This  syllabus includes all the required readings for the course, all of the required assignments and a complete outline of the topics in the order we will cover them. We may add information about additional meetings and workshops that will be held while you are on campus; but we will not change the required course work. Please post a note on the Moodle if you find any broken links or have trouble with downloads.

The teaching faculty does use this Moodle as a place to add interesting tidbits and information or possible use to you, so please check it regularly during the course.  

Leigh Estabrook, 502 instructor
Professor and Dean Emerita, UIUC
leighe@illinois.edu

News and Discussion Forums

Academic Issues

University Library and other Resources

[note: There is no LIS departmental library; instead, there is an LIS Virtual Library that emphasizes anytime, anywhere e-resources.  Please visit it!  We do have a special LIS librarian, Sue Searing, who will be a help to you in numerous ways throughout your LEEP life.  Sue is available during office hours in GSLIS 244 or by appointment.]

During your on-campus stay the Main Library Building hours are:
M-F: 8:30am-6pm; Sa & Su: 1-5pm.   The Grainger Engineering Library has the longest hours of any campus library: M-Th: 8:30am-12 Midnight; F: 8:30am-6pm; Sa & Su: 1-8pm.

Social Stuff

Tracking Paper Forum

Group Presentation Forums--information will be distributed on Saturday at the conclusion of meeting 2

Final Exam 

Summary of assignments
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THURSDAY, July 8

8-10 Tech staff available to answer questions; help with laptops; and take bio pics. Drop in anytime during this period. (LIS 242)
8:30-9 Check in at GSLIS main office (LIS 112)
9-10 Students get I-Cards at IU Bookstore (809 S Wright St)
10-10:10 Welcome + UIUC/GSLIS overview (Smith, Montague--LIS 126)
10:10-10:30 Brief student intros (LIS 126)
10:30-10:45 Brief staff intros (LIS 126)
10:45-11 Schedule overview (Montague--LIS 126)
11-11:15 MS program info session (Edwards, Montague--LIS 126)
11:10- 11:40 Q&A (Edwards, Montague, Smith--LIS 126)
11:40- 12 OSFA optional for students seeking financial aid (LIS 126)
12-1 Optional walking tour (Gengler--meet in LIS e foyer)
1:30-2:30 Intro to GSLIS technology (Tech team--LIS 126)
2:30-3:15 Intro to GSLIS advising (Edwards--LIS 126)
3:30-4:30 Optional Technology Open House - Tech team will address any unanswered questions or concerns regarding GSLIS technology (LIS 12 [LRL] & 52 [CTL)
5-6:30 LEEP Unplugged & Opening Pizza (Montague, LIS 126)

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FRIDAY, July 9

Group A
8-9 Tech training I: Moodle (Tech team--LIS 52)
9:15-10:15 Tech training II: LEEP Live Sessions (Tech team--LIS 52)
[Walk to Library]
10:45-11:30 Library orientation I: Main Library tour (Searing--meet at library entrance at Wright & Armory)
11:30-12:45 Library orientation II: Overview of online library resources (Searing--UGL 291, 1402 W Gregory Dr)

Group B
8-8:45 Library orientation I: Main Library tour (Searing--meet at library entrance at Wright & Armory)
8:45-10 Library orientation II: Overview of online library resources (Searing--UGL 291, 1402 W Gregory Dr)
[Walk to GSLIS]
10:30-11:30 Tech training I: Moodle (Tech team--LIS 52)
11:45-12:45 Tech training II: LEEP Live Sessions (Tech team--LIS 52)

1:30-2:30 Optional library workshop: Finding LIS articles online (Searing--LIS 52)
6:30-7:30 Optional library workshop: Finding LIS articles online (Searing--LIS 52)


3:30-5:00 p.m. 
Room 126 LIS Building (all lectures will be held in this room)
Meeting 1
Introduction to 502: describing the field; understanding the information transfer cycle

[Scope note: putting this course in the context of other LIS courses and as a required course; personal introductions of instructors; discussion of design, purpose and goals of the course; reviewing the domains of library science and information science as they have converged, diverged, grown and prospered]

