shapiro, J. J. and Hughes, S. 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]

Week 3

5. Jan 26 (Mon): Writing a Research Paper

• Colorado State University (n.d.) An Introduction to Research Process. Retrieved January 7, 2009 from http://writing.colostate.edu/guides/trad_research/intro/index.cfm
• Empire State College (2008) Developing a Research Question. Retrieved August 18, 2008 from http://www.esc.edu/esconline/across_esc/writerscomplex.nsf/0/f87fd7182f0ff21c852569c2005a47b7
• APA Style.org (n.d.) Frequently Asked Questions. Retrieved January 1, 2009 from http://www.apastyle.org/faqs.html

6. Jan 28 (Wed): Copyright & Plagiarism

        Due: First draft of the research question     

• 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
• Todd, M. et al. (n.d.). Companion for Undergraduate Dissertations: Plagiarism. Retrieved January, 7 2009 from http://www.socscidiss.bham.ac.uk/s14.html

Week 4

7. Feb 2 (Mon): Fast Fact Finding for Research

• Fister, B. (2002). Fear of Reference. Chronicle of Higher Education, 48(40). Available at: http://www.gac.edu/~fister/FearofReference.html

8. Feb 4 (Wed): Topic Presentation / Preliminary Research

• Colorado State University (n.d.) An Introduction to Research Process: Conducting a Preliminary Research. Retrieved January 7, 2009 from http://writing.colostate.edu/guides/trad_research/intro/pop2b.cfm

Week 5

9. Feb 9 (Mon): The Information Search Process & Undergraduates' Information Seeking Behaviors  

• 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]
• Kim and Sin (2007). Perception and selection of information sources by undergraduates students. Journal of Academic Librarianship, 33 (6), 655-665. 

10. Feb 11 (Wed): Information Source Evaluation

           Due: Second draft of the research question  

• 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 6

11. Feb 16 (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.

12. Feb 18 (Wed): Search Engines

• Sullivan, D. (2005). Web Searching Tips. Search Engine Watch.
  • How search engines work and How search engines rank web pages
• Notess, G. R. (2002). Dead search engines. Online, 26(3), 62-64.
• Vine, Rita. (2004). The Business of Search Engines. Information Outlook, 8(2), 25-31.

Week 7

13. Feb 23 (Mon): Google

• Google
  • Our search: Google technology
  • How to Interpret your Search Results
  • Google Web Search Features
  • About Google Scholar
  • Google Advertising Programs: Click on the Google AdWords & Google AdSense links & read those pages also.
• Sullivan, D. (2007). Intro To Search Engine Submission, and Submitting To Search Crawlers, from Searchenginewatch.com

14. Feb 25 (Wed): The Invisible Web

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

§    Notess, G. R. (2003, May 28). Search Engine Statistics. Read all of the Size Showdowns.

Week 8

15. Mar 2 (Mon): Use of Library Resources & Library Catalog Search

      Due: Website Evaluation

• 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

16. Mar 4 (Wed): Multimedia Information Retrieval

• Pack, T. (2002). Image searching across the Web. Online, 26(1), 30-34.
• Foote, J. (1999). An overview of audio information retrieval. Multimedia Systems, 7(1), 2-10. [Available from UNC's library as an e-journal]

Week 9

17. Mar 9 (Mon): No Class, Spring Break

18. Mar 11 (Wed): No Class, Spring Break

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Week 10

19. Mar 16 (Mon): Midterm Review & Introduction to Research Databases

    Due: Book Evaluation 　

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

• Library Literature & Information Science.  

20. Mar 18 (Wed): Research Databases, continued

• No readings.

Week 11

21. Mar 23 (Mon): 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]

22. Mar 25 (Wed): Government Resources

• 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 12  

23. Mar 30 (Mon): Web 2.0

      Due: Journal Article Evaluation

• 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

24. Apr 1 (Wed): Web 3.0: Semantic Web

• 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 13

25. Apr 6 (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. Apr 8 (Wed): Research Project Presentation I

        Due: Discipline-specific Database Review

Week 14

27. Apr 13 (Mon): Research Project Presentation II

28. Apr 15 (Mon): Research Project Presentation III

Week 15

29. Apr 20 (Mon): Research Project Presentation IV

30. Apr 22 (Wed): Research Project Presentation V& Course Evaluation

Week 16

31. Apr 27 (Mon): No class.

        Due: Final Portfolio

Last Updated: 03/15/2009