N.B. Direct URLs are provided for readings available on the open internet. Articles available through FSU Libraries are listed with their DOI and a direct link via FSU's proxy server. Readings not available online can be found on the "Reserve Readings" page on the course Canvas site.
Week 1) Introduction
Session:
- Monday, August 28 @ 9:00 AM (Class Participation Required)
Readings:
- The Course Syllabus, Weekly Outline, and Assignment Descriptions. Please note that conduct of the course, including grading, will proceed this semester assuming you have carefully read, understand, and agree to adhere to all the requirements in all of these documents.
- Leckie, G.J. (1996). Desperately Seeking Citations: Uncovering Faculty Assumptions about the Undergraduate Research Process. Journal of Academic Librarianship, 22(3), 201-208. doi:10.1016/S0099-1333(96)90059-2 [FSU]
- Case, D.O. (2006). Information Behavior. Annual Review of Information Science and Technology, 40: 293-327. doi:10.1002/aris.1440400114 [FSU]
Labor Day, September 4. No Class on Monday, September 4.
Hurricane Irma. No Class on Monday, September 11.
Week 2) Concepts 1: Classic Papers
Session:
- Monday, September 18 @ 9:00 AM (Class Participation Required)
Readings:
- Belkin, N. (1978). Information Concepts for Information Science. Journal of Documentation, 34(1): 55-85. doi:10.1108/eb026653 [RESERVE]
- Dervin, B. and Nilan, M. (1986). Information Needs and Uses. Annual Review of Information Science and Technology, 21: 3-33. [RESERVE]
- Taylor, R.S. (1991). Information Use Environments. In Dervin, B. (Ed.) Progress in Communication Sciences, v. 10 (pp. 217-225). Norwood, NJ: Ablex. [RESERVE]
Week 3) Concepts 2: Research Articles
Session:
- Monday, September 25 @ 9:00 AM (Class Participation Required)
Readings:
- Latham, K.F. (2012). Museum Object as Document: Using Buckland's Information Concepts to Understand Museum Experiences. Journal of Documentation, 68(1): 45-71. doi:10.1108/00220411211200329 [FSU]
- Hartel, J., Cox, A.M. and Griffin, B.L. (2016). Information Activity in Serious Leisure. Information Research, 21(4). http://InformationR.net/ir/21-4/paper728.html
- Mehra, B., Bishop, B.W., and Partee, R.P. (2017). Small Business Perspectives on the Role of Rural Libraries in Economic Development. Library Quarterly, 87(1): 17-35. doi:10.1086/689312 [FSU]
Week 4) Concepts 3: Discussion Leading
Session:
- Monday, October 2 @ 9:00 AM (Class Participation Required)
Readings:
- Kristie: Shenton, A., & Dixon, P. (2003). Models of young people's information seeking. Journal of Librarianship and Information Science, 35(1), 5-22. [FSU]
- Jeanna: Komissarov, S., & Murray, J. (2016). Factors that Influence Undergraduate Information-seeking Behavior and Opportunities for Student Success. Journal of Academic Librarianship 42, 423-429. doi:10.1016/j.acalib.2016.04.007 [FSU]
- Hany: Al-Wreikat, A., Rafferty, P., & Foster, A. (2015). Cross-language information seeking behaviour English vs Arabic. Library Review, 64(6/7), 446-467. [FSU]
Week 5) Models 1: Classic Papers
Session:
- Monday, October 9 @ 9:00 AM (Class Participation Required)
Readings:
- 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. doi:10.1002/(SICI)1097-4571(199106)42:5<361::AID-ASI6>3.0.CO;2-# [FSU]
- Leckie, G., Pettigrew, K., and Sylvain, C. (1996). Modeling the Information Seeking of Professionals: A General Model Derived from Research on Engineers, Health Care Professionals, and Lawyers. Library Quarterly, 66(2): 161-193. doi:10.1086/602864 [FSU]
- Wilson, T. (1999). Models in Information Behaviour Research. Journal of Documentation, 55(3): 249-270. doi:10.1108/EUM0000000007145 [FSU]
Week 6) Models 2: Research Articles
Session:
- Monday, October 16 @ 9:00 AM (Class Participation Required)
Readings:
- Webber, S. (2013). Blended Information Behavior in Second Life. Journal of Information Science, 39(1): 85-100. doi:10.1177/0165551512469777 [FSU]
- Cole, C., Beheshti, J., Abuhimed, D., and Lamoureux, I. (2015). The End Game in Kuhlthau's ISP Model: Knowledge Construction for Grade 8 Students Researching an Inquiry-Based History Project. Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, 66(11): 2249-2266. doi:10.1002/asi.23300 [FSU]
- Shah, C., Hendahewa, C., and Gonalez-Ibanez, R. (2016). Rain or Shine? Forecasting Search Process Performance in Exploratory Search Tasks. Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, 67(7): 1607-1623. doi:10.1002/asi.23484 [FSU]
Week 7) Models 3: Discussion Leading
Session:
- Monday, October 23 @ 9:00 AM (Class Participation Required)
Readings:
- Lynette: Yang, Z.J., McComas, K.A., Gay, G., Leonard, J.P., Dannenberg, A.J., & Dillon, H. (2011). Information seeking related to clinical trial enrollment. Communication Research, 38(6), 856-882. [FSU]
- Curtis: Case, D.O., Johnson, J.D., Andrews, J.E., Allard, S.L., & Kelly, K.M. (2004). From two-step flow to the Internet: The changing array of sources for genetics information seeking. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 55(8), 660-669. doi: 10.1002/asi.20000 [FSU]
- Maedeh: Foss, E., Druin, A., Brewer, R., Lo, P., Sanchez, L., Golub, E., Hutchinson, H. (2011). Children's search roles at home: Implications for designers, researchers, educators, and parents. Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology 63(3), 558-573. [FSU]
Week 8) Theories 1: Classic Papers
Session:
- Monday, October 30 @ 9:00 AM (Class Participation Required)
Readings:
- Savolainen, R. (1995). Everyday Life Information Seeking: Approaching Information Seeking in the Context of "Way of Life." Library & Information Science Research, 17(3): 259-294. doi:10.1016/0740-8188(95)90048-9 [FSU]
- Chatman, E. (1996). The Impoverished Life-World of Outsiders. Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 47(3): 193-206. doi:10.1002/(SICI)1097-4571(199603)47:3<193::AID-ASI3>3.0.CO;2-T [FSU]
- Dervin, B. (1998). Sense-Making Theory and Practice: An Overview of User Interests in Knowledge Seeking and Use. Journal of Knowledge Management, 2(2): 36-46, doi:10.1108/13673279810249369 [FSU]
Written Assignment 1: Annotated Bibliography. 30 pts. Due Sunday, October 29. Please submit your assignment on Canvas.
