Syllabus

Introduction

The subjects we will be discussing are complex and not likely fully to be available in any one article or text. The reading list reflects this fact and provides a number of alternative or possible perspectives for each of the topics we will be covering. In some cases (overview of assessment methods) it is possible to identify a single most important work which it is essential that everyone become familiar with, in most others you will want to dip into a variety of works that are listed, grazing, perhaps, rather than intensively digesting.

In addition and more passively, you will want to use RSS feeds to keep up with "the news" as it becomes available. A selection of serial publications, blogs, and news sources is supplied below.

There is no course-reader, nor are there required texts. All of the readings are available on-line.

Assigned and suggested readings are organized by seminar date and topic. Required readings are indicated with an asterisk '*'.

1/18/2006 - Course overview

Practical work of the course will require some working knowledge of assessment techniques/methods and how they are used in the design, assessment, and continued evaluation of academic information services.

For an overview of assessment methods see:

As Covey points out, different methods have very different strengths and weaknesses, and are accordingly fit for different purposes. Good assessment studies often involve the use of multiple methods. To get a feel, you'll want to familiarize yourself with how different techniques are used (well but also poorly) in different studies. Many of the readings for this course rely in some way or another on the use of different assessment techniques. You can quick-start you inquiries by sampling from some of the following:

• Johan Bollen, et.al., "Usage Analysis for the Identification of Research Trends in Digital Libraries", DLib Magazine 9:5(May, 2003), http://www.dlib.org/dlib/may03/bollen/05bollen.html
• Amy Friedlander, ed., Dimensions and Use of the Scholarly Information Environment: Introduction to a Data Set Assembled by the Digital Library Federation and Outsell, Inc. (CLIR, 2002)
  http://www.clir.org/pubs/abstract/pub110abst.html
• Diane Harley, et al., "The Use of Digital Resources in Humanities and Social Science Undergraduate Education. First Year Report" (October, 2004)
  http://digitalresourcestudy.berkeley.edu/pdf/digital_resources_y1_report.pdf
• Diane Harley, et al., "Understanding the use of Digital Resources in Humanities and Social Science Undergraduate Education" (2005)
  http://digitalresourcestudy.berkeley.edu/report/
  digitalresourcestudy_final_report_exec_summ.pdf
• E. Novotny, "I don't think I click: a protocol analysis study of use of a library online catalog in the Internet age." College & Research Libraries 65:6(November 2004), 525-537,
  http://www.ala.org/ala/acrl/acrlpubs/crljournal/crl2004/november/Novotny.pdf
• The 2003 OCLC Environmental Scan: Pattern Recognition (2004)
  http://www.oclc.org/reports/2003escan.htm
• Steve Jones and Camille Johnson-Yale, "Professors online: The Internet's impact on college faculty", First Monday,10:9(September, 2005)
  http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue10_9/jones/index.html
• OCLC White Paper on the Information Habits of College Students (OCLC, 2002)
  http://www.oclc.org/research/announcements/2002-06-24.htm
• C. Tenopir, Use and users of electronic library resources: an overview and analysis of recent research studies (CLIR, 2003)
  http://www.clir.org/pubs/reports/pub120/pub120.pdf
• Any of the numerous assessment and evaluation reports conducted by the California Digital Library in the course of its designing and continually evaluating new information services, available from http://www.cdlib.org/inside/assess/evaluation_activities/index.html

1/25/2006 - Historic roles

The literature on the changing roles of academic libraries is already long and continually growing.