Readings: 
Braman, Sandra.  "Defining Information: An Approach for Policy Makers." Telecommunications Policy, September, 1989 (pp. 233-242).(Available via course e-reserves)

Estabrook, Leigh. " Library and Information Science" in Encyclopedia of the Library and Information Sciences.  (See link at the bottom of this unit)

Fuller, Wayne E. “Diffusion of Knowledge,” Chapter 4 in The American Mail: Enlarger of the Common Life. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1972: 109-47. (Available via course e-reserves)

Mill, John Stuart. " On the Liberty of Thought and Discussion ." On Liberty, chapter 2. (Originally published in 1869. Available in many places if you do not want the linked Web copy.)


a note on the use of PowerPoint in the class:  I do create PowerPoint slides for each lecture because students indicate they are useful; but I think I might not show them in class this summer, except when I want to use live links--or examples.  You will find a link to the slides for a particular meeting just at the bottom of the information for that class session.  You might find it useful to print them out in "handout" or "notes" format on which you can take notes.  I am  sympathetic to those who think this software is a travesty [see, for example, We Have Met the Enemy and He Is PowerPoint].  

10 minutes after the end of class for about one hour same room (126) for everyone:

Organizational and general informational meeting with teaching assistants
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SATURDAY July 10

10:45-noon
Meeting 2
Books:  from Johann Gutenberg to Project Gutenberg 

[Scope note: We begin our discussion by talking about books--beginning mostly in the 16th century with the invention of printing and some its impacts (real and imagined) to the current day with debates about the future of the printed book.  I have listed a number of resources at the bottom of this section for those who are particularly interested in book history.   Meetings 2 and 3 are newly conceived this summer, and I suspect the two may intertiwne in our discussions.]

Readings:

Auletta,Ken.  PUBLISH OR PERISH: Can the iPad topple the Kindle, and save the book business? The New Yorker, April 26, 2010

Clanchy, M.T. "Looking Back from the Invention of Printing." Quarterly Journal of the Library of Congress, 39(3):169-183

Crain, Caleb.  "Twilight of the Books: What will life be like if people stop reading?," The New Yorker, December 24, 2007.

Darnton, Robert.  "Google and the New Digital Future." New York Review of Books December 17, 2009.

Duguid, Paul.  Inheritance and loss? A brief survey of Google Books. 
First Monday, volume 12, number 8 (August 2007)


Optional readings:

"The Long Goodbye? The Book Business and its Woes," by Elisabeth Sifton. June 8, 2009 in The Nation . 

Some other resources:

The Rare Book & Manuscript Library at the University of Illinois has a current exhibit: "Introducing Non Solus: A Blog for Book Lovers".  It is in room 346 of the Main Library Building.   A wonderful opportunity for you to explore one gem of the UIUC library system and to stimulate your thinking about today's topic.

History of the Book (Voice of the Shuttle).
Noon-12:15 or thereabouts
Select groups for group presentation
We will give you a choice of topics for these presentations at this time, and then give you time to form groups of no more than 8 individuals on each topic.  Before leaving you must sign up on a group list of individuals participating and then return to your seat for one brief exercise.

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2:15-3:45
Meeting 3
Literacy and Reading

Readings :

Blair, Ann.  "Reading Strategies for Coping with Information Overload, ca. 1550-1700," Journal of the History of Ideas 64 (2003), pp. 11-28.  (e-reserves --available also through JSTOR)

McPherson, Tara.  "A Rule Set for the Future," The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Series on Digital Media and Learning 2007 : 1-23 

Ong, Walter J.  "Print, Space and Closure" in Orality and Literacy.  New York: 2002, pp. 117-138. (see link at the bottom of this unit)

Radway, Janice A. "Reading is Not Eating: Mass-Produced Literature and the Theoretical, Methodological, and Political Consequences of a Metaphor." Book Research Quarterly 2 (Fall 1986): 7-29. (available through e-reserves)

Related sources:

