2018 Fall Trends in Library and Information Research syllabus
2018 Fall PhD LISTrend syllabus
2018 Fall [ ISD0110 ] Trends in Library and Information Research(圖書資訊學研究趨勢)
Credits: 3
Prof. Mei-Mei Wu
Hour: Tuesday 9:10-12:00
Room: Cheng(正) Building 5th Floor LIS PhD Seminar Room
Moodle Webinar Notes & Reflection
I. Course Description
This course is designed with an intention to prepare Ph.D. students with a broad understanding and insight of the major problems, developments and trends in library and information studies. Further skills for critical thinking, research approaches of the classic as well as the current research issues will be covered in the seminar.
II. Objectives
The objectives of the course are to equip Ph.D. students with:
1. An understanding and familiarizing the evolution, structure, nature and environment of information science and librarianship.
2. Being able to critically analyze works and trends in information science and librarianship.
3. Facilitating and generalizing a ground for choosing and/or evaluating own future research.
III. Contents
The course will cover the issues:
1. A philosophical and historical overview of the field, and social, political and technological issues as well as critical events that affected their evolution.
2. Perspectives on the phenomena and processes of interest to library and information studies.
3. The problems and issues addressed over time and contemporarily in research, stressing the approaches, theoretical frameworks and models, as well as methodology used.
4. Authors and seminal works within library and information studies that shed significant impacts on research and professional practice.
IV. Weekly schedule
Week | Date | Topic | Readings | Notes |
1 | 9/11 | Overview of the course | Taylor, 1966; Levy&Ellis, 2006 | Making a learning plan |
2 | 9/18 | Overview of the field 1 | Shera, 1972, 1977; Buckland, 1998, 2012; Saracevic, 1992; Rayward, 1985, 1996; | |
3 | 9/25 | Overview of the field 2 | Koehler, 2000; Burke, 2007; Cronin, 2008; | |
4 | 10/2 | Basic concepts of information | Buckland, 1991; 2012 Hjørland & Albrechtsen, 1995; Madden, 2000; Hjørland, 2000, 2004; 2007a Kuhlthau, 2008; Bates, 2011; 2015 | |
5 | 10/9 | Theories in/for LIS research | Craig, 1999; Pettigrew &McKehnie, 2001; Andersen, 2008; Lund, 2009; | |
6 | 10/16 | Social informatics Educational informatics | Kling et al, 1998; Sawyer&Rosenbaum, 2000; Day, 2007; | |