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Describing Your Community

Greetings all – I think it would be useful for the next assignments for all of you to work on refining your description of your information community. You wrote a blog post a few weeks ago: Blog Post #2: Describe the Information Community you are choosing to explore for the course and the research paper. […]

Reminders About Writing & Assignments

Greetings all – I grabbed these Action Items from a post from a few weeks ago. All of these things can also apply to your blogging and future assignments: Some Action Items going forward: The rest of the assignments will require a more formal approach and require synthesis of the research-based, scholarly LIS literature you’ve […]

Welcome to Module 8: Research & Study Week

Greetings all! Please use this week to work on your research and future assignments. I would suggest focusing on the Information Sources Survey and the LRM as well as start thinking about your Blog Report #5. If you have questions, please reach out via site message, email or Zoom IM. Major Assignment Due Dates: Information […]

Wholehearted Research: Pragmatic, Inclusive, and Meaningful

Hello all – Getting over some jet lag here! I wanted to share that I did a talk at Edinburgh Napier University last week. It was for the Applied Informatics group in the School of Computing, Engineering, & the Built Environment at Edinburgh Napier University’s Merchiston campus. It was a super fun presentation and discussion. […]

Important: Blog Report #4

I just want to check in with everyone about Blog Report number four. This blog report should highlight a single article from your own individual research into your communities’ information behaviors and needs. Please do not select an article from our course readings — if anybody has started down this path that is fine. Just […]

Welcome to Module 7: Community-Generated Information Resources

Module 7 can be found here. This module explores community-created information communities and how libraries are working with these groups to enhance services. This module will frame your explorations of community-based resources for future assignments.