Deep Blue (University of Michigan)
ScholarlyCommons@Penn (University of Pennsylvania) http://repository.upenn.edu/

4:00-5:00 Optional library workshop -- Tracking paper resources (Searing--LIS 52) - Attending TA's: Miriam Sweeney and Safiya Noble

5:00-6:00 Optional library workshop -- Tracking paper resources (Searing--LIS 52) - Attending TA's: Jeff Ginger


6:30-8:00 pm
Discussion section 1

Readings: Braman, Estabrook, Mill, Fuller, Auletta, Clanchy, Crain, Darnton, Duguid 

In sections we will further engage the readings and concepts covered so far in lecture. They are opportunities for exploring, challenging, and questioning the issues. 

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SUNDAY July 11

GROUP A: 9:30-10:30 Hands-on Tech Training/HTML, SeaMonkey, Uploading Files GSLIS Room 52

GROUP B: 10:30-11:30 Hands-on Tech Training/HTML, SeaMonkey, Uploading Files GSLIS Room 52

12-1:30pm
Meeting 4 
The role of libraries, archives and museums in preserving and distributing information and culture 

[Scope note: an examination of  roles of libraries, archives, institutional repositories, data repositories, and museums as collectors, organizers and distributors of culture and information.  What are their symbolic purposes--why are they important even for individuals who do not use them?]

Readings:

Augst, Thomas. "Faith in Reading: Public Libraries, Liberalism, and the Civil Religion." in The Institutions of Reading, ed. Thomas Augst. Amherst, Ma: The University of Massachusetts Press, 2007. (Available via course e-reserves.)

Borges, Jorge Luis.  The Library of Babel

"Couple in the Cage." A 30 minute video as a way to think about museums.  It will be on reserve at the library and we will also arrange if possible at least one showing in our classroom (not during class time) early in our semester.  (Available via course reserves while on campus--not remotely.)

Jimerson, R. (2005). "Embracing the Power of Archives." Society of American Archivists, Presidential Address.

Leigh, Robert D. The Public Library in the United States: The General Report of the Public Library Inquiry New York: Columbia University Press, 1950 (Available via course e-reserves.)

Summit, Jennifer. "Monuments and Ruins: Spenser and the Problem of the English Library." ELH, 70:1 (Spring, 2003, pp. 1-34) 

the more things change, the more they stay the same. I think the issues discussed in this article are profoundly important today--in the creation and destruction of national libraries, in decisions about preservation, and ultimately in how people seek to define the physical library when increasing amounts of material are available digitally.

For more background on the Fairie Queene, see:
http://www.sparknotes.com/poetry/fqueen/summary.html
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5:00-6:30pm 
Discussion section 2

Readings: Blair, McPherson, Ong, Radway, Augst, Borges, "Couple in the Cage", Kimerson, Leigh, Summit

In sections we will further engage the readings and concepts covered so far in lecture. They are opportunities for exploring, challenging, and questioning the issues. 

Related sources:

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MONDAY, July 12 - new meeting times below


11:00-12:30pm
Meeting 5
The current work environment: multiple professions, professional striving, and transformation of work 

[Scope note: you are enrolled in a professional degree program; but what profession? we will examine notions of professionalism/occupational divisions (beware, I am a sociologist by training and inclination). We will also explore important concepts about leadership, groups, and relationships across the boundaries.]

Abbott, Andrew. "Professionalism and the Future of Librarianship." Library Trends 46(3) (Winter, 1998) 430-443. Available through IDEALS: http://www.ideals.uiuc.edu/handle/2142/8161

Codes of Ethics of various professions

"Library Bill of Rights: The Policy," in American Library Association, Intellectual Freedom Manual. Fifth Edition. Chicago: ALA, 1996: 3-4.

Miller, E.J. and Rice A.K.  System of Organization.  London: Tavistock Publications, Ltd.  1967.  pp. 43-69.  (See link at the bottom of this unit)

Pawley, Christine.  "Unequal Legacies: Race and Multiculturalism in the LIS Curriculum," Library Quarterly. 76:2 (2006) pp 149-169.(Available via course e-reserves.)

