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Resources for the e-portfolio to be completed in Spring Semester 09 at SJSU/SLIS
Updated on 2009-11-02
Created on 2009-02-13
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Philosophical foundations and research relevance: issues for information research
Good background article by seminal thinker/researcher in area of information-seeking behavior (T.D. Wilson)
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Information behaviour research is another area where there is some degree of cohesion around models and methods that have won some support (e.g., Wilson, 1981, 1999; Dervin, 1992; Kuhlthau, 1994) and, in that field, there is, perhaps, a developing consensus on an appropriate framework for investigation.
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The information retrieval specialist, on the other hand, conceives of information in terms of strings of symbols, matching query strings against indexed strings. The librarian sees information in terms of the macro containers; books, reports, journals and, now, electronic documents of various kinds, and, indeed of a higher level of organization, the library itself. In other words, information itself is not a unitary concept, but has different levels of organization, around which different theories are built and practices evolved. Consequently, there cannot be a unitary information science, but only different approaches to information from the perspective of the integrative level involved.
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Four Modes of Seeking Information and How to Design for Them - Boxes and Arrows: The design behind the design
Useful for summarizing state of research on information seeking
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510 Reading Journal: 3.2 ASK for Information Retrieval: Part I Background and Theory
Good summary of Belkin's ASK model
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Information behavior theories - LISWiki
Good rundown on all the most prominent researchers on information seeking models
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Hybrid Information Seeking Models
The Web has changed patterns of information weeking, necessitating elaborating on the previous models of information seeking.
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Towards collaboration between information seeking and information retrieval
A 2005 article by Kuhlthau, attempting to find a conceptual framework that incorporates allied areas (not just LIS)
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Presentation Zen: Brain rules for PowerPoint & Keynote presenters
Recommends a good book for rethinking presentation design; slide show worth viewing
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Principle of least effort - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
I must remember to include this principle. It certainly is universal to humans, of any expertise level, at least in most situations.
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ANSWER: Why do we need librarians and libraries anymore now that we have the Internet? | Radical Reference
"The fact that more information = more need for librarians (since often people don't care about others or think about disaster situations) usually gets people agreeing with me when put into that context. People don't know how to create complex, or even good, search strategies and people don't know how to evaluate the information they get."
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YouTube - Berkman Classics: Jonathan Zittrain's iLaw Course
What is the Internet, who controls the content and how information is getting to us?
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YouTube - Communications -- The next decade (part 1)
Ofcom International Conference: Communications and Convergence Challenges For 21st Century Digital Economies: Launch of publication 'Communications -- The next decade:
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Mooers' Law: In and Out of Context
Mooers actually suggested that it was too much trouble to have information because then you'd have to do something about it, and it wasn't about building better databases; his law was adapted to the LIS field to mean the same as the Law of Least Effort. It's an intellectual climate that is the problem. He was pointing to certain specific environments where this is true (such as some companies or laboratories).
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Information needs and uses: fifty years of progress. Information seeking behaviour, Behavior, Information needs, Information use.
An expert in the field of user studies gives some background to the topic.
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Library Research Models: Guide to ... - Google Book Search
Thomas Mann - chapter on Principle of Least Effort (inspired by Zipf's Law of Least Effort) and what most students live by!
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Albert Bandura - Variant of Behaviorism
An easy to understand explanation of behaviorism, crossed with cognitivism and Bandura's social learning theory.
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