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INST 301
Introduction to Information Science
Spring 2016
Required Readings

• Alvin Toffler, The Third Wave, Morrow, 1980. Read only Chapter 1 (Super-Struggle). Available on ELMS as TofflerChapter1.pdf.

• M. Mitchell Waldrop, J.C.R. Licklider and the Revolution that Made Computing Personal, Viking, 2001. Read only Chapter 7 (The Intergalactic Network) through the top of page 287 (stop before "ARPA's Woodstock"). Available on ELMS as WaldropChapter7e.pdf.

• Walter Isaacson, The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution, Simon and Schuester, 2014. Read only Chapter 8 (The Web) through the middle of page 422 (stop before "Justin Hall and How Web Logs became Blogs"). Available on ELMS as IsaacsonChapter11c.pdf.

• John Battelle, The Search, Penguin Books, 2005. Read only Chapter 2 (Who, What, Where, When, Why, and How (Much)). Available on ELMS as BatelleChapter2.pdf.

• User Needs and Strategies for Addressing those Needs, University of Wisconsin Trace Center, 1998.

• Gary Marchionini, Information Seeking Perspective and Framework, Chapter 3 of Gary Marchionini, Information Seeking in Electronic Environments, Cambridge University Press, 1997. Figures are available on ELMS as MarchioniniFigures.pdf.

• Chapter 1: Introduction from David Easley and Jon Kleinberg, Networks, Crowds and Markets: Reasoning about a Highly Connected World, Cambridge University Press, 2010.

• Information Systems, Organization and Strategy from Ken Laudon and Jane Laudon, Management Information Systems: International Edition, 11/E, Pearson Higher Education, 2010

• SAS Institute, Decision-Driven Data Management, White Paper, October, 2012.

• Practice Exam

• Rose Vines, Databases from Scratch: Introduction, 2011.
• Rose Vines, Databases from Scratch: Simple Database Design, 2011.
• Rose Vines, Databases from Scratch: The Design Process, 2011.

• Access to a computer is required for this session. Before this session please download Open Office on your laptop. Please follow the installation guidelines as per your system needs (Windows machine, Mac OSX ... ).
• Create a Database named "MyFirstDB" using the Wizard. Refer to Page 8 in this article.

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• Angela Byron, Addison Berry and Bruno De Bondt, Using Drupal (2nd Edition), O'Reilly Media, 2012. Read only Chapter 1.

• Tim Berners-Lee, Linked Data, World Wide Web Consortium, July, 2006.

• Graham Williams, Data Mining with Rattle and R: The Art of Excavating Data for Knowledge Discovery, Springer, 2011. Read only Chapter 1.

• Thomas H. Davenport and Laurence Prusak, Working Knowledge: How Organizations Manage What they Know, Harvard Business School Press, 2001. Read only Chapter 1 (available on ELMS)

• Practice Exam

• Gary Pollice, Collaboration Support: The Next Evolutionary Step, 2008.

• Deanna Marcum, Archives, Libraries, Museums: Coming Back Together?, Information & Culture: A Journal of History, 49(1), 74-89. 2014. (Also available on ELMS)

• Stacey A. Aldrich and Jarrid P. Keller, The Librarian in 2020 | Reinventing Libraries, Libray Journal, 2013
• Corydon Ireland, The Future of Saving the Past: Archival Technologies in the Digital Era, Radcliffe Magazine, 2014.

• The White House, Digital Government: Building a 21st Century Platform ro Better Serve the American People, undated

• Ross Anderson, Why Information Security is Hard -- An Economic Perspective, 17th Annual Computer Security Applications Conference, 2001.

• David Banisar and Simon Davies, Privacy and Human Rights: An INternational Survey of Privacy Laws and Practice

• Pariser, Eli. The filter bubble: What the Internet is hiding from you. Penguin UK, 2011. Chapter 5 Only. Available on ELMS as FilterBubble.pdf

• Sarah Baase, A Gift of Fire: Social, Legal, and Ethical Issues for Computing Technology, 4th edition, Pearson, 2013. Read Chapter 1 (available on ELMS)

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• Practice Exam (to be posted by May 4)