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I. IPL stuff Read
the IPL information for students.
Follow through their training materials (your IPL id’s will be
assigned by IPL World HQ when you complete training). II. Do some
reading and start looking at sources For
class on the 11th, read
these: • Chapter 6, “Handling Reference Questions”, from Wyer, Reference
Work, ALA 1930 • Taylor, Robert S. “Question-Negotiation
and Information Seeking in Libraries” (on e-reserves) College & Research Libraries 29,
178-194, 1968 • Dervin
& Dewdney, “Neutral
Questioning: A New Approach to the
Reference Interview” (on e-reserves) Reference
Quarterly, 25 (4), 506-513, 1986 • Curry, Evelyn, “The
Reference Interview Revisited:
Librarian-Patron Interaction in the Virtual Environment”, Studies in Media & Information Literacy
Education 5 (1), 1-16, February 2005 • Buckland, Michael, “Reference Library Service in the Digital Environment”,
Library & Information Science
Research 30 (2008), 81-85 As you read these,
be thinking about these questions: Ø
What is
the “reference interview”? Ø
Why is
it so hard? Ø
Why is
it so important? Ø
Why
isn’t it done more often? Ø
And…can
you find examples of similar phenomena in other virtual domains (other than
libraries) ?
What other organizations, institutions, professions, individuals, are
concerned with eliciting similar or related kinds of information from clients
as a necessary part of working with them?
What instances can you find that you think information people could
profitably learn from? In
preparation for class on the 13th, read the text chapter 4 and have a look at
the readings and resources about Books, preparing the
questions there for discussion. For
this set of resources (and for others which will follow), you should look
them over and then use them to answer the questions listed on the page. Also
for class on the 13th,
look through the Suzzallo Reference stacks in the
Z’s, see what’s there, and bring one to class (you’ll have to grab it right
before class in Allen Aud). Notice that not everything with a Z call
number truly fits in this category—why not? What else is in there? Why? For
class on the 18th, think
about the Web searching you do on an ongoing basis, and make lists of
circumstances and situations where you thinking searching the free Web (using
Google, Bing, etc) would be most advantageous, and
when it would be least productive or useful.
In addition, read through these: • How
today’s college students use Wikipedia for course–related research
by Alison J. Head and Michael B. Eisenberg, First Monday 15 (3), 1 March 2010 • Future
of the Internet IV, parts 1 and 2, Pew Internet and American Life Project • Reference
Work Eleanor B. Woodruff, Library
Journal 22 (conference issue) 65-67, 1897 • and
chapters 1 and 2 of the text Also, please read this draft chapter I wrote a while ago but still kind of
like. III. Answer a few questions We’ll discuss these
questions briefly in class on the 4th. |