All educators occasionally wrestle with the matter of travel or other interruptions during the academic semester that take them away from the classroom. This posting offers a turnkey way for information science teachers to productively fill the gap: Hold an Information Science Video Festival!
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The video Learn Information Behavior, 1980s-Style! opens to Lauper’s famous melody and goes on to feature four great information behavior luminaries from the 1980s and their contributions. Specifically, Brenda Dervin’s Sense-Making (1983), Carol Kuhlthau’s Information Search Process (1988), Marcia Bates’ Berrypicking (1989), and Elfreda Chatman’s multiple social theories (1996) are the stars.
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“What is Library and Information Science?” in a 5-minute video. LIS is cast as the mediating force between publications and people. Further, the video distinguishes the academic discipline (library and information science) from the related concepts of its institution (the library) and profession (librarianship). Along the way, several key concepts are defined, such as the reference interview, reader’s advisory, bibliographic control, and information retrieval. Three distinct types of libraries are named (public, academic, special).
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The new 12-episode video series at INFIDEOS, Visual Research Methods, is designed for anyone who may wish to incorporate images, such as photographs or drawings, into a research project.
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Season’s Greetings from INFIDEOS, a YouTube channel of educational videos about Information Science. Information Science Macarena is a short (2-minute), light-hearted, holiday-themed celebration of some of our field’s colorful characters and their ideas. It was created with students in mind, but is a holiday gift to all enthusiasts of Information Science.
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At my YouTube channel, INFIDEOS, I recently published a video series, Writing-Up Research as Thematic Narrative. It contains 14 short episodes on authoring qualitative or ethnographic research. The series addresses the complexity of social scientific narratives, which are multi-perspective and multivocal. While all the examples of writing in the collection are drawn from Information Science, these fundamental techniques easily transfer to other disciplines.
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Attention doctoral students of Information Science: There’s a new video series at INFIDEOS, and it is just for you.
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Reijo Savolainen’s “Everyday Life Information Seeking: Approaching Information Seeking in the Context of Way of Life” was published in the journal Library and Information Science Research in 1995. This landmark paper introduced a model of information behavior and opened-up a now-flourishing research frontier dedicated to non-work contexts.
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This video bridges certain divides in Information Science and demonstrates a less fragmented and more holistic potential of our field.
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Information Science Road Trip takes sightseers on a panoramic journey through 10 “big ideas” of Information Science.
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