Related Resources:

American Library Association Office for Intellectual Freedom
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4:00-5:30pm
Meeting 6  for some reason the slides for this lecture will not load and be saved.  I will keep trying; but a variety of work-arounds so far have not helped.  LSE

Major professional challenges: the case of intellectual freedom and censorship
[Scope note: for those preparing to be librarians some of the most complex issues center around issues of intellectual freedom. What is your professional obligation? what are the rights of community members who fund your library? how do you manage your personal disagreements with professional (i.e., ALA) policy? We will look at some of the history of the debates; research findings and a few cases.]

Readings:

American Library Association.  Freedom to Read Statement

Asheim, Lester. "Not Censorship but Selection" (1953)
http://www.ala.org/ala/aboutala/offices/oif/basics/notcensorship.cfm

Asheim, Lester. "Selection and Censorship: A Reappraisal" (1983) (Available via course e-reserves)

Refer back to JS Mill article, "On Liberty of Thought and Discussion," from Day 2. This reading is particularly relevant to discussions of intellectual freedom.

Freire, Paulo. "The Adult Literacy Process as Cultural Action for Freedom." Harvard Educational Review 40 (May 1970): 205-225. (Available via course e-reserves)

We have on reserve in the Center for Children's Books, several young adult books that were challenged at the West Bend (WI) Public Library. Please visit the CCB to review these books while you are on campus.  CCB is open Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday from 10am-3pm.

Also, choose EITHER
Info about the West Bend Public Library (Wisconsin) book challenges against their GLBTQ collection:
-CNN, Library fight riles up city, leads to book-burning demand
- WBPL's listing of books included in their GLBTQ fiction and non-fiction collection
- National Coalition Against Censorship (NCAC), Interview with Maria Hanrahan, founder of West Bend Parents for Free Speech
- YouTube videos of library board meetings in West Bend where you can hear citizens concerns from their own mouths.

OR:

Info about the Pernkopf anatomy atlas:
-NYT, Doctor's Question Use of Nazi's Medical Atlas
-Ethics and access to teaching materials in the medical library: the case of the Pernkopf atlas
-Street Anatomy blog, The Pernkopf Anatomy Atlas: Tainted Beauty

Additional Resources

Melanson, Mike. Court says Internet Filtering in Public Libraries not censorship. (May 7th, 2010). New York Times


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6:15-7:45pm
Discussion section 3
Readings: Abbott, Codes of Ethics, Library Bill of Rights, Miller, Pawley, ALA, Asheim, Mill (again!), Freire, West Bend Public Library books (look at one)

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TUESDAY, July 13 - Semester break begins this afternoon- new meeting times


2:30-4:00pm
Meeting 7 
Scholarly publishing and scholarly communication 

[Scope note: the special case of scholarly publishing--economic changes, technological changes and the opportunities they open up; publication formats; changing patterns of research; provosts, librarians, publishers and scholarly societies]

Readings: 

Read this article first! A dense, but extremely important new article in

Cope, Bill & and Kalantzis, Mary. (2009) Signs of epistemic disruption: Transformations in the knowledge system of the academic journal. First Monday , (14)4.

Harley, Diane, Acord, Sophia Krzys, Earl-Novell, Sarah, Lawrence, Shannon, & King, C. Judson. (2010). Assessing the Future Landscape of Scholarly Communication: An Exploration of Faculty Values and Needs in Seven Disciplines - Executive Summary. UC Berkeley: Center for Studies in Higher Education.

Lynch, Clifford. The 20th Annual Elizabeth W. Stone Lecture.  April, 20, 2010.  It begins at minute 17--long local stuff--if you can't forward to it, go make a sandwich. I always find his thoughts stimulating and useful for thinking differently. [audio lecture--not something written--we will try to get an mp3 version for you.] 

Salo, Dorothea. (2008). Innkeeper at the Roach Motel. Library Trends, (57)2, 98-123.