* Graze through and get a feel for reactions to this topic in some of the following:

• Emerging Visions for Access in the Twenty-first Century Library (CLIR, 2003) http://www.clir.org/pubs/abstract/pub119abst.html
• Perceptions of Libraries and Information Resources (OCLC, 2005) http://www.oclc.org/reports/pdfs/Percept_intro.pdf
• Paul Gandell, "Libraries: Standing at the Wrong Platform, Waiting for the Wrong Train" EDUCAUSE Review (November/December, 2005) http://www.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/erm05610.pdf
• Leo Waaijers, "From Libraries to ‘Libratories'" First Monday 10:12(December, 2005), http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue10_12/index.html
• Jerry D. Campbell, "Changing a Cultural Icon: The Academic Library as a Virtual Destination" EDUCAUSE Review, Vol. 41, No. 1 (January/February 2006): 16-31. http://www.educause.edu/apps/er/erm06/erm0610.asp

2/1/2006 - Care and feeding of collections

"Interesting" trends in library collection management are so new they are difficult to spot in the literature. Since UC seems to be well out in front in this area, the required readings are highly localized. See: A less parochial more general picture can be obtained from:

• The Evidence in Hand: Report of the Task Force on the Artifact in Library Collections (2001) http://www.clir.org/pubs/abstract/pub103abst.html
• Bernard F. Reilly, Jr., et. al., Developing Print Repositories: Models for Shared Preservation and Access (2003) http://www.clir.org/pubs/abstract/pub117abst.html

2/8/2006 - Search and Public Service

Other relevant readings include:

• Ken Chad and Paul Miller, "Do libraries matter The Rise of Web 2.0. A White Paper" (Nov 2006) http://www.talis.com/downloads/white_papers/DoLibrariesMatter.pdf
• Daniel Greenstein, "Lessons in Deep Resource Sharing from the University of California Libraries" in Emerging Visions for Access in the Twenty-first Century Library (CLIR, 2003) http://www.clir.org/pubs/reports/pub119/greenstein.html
• Tony Hammond, et. al., "Social Bookmarking Tools (1)", DLib Mabazine, 11:4(April, 2005), http://www.dlib.org/dlib/april05/hammond/04hammond.html
• S. Powers, "Cheap Eats at the Semantic Web Café", Burningbird (January 27, 2005) from http://weblog.burningbird.net/archives/
  2005/01/27/cheap-eats-at-the-semantic-web-cafe/
• Relevant sections of Perceptions of Libraries and Information Resources (OCLC, 2005)http://www.oclc.org/reports/pdfs/Percept_intro.pdf
• Roy Tennant, "The right solution: federated search tools", Library Journal, 6/15/2003 from http://libraryjournal.reviewsnews.com/

2/15/06 - Project Discussion Session

2/22/06 - The economics and other dysfunctions of scholarly communication systems

The prolific literature that has grown up around this topic seems sometimes to generate more heat than light. Every point of view is represented there and it is best not to gravitate toward the one(s) with which you feel most naturally inclined.

In addition…

• Information about how the economics of scholarly publishing impact directly at UC, and about UC's various responses are available from the website maintained by The Office of Scholarly Communication http://osc.universityofcalifornia.edu/
• A good list of credible additional information resources is available from the OSC from http://osc.universityofcalifornia.edu/resources/
• Cf Ted Bergstrom's journal pricing page from http://www.econ.ucsb.edu/~tedb/

3/1/2006 - Scholarly Communication in Transition

Selected readings from "Web focus"

In addition, you might want to look at:

• Mary Case, "Principles for Emerging Systems of Scholarly Publishing" (2000) http://www.arl.org/newsltr/210/principles.html
• Joseph J.Esposito, "The devil you don't know: The unexpected future of Open Access publishing", First Monday, 9:8(August 2004) from http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue9_8/esposito/index.html
• Clifford Lynch, "Scholarly Communication in a Digital World", Texas A&M. Humanities Information Lecture Series (2004) streaming video from http://handle.tamu.edu/1969.1/12
• David E. Shulenburger, "Principles for a New System of Publishing for Science" (2001) from http://www.provost.ku.edu/papers/unesco3.shtml

3/8/2006 - Primary data as a secondary resource: data archives and their use

More tactical approaches are available from:

