Readings

Required Readings: To Be Read by the Entire Class

Copies will either be provided by the instructor or are available at the URLs given below.

Barlow, John Perry, "A Taxonomy of Information," Bulletin of the American Society for Information Science (June/July 1994): 13-17.
 Available from https://catalog2.nmsu.edu:3064/openurl?...  - Read before 8/21 

Herring, Mark Y., "10 Reasons Why the Internet Is No Substitute for a Library," American Libraries (2001). Available online at http://www.ala.org/Content/NavigationMenu/Products_and_Publications/Periodicals/... [Note: Article also available at: https://catalog2.nmsu.edu:2127/FSIP?...] - Read before 8/26

Chris Sherman, "Reference Sources on the Web," Online (2000).  
- Read before 9/18

Price, Gary,  "Myths for Today, Hopes for Tomorrow," Searcher 8, no. 1 (2000). Available at http://www.infotoday.com/searcher/jan00/price.htm - Read before 10/16

Raney, Rebecca Fairley, "Eclipsing the Sunshine of E-Goverment," Online Journalism Review (2002). Available at http://www.ojr.org/ojr/technology/1017870762.php - Read before 10/16

Dhillon, Gurpreet S. & Trevor T. Moores, "Internet Privacy: Interpreting Key Issues," in Ali Salehnia, ed., 
Ethical Issues of Information Systems (pp. 1-9). Hershey, PA: IRM Press, 2002. Copies provided by the instructor - Read before 10/28

Lessing, Lawrence,  "The Internet under Siege," Foreign Policy (2001). Available at http://www.foreignpolicy.com/issue_novdec_2001/lessig.html - Read before 11/11 

Zittrain, Jonathan & Benjamin Edelman, Documentation of Internet Filtering in Saudi Arabia (2002). Available from http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/filtering/saudiarabia/ - Read before 11/3

Dupont, Kyra  & Eric Pape, "E-mail Is a Real Revolution: For a Cambodian Opposition
Leader, the Net Is a Lifeline," Salon Magazine (1999). Available at http://archive.salon.com/21st/feature/1999/03/15feature.html - 
Read before 11/13

Readings for Presentation: Must Be Read by the Presenter; Optional for the Rest of the Class

Copies will be provided by the instructor. Please ask for your reading well in advance of the date you are to present it. 

  1. Crawford, Walt & Michael Gorman, "The Life of Print," Future Libraries: Dreams, Madness & Reality (pp. 13-35). Chicago: American Library Association, 1995.  Presentation on 8/26 by Byron Holloway

  2. Baker, Nicholson Chapters 1 & 3, Double Fold: Libraries and the Assault on Paper (pp. 3-11 and 22-36). New York: Random House, 2001.  Presentation on 8/28

  3. Crawford, Walt & Michael Gorman, "Deconstructing Dreams of an All-Electronic Future," Future Libraries: Dreams, Madness & Reality (pp. 86-103).  Chicago: American Library Association, 1995. Presentation on 8/28 by Cathie Williams

  4. Crawford, Walt & Michael Gorman,  "Economics of Collection & Access," Future Libraries: Dreams, Madness & Reality (pp. 131-154). Chicago: American Library Association, 1995. Presentation on 8/28

  5. Russell, Kelly, "Libraries and Digital Preservation: Who Is Providing Electronic Access for
    Tomorrow?" Libraries, the Internet, & Scholarship: Tools & Trends Converging (pp. 1-30). New York: Marcel Dekker, 2002.  Presentation on 9/2 by Suzy Chapman

  6. Smith, Margaret M. "The Growth of Information on the Title-Page," The Title-Page: Its Early Development 1460-1510 (pp. 91-108). London: The British Library, 2000.  Presentation on 10/2 by Jennifer Johns

  7. Sherman, Chris & Gary Price, "The Internet and the Visible Web," The Invisible Web: Uncovering Information Sources Search Engines Can't See (pp. 1-16). Medford, NJ: Information Today, 2001. Presentation on 10/16 by Gilbert Lujan

  8. Sherman, Chris & Gary Price, "Information Seeking on the Visible Web," The Invisible Web: Uncovering Information Sources Search Engines Can't See (pp. 17-36). Medford, NJ: Information Today, 2001.  Presentation on 10/16 by Lori Ortiz

  9. Nicholson, Scott,  Indexing and Abstracting on the World Wide Web: An Examination of Six Databases (1997). Available online at http://www.askscott.com/iapaper.html.  Presentation on 10/21 by Tyler Henley

  10. Sherman, Chris & Gary Price, "The Invisible Web," The Invisible Web: Uncovering Information Sources Search Engines Can't See (pp. 55-75). Medford, NJ: Information Today, 2001.  Presentation on 10/23 by Cindy Remy

  11. Sherman, Chris & Gary Price, "Using the Invisible Web," The Invisible Web: Uncovering Information Sources Search Engines Can't See (pp. 91-113). Medford, NJ: Information Today, 2001. Presentation on 10/23 by Gregg Bell

  12. Tomaiuolo, Nicholas G.,"When Image Is Everything," Searcher 10, no. 1 (January 2002). Available at http://www.infotoday.com/searcher/jan02/tomaiuolo.htm - Presentation on 10/23 by Laura Rivera