Striphas, Ted. “Acknowledged Goods: Cultural Studies and the Politics of Academic Journal Publishing,” Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies 7(1) (March 2010), pp. 3-25. (Available via course e-reserves)

This essay explores the changing context of academic journal publishing and cultural studies’ envelopment within it. It does so by exploring five major trends affecting scholarly communication today: alienation, proliferation, consolidation, pricing, and digitization. More specifically, it investigates how recent changes in the political economy of academic journal publishing have impinged on cultural studies’ capacity to transmit the knowledge it produces, thereby dampening the field’s political potential. It also reflects on how cultural studies’ alienation from the conditions of its production has resulted in the field’s growing involvement with interests that are at odds with its political proclivities.

Related Resources: 

See the Information in Society Lecture Series at GSLIS. These guest lecturers include Ted Striphas, Richard John, Laura DeNardis, and Bronwyn Parry and other public programs are available via the GSLIS Web site, Lecture Archives.

UIUC has a wonderfully useful blog: "Issues in Scholarly Communication." (Peruse the past year or so.)

The Changing Landscape of Scholarly Communication in the Digital Age-- a symposium at Texas A&M in February 2009. Something to peruse and listen to when you can't read anymore

(UIUC 11/9/07) 

Openlibrary.org blog

4:00-5:00pm
Meeting with students thinking about taking the course for 4 credit hour



1-2 Optional Group Advising (Edwards--242)

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WEDNESDAY, July 14 - Semester break ends this afternoon

1-2 Optional Group Advising (Edwards--131)

3:00-4:30pm 
Meeting 8
Information policy: issues of ownership and intellectual property, copyright

[Scope note: we will only begin to touch on the complex issues of related to owning and borrowing information. Policy and law deeply affect the ways in which information professionals work and some in class will find themselves in jobs that support strong copy and digital rights; many of you--particularly the librarians--will be fighting for broader rights for users. A number of the readings thus focus on the nature of "fair use" and rights of libraries.] 

Readings:

Lessig, Lawrence. Introduction to Free Culture (2003). 

"Amen Break," Video about the a drum solo performed by G.C. Coleman in 1969 that has been sampled extensively ever since.  [on course reserve on campus--not remotely]

Schiller, Herbert. Chapter 3 “Data Deprivation” in Information Inequality: the Deepening Social Crisis in America (1996) (Available via course e-reserves.)

Vaidhyanathan, Siva “Afterword—Critical Information Studies: A Bibliographic Manifesto” Cultural Studies 20(2/3) in "The Politics ofIntellectual Properties" edited by Ted Striphas & Kembrew McLeod

In March, 2008 a group of copyright experts issued a report on Section 108 (regarding copyright and libraries). The work was initiated and sponsored by the United States Copyright Office and the National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program of the Library of Congress. You are asked to read the report's executive summary

There are several primers on copyright. We are having you look at Stanford Copyright and Fair Use because of the detail on fair use. See also related resources.
Related Resources:
An excellent resource for librarians is a site maintained by the Harvard Law School called Copyright for Librarians. It is essentially a self-study course and also provides a perspective beyond U.S. copyright law.  Copyright for Librarians is a joint project of the Berkman Center for Internet & Society and Electronic Information for Libraries (eIFL), a consortium of libraries from 50 countries in Africa, Asia and Europe. The goal of the project is to provide librarians in developing and transitional countries information concerning copyright law. More specifically, it aspires to inform librarians concerning:
    • copyright law in general
    • the aspects of copyright law that most affect libraries
    • how librarians in the future could most effectively participate in the processes by which copyright law is interpreted and shaped."

The Library of Congress has a "copyright primer " and the American Library Association and Association of College and Research Libraries also provides basic information about copyright. Cornell University Law School provides a brief definition of copyright law with good links to key cases (click thru the fundraising screen for the Cornell Law School to get to the resource for this section of the class) .

