LIB 1201 Course Schedule
All readings and assignments are due at the beginning of class on the date listed below. Please write down and bring at least one question about one of the readings to every class, and come to class prepared to discuss all of the day’s assigned readings.
Mon 1/30 Introduction to the course; review syllabus; sign up for OpenLab
Reading (in class): “Back to the Coffeehouse” (handout)
The Information Landscape: Media and Production
Mon 2/6
1. Brief history of media; the lifecycle of information; traditional print media:journalism, academic/government/research agency publicationsDigital text: online versions of print media, “born digital” content
Reading: Read Badke: Preface, Ch. 1 and Ch. 8; Pavlik pp. 1-8, Harrington and Meade pp. 6-9
Assignment: Write one reading response blog post
Viewing: Common Craft blogs and wikis videos
2. Alternative media: print (zines, pamphlets, etc.) and electronic (blogs, wikis, etc.)
Reading: Eland, Zine World, Wright (Part I only)
Assignment: Comment on at least one blog post
Mon 2/13 College closed; no class or office hours
Mon 2/20 College closed; no class or office hours
Tues 2/21 MONDAY SCHEDULE
1. Non-text media: sound, images, multimedia
Reading: Pavlik pp. 79-84, Malitz, Elton
Assignment: Write one reading response blog post
2. Web 2.0 and participatory media
Reading: Web 2.0 (Wikipedia), Baker; Viewing: Common Craft social media in plain English
Assignment: Comment on at least one blog post
Issues in Information and Media
Mon 2/27
1. Access: personal, institutional, digital divide
Reading: Martin Ch. 7
Assignment: Write one reading response blog post
2. Privacy: changing definitions; challenges of digital media
Reading: Marshall, P. (2009, November 6). Online privacy. CQ Researcher, 19, 933-956.
boyd, d. (2008). Facebook’s privacy trainwreck.
Assignment: Write one reading response blog post
Mon 3/5
1. Ethics: copyright, fair use, plagiarism, open access
Reading: Isserman; Center for Social Media sections “Code” and “Principles” only; Viewing: Grey, Lessig, Faden
Assignment: Write one reading response blog post
How Information and Media Are Organized
2. Metadata: information about information, taxonomies, folksonomies
Reading: Badke Ch. 4, Dye, Harrod
Assignment: Write one research journal blog post; comment on at least one blog post
Mon 3/12
1. Search mechanics: what is a database, how does a search engine work
Reading: Badke Ch. 3, Liddy, Leibman
Assignment: Write one reading response blog post
2. The research process: needs assessment, preliminary strategies, topic development
Reading: Badke Ch. 2
Assignment: Comment on at least one blog post
Finding Information and Media
Mon 3/19
1. The research process: refining a topic, creating search strategies
Reading: Badke Appendix 1 pp. 177-195, review Badke Ch. 3 pp. 34-41
2. Searching: internet
Reading: Badke Ch. 6 (all) and Ch. 7 pp. 122-124; Viewing: Common Craft web search strategies in plain English
Assignment: Write one research journal blog post; see blog for prompt
DUE: Research topic proposal
Mon 3/26
1. Searching: library catalogs
Reading: Badke Ch. 5 pp. 71-76, Library of Congress Classification Outline
Assignment: Write one research journal blog post
2. Searching: article databases
Reading: Badke Ch. 5 pp. 76-95
Assignment: Comment on at least one blog post
DUE: Annotated bibliography
Using Information and Media
Mon 4/2
1. Evaluation of sources in any format: how to evaluate
Reading: UC Berkeley, Cornell
Assignment: Write one research journal blog post
2. Evaluation of sources in any format: why to evaluate; evaluation game
Reading: Fister, Grimmelmann
DUE: Research paper outline
Mon 4/9 class cancelled; Spring Break: Library is OPEN 9-5 Mon-Fri
Mon 4/16
1. Writing an academic research paper
Reading: Badke Ch. 10 and Appendix 1 pp. 196-203
Assignment: Write one research journal blog post
2. Rationale for documentation and citation
Reading: Hauptman pp. 7-13
Assignment: Write one reading response blog post
3. Documentation: standards, methods and styles for citing text and non-text media
Reading: Badke Ch. 9, browse Purdue OWL’s APA and MLA Style sections
DUE: Research paper draft
Mon 4/23
1. Documentation: practical applications
Assignment: Find one example of process documentation in any format, read it, and write one blog post in which you describe, summarize and critique it. Be prepared to discuss your example in class!
Reading: Edge, Robinson
2. Documentation: standards, methods and styles for practices and processes
Mon 4/30 Introduce group project & form groups
DUE: Research paper final version
Mon 5/7
1. Group project work
Presentation of Information and Looking to the Future
2. Future of information and media, wrapping up
Viewing: Sloan
Mon 5/14 Group project work
Mon 5/21 Student Presentations
DUE before the beginning of class: Online documentation project
