10/1:  Introduction to concept mapping

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Concept mapping is a technique that helps to guide reflective and critical reading.
Apply this technique to your reading of Saracevic (1992) and Brookes (1980) next week.
Bring your concept map to the class session one week from today (10/8).

 Broad Guidelines 

	Read the article carefully. Do not attempt to write a summary or use a highlighter pen to mark ideas. Immediately after reading the article, determine the central or focus concepts and issues that emerge. Use the abstract of the paper to confirm this.
	Re-read the paper; concentrate on extending your understanding of the central concept by identifying important subordinate concepts, words phrases, statements of relationships. Begin listing these.
	Once you have generated a list, rank the concepts from the most abstract and inclusive to the most concrete and specific.
	Begin to cluster your concepts. Make judgments about the closeness of association using two criteria At a similar level of abstraction Directly related, i.e. one concept is directly explained in terms of the other
	Arrange your concepts as a two dimensional array incorporating the hierarchies previously determined
	Link related concepts with lines and directional arrows, labeling each line clearly with brief explanatory notes. Work with one pair of concepts at a time.

For more information about concept mapping, see: 

Novak, J.D. and Gown, B. (1984). Learning how to learn. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Chapter 2 – Concept mapping for meaningful learning.

One copy of this chapter is available to borrow from the reference area outside MGH 420. 

10/3:  Foundations of Human Information Behavior - Origins of Information Science

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Slides - NEW!

Download the PowerPoint presentation.

Readings - available on Electronic Reserve

Shera, J.H. and Cleveland, D.B. (1977). History and foundations of information science. Annual Review of Information Science and Technology 12: 249-275.

Buckland, M. (1999) The landscape of information science: the American Society for Information Science at 62. Journal of the American Society for Information Science, Vol. 50, No. 11, pp. 970-974.

Activity

Be prepared to discuss both of the following:

1. Sign up to research one of the following in enough depth to elaborate the role played in the story of the development of the discipline of information science:

	Paul Otlet and Henri La Fontaine  (Steve & Lorri)
	International Institute of Bibliography  (Kari & Patricia)
	Documentation and techniques for organizing documents: UDC  (Joe & Sally)
	International Federation for Information and Documentation (FID) and the American Documentation Institute
	Vannevar Bush and MEMEX  (Lydia & Nathan)
	Renaming ADI, the American Society for Information Science  (Chic & Tammara)
	Technological advances and the “information problem”  (Meliha & Chia-En)
	The documentation and computation traditions of information science  (Suzi)
	Information science journals

2. Find out what you can about the recent renaming of the American Society for Information Science—now known as the American Society for Information Science and Technology.