Type of Credit: Elective
Credit(s)
Number of Students
Given the increasing diversity of information users in society, information professionals need to learn more about information needs of various users in order to provide appropriate services. This course will introduce students with information-seeking theories, methods, and research on users' behavior of libraries and information use. The main focus of this course is to explore information uses at a general level, addressing formal and informal information channels, barriers to information, issues of value, and impacts of technology. Examines information seeking practices of particular communities and within various environments, introducing recent approaches to user-centered system design and digital library development. Topics of the course include frameworks for understanding behavior, seeking and retrieval of information, conceptual models of seeking and search process, relationships between information seeking and information retrieval and organization, research approaches and methods, and a review of the basic process in the management of information services.
能力項目說明
The goals are to provide the students to:
| 教學週次Course Week | 彈性補充教學週次Flexible Supplemental Instruction Week | 彈性補充教學類別Flexible Supplemental Instruction Type |
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1.Course description, assignments, readings, evaluation, etc.
2.States of use and users research
3.Foundations of use and users studies
4.Theories, conceptual frameworks, models and phenomena
5.Methodologies and methods for information behavior research
6.Information behavior, and information seeking in Information Science
7.Modes of inquiry: how to study the uses and users of information systems
8.Studies of scientists, cyberinfrastructures and the production of scientific knowledge
9.Information behavior and practices in science
10.Contemporary studies
11.Use and users of cultural heritage and news information
12. Information access services
13.Information Retrieval, Personalized search
14.Link analysis for Web search
15.Semantic information retrieval
16.Final project presentation
1. Readings and notes (40%);
2. Final project (40%);
3. Discussion and class participation (20%).