Information Agencies and Their Environments LIS 450

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Information Agencies and Their Environment(s)LIS
450

• Session 1
• Introductions
• Syllabus
• Reading

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Agenda

• Who we all are
• Useful web pages, and other minutiae
• Course syllabus structure, activities and
  assignments
• Critical reading, and the reading journal
• Form groups, discuss readings
• What to do for next week

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Useful web pages, etc.

• My UW http//www.wisc.edu/
• Instructor http//slisweb.lis.wisc.edu/cpawley/
• Class resource page
• http//slisweb.lis.wisc.edu/cpawley/Pawley450Reso
  urces.html
• SLIS Library http//slislib.library.wisc.edu/
• Class email listcheck your UW email often!

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Course Structure Topics Professionalism
(ethics, values) Library organizations (ALA
etc.) Uses, users, communities LIS research,
publication Technology in social context who
uses technology, what for, how, why? Pedagogy
librarians as teachers
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Class themes

• 1. Standardization . . .
• 2. Local/global
• 3. Public/private
• 4. Virtual/physical space
• 5. Education/entertainment
• 6. Neutrality/advocacy
• 7. Users/providers
• 8. Ownership/Access

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• Underlying dimensions
• Ethics
• History
• Culture
• Power
• Technology

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Activities and assignments

• Class format lecture/discussion
• Class participation
• Four writing assignments
• Reflective paper
• Group project

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Reading

• Class discussions are for analysis, not the
  transfer of information
• Consider starting a reading group
• Be an active reader! Ask questions, take notes!

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For each reading, ask

• Who is the author?
• Who is the intended audience?
• What kind of a publication is this (publisher,
  format etc.)?
• What might the authors purposes be, in
  writing this?
• When and where was it written?
• What is my (or others) response?
• What else?

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Taking notes on reading

• Full bibliographic citation
• Chapter and segment headings, and list main
  points within this framework
• Page numbers for the ideas or information you
  write down
• Note anything you don't understand
• Write down at least one especially "meaningful"
  sentence for each chapter or article.

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For next week

• Make a name tag and bring it to class
• Read the assigned readings, choose your MIS,
  start your reading journal
• Think about your theme
• If you are group recorder, email your group and
  me
• Anything else . . . ?

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Form Discussion Groups

• Introduce yourself
• One person volunteer as recorder for today
• Collect email addresses
• By next Monday, email group instructor, include
  names in alphabetical order, email addresses, and
  group theme. Use 450 Groups as subject.

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. . . in Discussion Groups

• Discuss readings
• Share MISs
• Think about your theme, and jot down some ideas
  about what at this stage you think it means to
  you
• Keep thinking about these ideas, and include them
  in your reading journal during the week