An example of folks fighting back against the current copyright models http://futureofmusic.org/issues/campaigns/rock-net

And if you are looking for an example of parody and have read The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo--see this New Yorker article
4:45-6:00pm 
Discussion section 4
Readings: Cope, Harley, Lynch, Salo, Striphas, Lessig, "Amen Break," Schiller, Vaidyanathan, Section 108, Stanford Copyright and Fair Use
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THURSDAY, July 15

8:30-10:00am 
Please remember 8:30 starting time (new group will be coming in and pounding at the door beginning about 9:45)
Meeting 9 
Information policy: the legal and extra-legal environment of information work. examples will include the. USA PATRIOT Act; and access to presidential records 

Readings: 

Airbrushing History, American Style by Scott Althaus and Kalev Leetaru, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (November 25, 2008)

On removal of government information from depository libraries, see Susman memo or look at the Secrecy Report Card 2009. 

Foerstel, Herbert N. Refuge of a Scoundrel: the Patriot Act in Libraries. Westport, CT: Libraries Unlimited, 2004. Chapter 1 (pp 1-44). This chapter is about the precursor to the USA PATRIOT Act -- the FBI Awareness Program. (Available via course e-reserves)

Jacobs, James A. James R. Jacobs and Shinjoung Yeo. "Government Information in the Digital Age: The Once and Future Federal Depository Library Program." The Journal of Academic Librarianship Volume 31, Issue 3 , May 2005, Pages 198-208

Related Resources:

Library Research Center survey on U.S. public libraries and the USA PATRIOT Act. Survey 1 and Survey 2.

"Declassification in Reverse: The Pentagon and the U.S. Intelligence Community's Secret Historical Document Reclassification Program,"edited by Matthew M. Aid. Posted - February 21, 2006

Wikileaks is a Sweden-based organization that publishes anonymous submissions and leaks of sensitive documents from governments and other organizations, while preserving the anonymity of their sources.

Pieterse, J. N. (2005). “Digital Capitalism and Development: the Unbearable Lightness of ICT4D” in Geert Lovink and Soenke Zehle (Eds), Incommunicado Reader. Amsterdam: Institute of Network Cultures.

UIUC Library's Bean Counter (circulation reports) 

Free Government Information - blog


10:30-12:00pm 
Discussion section 5

Readings: Airbrushing History, Susman memo, Secrecy Report, Foerstel, Jacobs


3:30-5:00pm 
Meeting 10 
Key dynamics between information organizations and their "owning" communities: the history and complexity of dealing with difference 

Readings: 

"Classism in the Stacks: Libraries and Poor People ," by Sanford Berman (former head of cataloging at Hennepin County Library) , in Street Spirit a publication of the American Friends Service Committee. February 2006. (Available via course e-reserves)

OR this wonderfully written article: Tomgram: Ward, How the Public Library Became Heartbreak Hotel. (The link includes an article by recently retired Assistant Director of the Salt Lake City Public Library, Chip Ward. "What They Didn't Teach Us in Library School: The Public Library as an Asylum for the Homeless.") (Available via course e-reserves) 

Malone , C. K. Unannounced and Unexpected: The Desegregation of Houston Public Library in the Early 1950s . Library Trends v. 55 no. 3 (Winter 2007) p. 665-74 (Available via course e-reserves) 

McIntosh, Peggy. "White Privilege and Male Privilege: A Personal Account of Coming to see Correspondences through Work in Women's Studies." in Race, Class, and Gender: an Anthology, edited by Margaret L. Andersen and Patricia Hill Collins, 4th ed., pp. 95-105. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth/Thomson Learning, 2001. (Available via course e-reserves) 

Olden, A. “For Poor Nations a Library Services Is Vital”: Establishing a National Public Library Service in Tanzania in the 1960s . The Library Quarterly v. 75 no. 4 (October 2005) p. 421-45 [I hope also to have someone come speak briefly about current work in Tanzania funded by the Carnegie Corporation.] (Available via course e-reserves)

Rothbauer, Paulette. "People Aren't Afraid anymore, but It's hard to Find Books," The Canadian Journal of Information and Library Science /La Revue canadienne des sciences de l'information et de bibliotheconomie 28:3, 2004 pp. 53-75. (Available via course e-reserves) [ beyond Radway ]