  13. Chapman, Scott & Gurpreet S. Dhillon, "Privacy and the Internet: The Case of DoubleClick, Inc.," in Gurpreet S. Dhillon, ed., Social Responsibility in the Information Age (pp. 75-88). Hershey, PA; Information Science Publishing, 2002.  Presentation on 10/28 by Glenn McCrary

  14. Grossman, Wendy M., "Guerrilla Cryptographers," Net.Wars (pp. 42-53). New York: New York University Press.  Presentation on 10/28 by Danny Brown

  15. Lewis, Michael, "Faking It: The Internet Revolution Has Nothing to Do with NASDAQ," New York Times on the Web (15 July 2001). Available at http://www.nytimes.com/2001/07/15/magazine/15INTERNET.html?ex=996139878&ei=1&en=ee8abc65a9365a78   Presentation on 10/30 by Chris Davis

  16. Piper, Paul S. "Better Read That Again: Web Hoaxes and Misinformation," Searcher 8, no. 8 (2000): 40-49.  Presentation on 10/30 by Michelle Arriaga

  17. Vaidhyanathan, Siva, "Hep Cats and Copy Cats: American Music Challenges the Copyright Tradition," Copyrights & Copywrongs: The Rise of Intellectual Property and How It Threatens Creativity (pp. 117-148). New York: New York University Press, 2001.   Presentation on 11/11 by Ralph Lerma

  18. Bollier, David, "Reclaiming the Commons," Boston Review (2002). Available from http://bostonreview.mit.edu/BR27.3/bollier.htm    Presentation on 11/11 by Gerardo Fernandez

  19. Wayner, Peter, Chapters 4 & 5 in Free for All: How Linux and the Free Software Movement Undercut the High-Tech Titans (pp. 31-52). New York: Harper Business, 2000.   Presentation on 11/11 by Geof Abruzzi

  20. Taubman, Geoffrey M., "Keeping Out the Internet? Non-Democratic Legitimacy and Access to the Web," First Monday 7, no. 9 (2002). Available at http://firstmonday.dk/issues/issue7_9/taubman/index.htm  Presentation on 11/13 by Lisa Holguin

  21. Grossman, Wendy M., "Unsafe Sex in the Red Page District," Net.Wars (pp. 114-126). New York: New York University Press.   Presentation on 11/13 Johnny Vallez

  22. Grossman, Wendy M. "The Making of an Underclass: AOL," Net.Wars (pp. 31-41). New York: New York University Press.   Presentation on 11/18 by Aubrey Dorisme

  23. Tang, Beth Archibald, "Universal Site Accessibility: Barrier Free for All," in Murugan Anandarajan & Claire A. Simmers, eds., Managing Web Usage in the Workplace (pp. 286-301). Hershey, PA: Idea Publishing Group, 2002.  Presentation on 11/18 by Shelly Garcia

  24. Norris, Pippa, "Wired World," The Digital Divide: Civic Engagement, Information Poverty & the Internet Worldwide (pp. 39-67 - with LOTS of charts & tables). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001.  Presentation on 11/18

  25. Burn, Janice M. & Karen D. Loch, "Societal Impact of the World Wide Web - Key Issues for the 21st Century," in Ali Salehnia, ed., Ethical Issues of Information Systems (pp. 88-106). Hershey, PA: IRM Press, 2002.   Presentation on 11/20 by Paul Mitchell

  26. Warren, Michael & William Hitchison, "Cyberspace Ethics and Information Warfare," in Ali Salehnia, ed., Ethical Issues of Information Systems (pp. 154-163). Hershey, PA: IRM Press, 2002.   Presentation on 11/20 by Mary Joiner

  27. Zanini, MIchele & Sean J. A. Edwards, "The Networking of Terror in the Information Age," in John Arquilla & David F. Ronfeldt, eds., Networks & Netwars: The Future of Terror, Crime, and Militancy (pp. 29-60, with LOTS of full-page maps). Santa Monica, CA : Rand, 2001.   Presentation on 11/20 Yvette Terrazas

  28. Orton, James Douglas, "Manufacturing Social Responsibility Benchmarks in the Competitive Intelligence Age," in Ali Salehnia, ed., Ethical Issues of Information Systems (pp. 215-231). Hershey, PA: IRM Press, 2002.   Presentation on 11/20

  29. Brown, John Seeley & Paul Duguid, "Agents & Angels," The Social Life of Information (pp. 35-62). Boston, MA: Harvard Business School Press, 2000.   Presentation on 12/2 by Andrew Michael

  30. Grossman, Wendy M. "The Wrong Side of Passwords," Net.Wars (pp. 127-139). New York: New York University Press.  Presentation on 12/2 by Julieta Espinosa

Reading list developed by Kate Manuel, Instruction Coordinator, New Mexico State University Library, 2002.

You are welcome to use and make a print copy of these materials for educational purposes, but please credit the source as: LSC 311: Information Literacy, New Mexico State University, and cite the individual author of the modules you use. Please do not copy the source code of any of these pages and load them locally. All commercial rights are reserved. Send comments or suggestions to: Susan E. Beck at susabeck@lib.nmsu.edu. 

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