LIB 1201 Spring 2013 section 9932 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.
Tues 1/29 Introduction to the course and each other; review syllabus; sign up for OpenLab and join the course site on the OpenLab
The Information Landscape: Media and Production
Thurs 1/31 Brief history of media; the lifecycle of information; traditional print media: journalism, academic/government/research agency publications
Reading: Read Badke: Preface, Ch. 1 and Ch. 8
Assignment: Write one reading response blog post
Tues 2/5 Digital text: online versions of print media, “born digital” content
Reading: Pavlik pp. 1-8, Mod
Viewing: Common Craft blogs and wikis videos
Assignment: Write one reading response blog post
Thurs 2/7 Non-text media: sound, images, multimedia
Reading: Pavlik pp. 79-84, , Sisario, Elton
Assignment: Write one reading response blog post
Discussion facilitators: Shamekia, Tojo
Tues 2/12 College and library closed
Thurs 2/14 Alternative media: print (zines, pamphlets, etc.) and electronic (blogs, wikis, etc.)
Reading: Eland, Zine World, Wright (Part I only)
Assignment: Write one reading response blog post
Discussion facilitators: Ricardo, Jessica, Harpreet
Tues 2/19 Web 2.0, Web 3.0 participatory media, and big data
Reading: Web 2.0 (Wikipedia), Baker, Lohr, Tufte; Viewing: Common Craft social media video
Assignment: Write one reading response blog post
Discussion facilitators: Alae, Erica, Rob
Issues in Information and Media
Thurs 2/21 Class will meet in the library’s multimedia projection room for a viewing of Rip! A Remix Manifesto
Copyright and fair use; open access
Reading:, Center for Social Media sections “Code” and “Principles”; Viewing: Grey, Lessig, Faden
Assignment: Write one reading response blog post
Tues 2/26 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: comment on at least one blog post
Discussion facilitators: Yulan, Hamadi, Delon
Thurs 2/28 Ethics: Plagiarism
Reading: Isserman, Widdicombe
Assignment: Write one reading response blog post
Discussion facilitators: Ling, Jovianne, Bryan
Tues 3/5 Access: personal, institutional, digital divide
Reading: Martin Ch. 7, Samuelson
Assignment: Write one reading response blog post
Discussion facilitators: Carlos, Julissa, Joseph
How Information and Media Are Organized
Thurs 3/7 Metadata: information about information, taxonomies, folksonomies
Reading: Badke Ch. 4, Dye, Harrod
Assignment: Comment on at least one blog post
Discussion facilitators: Virgilio, Luis
Tues 3/12 Search mechanics: what is a database, how does a search engine work
Reading: Badke Ch. 3, Liddy, Agostini
Assignment: Write one reading response blog post
Finding Information and Media
Thurs 3/14 The research process: needs assessment, preliminary strategies, topic development
Reading: Badke Ch. 2
Assignment: Comment on at least one blog post
DUE: Research topic proposal draft
Tues 3/19 The research process: refining a topic, creating search strategies
Reading: Badke Appendix 1 pp. 177-195, review Badke Ch. 3 pp. 34-41
Assignment: Write one research journal blog post; see blog for prompt
Thurs 3/21 Searching: internet
Reading: Badke Ch. 6 (all) and Ch. 7 pp. 122-124; Viewing: Common Craft web search strategies video
DUE: Research topic proposal final
Tues 3/26 Spring Break; college and library are OPEN
Thurs 3/28 Spring Break; college and library are OPEN
Tues 4/2 Spring Break; college and library are OPEN
Thurs 4/4 Searching: library catalogs
Reading: Badke Ch. 5 pp. 71-76, Library of Congress Classification Outline
Assignment: Write one research journal blog post; see blog for prompt
Tues 4/9 Searching: article databases
Reading: Badke Ch. 5 pp. 94-120
DUE: Annotated bibliography
Using Information and Media
Thurs 4/11 Evaluation of sources in any format: how to evaluate
Reading: UC Berkeley, Cornell
Assignment: Write one research journal blog post; see blog for prompt
Tues 4/16 Evaluation of sources in any format: why to evaluate; evaluation game
Reading: Fister, Grimmelman
Assignment: Comment on at least one blog post
DUE: Research paper outline
Thurs 4/18 Writing an academic research paper
Reading: Badke Ch. 10 and Appendix 1 pp. 196-203
Assignment: Write one research journal blog post
Tues 4/23 Rationale for documentation and citation
Reading: Hauptman pp. 7-13
Assignment: Write one reading response blog post
Thurs 4/25 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
Monday, 4/29 Research paper draft is due by 2:30 p.m.
Tues 4/30 Documentation: practical applications
Reading: Edge, Robinson
Thurs 5/2 Documentation: standards, methods and styles for practices and processes
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!
Tues 5/7 Introduce group project & form groups
Presentation of Information and Looking to the Future
Thurs 5/9 Group project work
DUE: Research paper final version
Tues 5/14 Group project work
Thurs 5/16 Group project work
Tues 5/21 Student Presentations
Thurs 5/23 Student Presentations
DUE before the beginning of class: Online documentation project