• Beagrie's and Greenstein's, A strategic policy framework for creating and preserving digital collections. Version 5.0 (July 2001) makes the case for preserving scholarly digital collections and provides practical and policy guidance to those in a position to do so.
• Brian Lavoie and Lorcan Dempsey, "Thirteen Ways of Looking at…. Digital Preservation", DLib Magazine, 10:7/8(2004) http://www.dlib.org/dlib/july04/lavoie/07lavoie.html
• And from the guides to developing persistent digital collections as written for different communities of scholarly data producers
• Various publications of the AHDS http://www.ahds.ac.uk/about/publications/index.htm
• NISO Framework Advisory Group. A Framework of Guidance for Building Good Digital Collections. 2nd edition. (2004) from http://www.niso.org/framework/framework2.html

• NINCH Guide to Good Practice in the Digital Representation and Management of Cultural Heritage Materials (2002) from http://www.nyu.edu/its/humanities/ninchguide/

• Various publications of the Technical Advisory Service for Images (UK) on the management and sustainability of digitization projects (from http://www.tasi.ac.uk/advice/managing/managing.html)

3/15/2006 - Cyberinfrastructure / e-Science

The required NSF ("Atkins") report on cyberinfrastructure has helped to set the tone for debate nationally about the nature and level of investment in basic science (that is, in the infrastructure to support it). Follow-on reports (listed below) extend the discussion to the social sciences, and to the arts and humanities respectively and are worth a look.

Other "cyberinfrastructure" reports:

• American Council of Learned Societies, "The Draft Report of the American Council of Learned Societies' Commission on Cyberinfrastructure for Humanities and Social Sciences" (2005) http://www.acls.org/cyberinfrastructure/acls-ci-public.pdf
• Francine Berman and Henry Brady, Final Report: NSF SBE-CISE Workshop on Cyberinfrastructure and the Social Sciences (2005) http://ucdata.berkeley.edu:7101/new_web/pubs/CyberInfrastructure_FINAL.pdf

Other relevant reading on this topic:

• Science and Engineering Infrastructure For the 21st Century. The Role of the National Science Foundation (2002) http://www.nsf.gov/nsb/documents/2002/nsb02190/nsb02190.htm
• Reinvigorating the Humanities. Enhancing Research and Education on Campus and Beyond (AAU, 2004) http://www.aau.edu/issues/HumRpt.pdf

3/22/2006 - Different modalities

An excellent list of useful reports and etc on aspects of this subject is maintained by Educause at "Instructional Technologies". See the Archived Resources in particular from http://www.educause.edu/InstructionalTechnologies/645?Parent_ID=383

3/29/2006 - S P R I N G - B R E A K

4/5/2006 - Computer-assisted instruction at UC (guest lecturer)

Readings TBD

4/12/2006 - The qualities of open

4/19/2006 - Project Discussion Session 2

4/26/2006 - Digital stewardship at UC. Guest lecture. Report fromn the coal face

Lecturer TBD

5/3/2006 - Strategic Planning for the the Academic Information Environment

• Annual Educause Survey (there are five of these 2000-2004; three can still be found easily on the Net !) published annually in Educause Quarterly. They provide a good description of the hot issues on campuses as they plan their IT investments.
  • 6^th (http://www.educause.edu/apps/er/erm05/erm0530.asp)
  • 5^th (http://www.educause.edu/apps/eq/eqm04/eqm0422.asp)
  • 4^th (http://www.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/EQM0322.pdf)
  • 3^rd (http://www.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/EQM0322.pdf)
• Phil Goldstein et. al., "Understanding the Value of IT", Educause Quarterly, 26:3(2003) from http://www.educause.edu/apps/eq/eqm03/eqm033.asp

Sources of information worth checking regularly

Serials that may be worth watching:

• DLib Magazine
• Educause Quarterly
• Educause Review
• First Monday
• Library Journal

News sources that may be worth watching:

• Business Week Online (technology section) http://www.businessweek.com/technology/
• CNET http://www.news.com
• SearchEngineWatch http://blog.searchenginewatch.com/blog/

Blogs that may be worth watching

• Peter Brantley's blog http://ono.cdlib.org/shimenawa/
• Lorcan Dempsey's Weblog http://orweblog.oclc.org/
• O'Reilly Radar http://radar.oreilly.com/
• Peter Suber, Open Access News http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/fosblog.html