Week 9) Theories 2: Research Articles
Session:
- Monday, November 6 @ 9:00 AM (Class Participation Required)
Readings:
- Burnett, G. and Jaeger, P.R. (2008). Small Worlds, Lifeworlds, and Information: The Ramifications of the Information Behaviour of Social Groups in Public Policy and the Public Sphere. Information Research, 13(2). http://InformationR.net/ir/13-2/paper346.html
- Fransen-Taylor, P. and Narayan, B. (2016). #Homeless but at Home in Cyberspace. Information Research, 21(4). http://www.informationr.net/ir/21-4/isic/isic1610.html
- Wang, S. and Yu, J. (2017). Everyday Information Behaviour of the Visually Impaired in China. Information Research, 22(1). http://www.informationr.net/ir/22-1/paper743.html
Week 10) Theories 3: Discussion Leading
Session:
- Monday, November 13 @ 9:00 AM (Class Participation Required)
Readings:
- Castle: Diergarten, A.K., Mockel, R., Nieding, G., and Ohler, P. (2017). The impact of media literacy on children's learning from films and hypermedia. Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology, 48, 33-1. doi: 10.1016/j.appdev.2016.11.007. [FSU]
- Bader: Xanthidis, D., Alali, A.S., and Koutzampasopoulou, O. (2016). Online socializing: How does it affect the information seeking behavior and the educational preferences in Saudi Arabia? Computers in Human Behavior, 60, 425-434. doi: 10.1016/j.chb.2016.02.062. [FSU]
Week 11) Methods 1: Classic Papers
Session:
- Monday, November 20 @ 9:00 AM (Class Participation Required)
Readings:
- Taylor, R.S. (1968). Question-Negotiation and Information Seeking in Libraries. College and Research Libraries, 29(3): 178-194. http://crl.acrl.org/index.php/crl/article/view/12027/13473
- Dervin, B. (1989). Users as Research Inventions: How Research Categories Perpetuate Inequities. Journal of Communication, 39(3): 216-232 doi:10.1111/j.1460-2466.1989.tb01053.x [FSU]
- Bates, M. (1996). Learning about the Information Seeking of Interdisciplinary Scholars and Students. Library Trends, 45(2): 155-164. https://www.ideals.illinois.edu/handle/2142/8083
Week 12) Methods 2: Research Articles
Session:
- Monday, November 27 @ 9:00 AM (Class Participation Required)
Readings:
- Gross, M., and Saxton, M.L. (2002). Integrating the Imposed Query into the Evaluation of Reference: A Dichotomous Analysis of User Ratings. Library & Information Science Research, 24(3): 251-263. doi:10.1016/S0740-8188(02)00125-1 [FSU]
- Agosto, D.E. and Hughes-Hassell, S. (2005). People, Places, and Questions: An Investigation of the Everyday Life Information-Seeking Behaviors of Urban Young Adults. Library & Information Science Research, 27(2): 141-163. doi:10.1016/j.lisr.2005.01.002 [FSU]
- Lustria, M.L.A, Kazmer, M.M., Glueckauf, R.L., Hawkins, R.P., Randeree, E., Rosario, I.B., McLaughlin, C., and Redmond, S. (2010). Participatory Design of a Health Informatics System for Rural Health Practitioners and Disadvantaged Women. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 61(11): 2243-2255. doi:10.1002/asi.21390 [FSU]
Week 13) Conclusions
Session:
- Monday, December 4 @ 9:00 AM (Class Participation Required)
Readings:
- Bates, M.J. (1999). The Invisible Substrate of Information Science. Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 50(12): 1043-1050. doi:10.1002/(SICI)1097-4571(1999)50:12<1043::AID-ASI1>3.0.CO;2-X [FSU]
- N.B. We will also spend some time during this session discussing the most interesting findings from each student's influence paper.
Written Assignment 2: Influence Paper. 40 pts. Due Sunday, December 10. Please submit your assignment on Canvas.