6:30-8:00pm 
Meeting 11 
Group presentations 
[Scope note: a chance to be introduced to topics we haven't covered during the semester, a chance to experience a variety of forms of presentation, a chance to have fun.] 
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FRIDAY, July 16

9:00-10:30am 
Meeting 12 
Major professional challenges: evaluation and assessment of information use, users and uses 

Readings:

Barron, Daniel, et. al., The Economic Impact of Libraries in South Carolina.  University of South Carolina, 2005

Institute of Museum and Library Services, bibliography of resources on Outcome Based Evaluation criteria and methods. [peruse--see what's out there--spend a little time with this website.]

Lance, Keith. "The Impact of School Library Media Centers on Academic Achievement" is a classic and critical article. It appeared originally in School Library Media Research 22:3, Spring, 1994 

Taylor, Robert S. Value-added Processes in Information Systems . Norwood, N.J.: Ablex Publishing Corporation, 1986. Chapter 2, "The Value of Information." ( Available via course e-reserve. ) 

How do you respond? libraries-who-needs-them 

10:45-11:30am 
Discussion section 6
Readings: Berman, Ward, Malone, McIntosh, Olden, Rothbauer, Barron, IMLS bib of resources, Lance, Taylor

12-1:30 General Advising & Closing Lunch (Edwards, Montague, Smith--126)

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Saturday JULY 17

8:30-10:00am - please remember 8:30 starting time
Meeting 13
Major Professional Challenges: Continued media consolidation and commodification, user created content: shifting patterns of creation, distribution and uses of information and its challenges to our institutions and work.  

Readings:

Allen-Griel and MacArthur.  Small Towns and Big Cities: How Museums Foster Community On-line.  Museums and the Web conference 2010.

boyd, danah [forthcoming paper] White Flight in Networked Publics? How Race and Class Shaped AmericanTeen Engagement with MySpace and Facebook.

NewsWar Part III: What's Happening to the news? Frontline.Aired February 27th, 2007, parts four and six:
four: The New Universe of Online Media 
six: The Story of the Los Angeles Times

Nichols, John and  McChesney, Robert W. "The Death and Life of Great American Newspapers," The Nation, April 6, 2009.

Tschang, F. Ted and Comas, Jordi.  "Developing virtual worlds: The interplay of design, communities and rationality."  First Monday, Volume 15, Number 5 - 3 May 2010

As I read this article I thought it had profound implications for how we think about public librarians.  Should public librarians think of themselves as "game developers"--particularly in relation to our user community?  [I don't think we are there yet, but trying to.]  See this presentation if you are curious about what libraries are doing in this direction]

Roberts, Sarah. "Losing the news: confronting the newspaper crisis in libraries and in America". Draft copy.  Classroom version 1 [in the process of revision so a later version may be posted before or during class].

Sharing, Privacy and Trust in Our Networked World
This OCLC membership report explores this web of social participation and cooperation on the Internet and how it may impact the library’s role, including:
    • The use of social networking, social media, commercial and library services on the Web
    • How and what users and librarians share on the Web and their attitudes toward related privacy issues
    • Opinions on privacy online
    • Libraries’ current and future roles in social networking

Here are some examples of user collaboration

Jonathan Furner. (2007) User tagging of library resources: Toward a framework for system evaluation. World Library and Information Congress: 73rd IFLA General Conference and Council

Stallman, Richard. (1985) The GNU Manifesto.

Springer, M. et al (October, 2008) For the Common Good: The Library of Congress FLickr Pilot Project

Related Resources:

LibraryThing: LibraryThing is a social Website where you can create your own personal library catalog and then share, review, and tag books with other members.

Flickr Commons: Library of Congress and other cultural institution collections in Flickr photo sharing Website.

Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF)

Group blog on social software, "Many-to-Many."

Computers in libraries conference

FINAL EXAM - 12 noon - 2pm

Resources: