Information Age Inquiry is a site found through metasearch.com which brought me to Yahoo! and the site address of http://virtualinquiry.com/
The subject of information processing from the student’s point of view and the teacher’s point of view is found here. A click on Information Inquiry, in blue print, or on the picture labeled Inquiry, reveals a list of topics and approaches to information inquiry. In the list is Carol Kulthau and Information Search Process (ISP). Daniel Callison and Annette Lamb created this site operated by the Indiana University School of Library and Information Science in Indianapolis, Indiana.
I chose this site because Kulhthau’s approach to the information search process can be compared to others, like the Big 6 by Michael B. Eisenberg and Robert E. Berkowitz and REACT by Barbara Stripling and Judy Pitts. Additionally, on Kuhlthau’s Information Search Process (ISP) page, is a variety of information about ISP. For example, a discussion of Kuhlthau’s studies is presented; a video, viewable via Real Media, features Carol Kuhlthau discussing her “Four Basic Steps;” and seven links to articles written by Carol Kuhlthau are featured along with citations of her other writings. A link entitled “Information Search Process” moves you to Kuhlthau’s site at Rutgers University. I had considered just featuring the Rutgers site on my blog, but virtualinquiry.com features links not given by Kuhlthau on her site and allows for comparison of other experts examining the research process.
Monday, April 6, 2009
Thursday, March 26, 2009
Chart Competency
Information Literacy, as defined by the chart to the left, includes the elements of Media Literacy, Network Literacy, Computer Literacy, Traditional Alphabetic Literacy, Library Instruction, Cultural Literacy, and Visual Literacy. I confess that Network Literacy had not occurred to me since I am somewhat computer-phobic; however, as I work with our computer expert on campus, I learn a little more each day, so perhaps my computer literacy is improving. This is what Carol Kuhlthau is talking about in Guided Inquiry, Learning in the 21st Century. Teachers are guides for students as they learn to think critically and read with the best comprehension possible. Library instruction moves beyond Dewey Decimal System skill sheets to how students learn to gather, synthesize and draw conclusions from information they research. As students use resources from around the world and about people and places around the world, they develop a cultural literacy about the world in which they will work in the 21st century. For Carol Kuhlthau the information research process and information literacy go hand-in-hand.
The chart was found in Yahoo! image search. Copyright by Otis College of Art + Design, Los Angeles http://www.otis.edu/life_otis/library/information_literacy/information_competency.html
The chart was found in Yahoo! image search. Copyright by Otis College of Art + Design, Los Angeles http://www.otis.edu/life_otis/library/information_literacy/information_competency.html
Sunday, March 22, 2009
Competency: Image
The Information Search Process begins in the physical or virtual library where the students begins to make the decision as to what their research project will be about. This photo of books, therefore, is a logical image to include in this blog. The photo is found at http://www.freedigitalphotos.net/images/Uncategorised_g43-Books_p3989.html. I found it through Yahoo! by searching for uncopyrighted images.
Monday, March 2, 2009
Competency 6--Search Processes
Successive Fractions Search
Search Topic: Constructivism is a reform movement or as a traditional practice in today's educational literature?
Database: Academic Search Complete=S1 +S2=11 ; S1 + S3 =9
S1 (tradition* or norm* or conventional)
S2 (reform or change or alteration)
S3 (constructiv* AND Dewey or George Kelly or Jerome Bruner)
I ran S3 (constuctiv* AND Dewey or George Kelly or Jerome Bruner) first and received 195 hits. Adding S1 and S2 lead to zero result, but combining only S3 and S2 (reform or change or alteration) led to 11 hits and some of the results looked promising. Then I had the idea to carry out a combination of only S3 and S1 (tradition* or norm* or conventional) and these 9 hits looked even more interesting. I especially liked: Lehmann-Rommel, Roswitha. 2000. "The Renewal of Dewey – Trends in the Nineties." Studies in Philosophy & Education 19, no. 1/2: 187-218. Both of these successive fraction searches were useful to me.
Citation pearl/snowballing Search
Search Topic: Constructivism, a basic philosophy behind the work on Carol Kuhlthau.
Database: WorldCat=11 hits
Topic: Is the application of Carol Kuhlthau's Information research process difficult?
S1--application or use or operation
S2--research or information or research process
S3--Kuhlthau
I chose to carry out S4-S1+S2+S3 (9 hits) and chose the following article featuring Kuhlthau's ideas, among others. I would add Information retrieval to S2 if I chose to carry out the search again. However, I like the 9 sources presented, so another search here should not be necessary.
Title: Theories of information behavior /
Author(s): Fisher, Karen E.,; 1966- Erdelez, Sanda,; 1960- McKechnie, Lynne.
Publication:
Medford, N.J. : Published for the American Society for Information Science and Technology by Information Today,
Year: 2005
Description: xxii, 431 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language: English
Series: ASIST monograph series;
Standard No:
ISBN: 157387230X; 9781573872300; LCCN: 2005-10420
Access:
Materials specified: Table of contents http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0511/2005010420.html
SUBJECT(S)
Descriptor:
Information behavior. Information retrieval. Research. Information resources. Information science. Comportement de l'information. Sources d'information. Recherche de l'information. Sciences de l'information. Recherche.
Note(s):
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Class Descriptors:
LC: ZA3075; Dewey: 020/.72; 025.524
Responsibility:
edited by Karen E. Fisher, Sanda Erdelez, and Lynne (E.F.) McKechnie.
Vendor Info:
Baker & Taylor YBP Library Services Baker and Taylor (BKTY YANK BTCP) 49.50 Status: active
Material Type:
Internet resource (url)
Document Type: Book; Internet Resource
Date of Entry: 20050412
Update: 20090217
Accession No:
OCLC: 59818630
Specific Facet
Search Topic: Constructivism is a reform movement or as a traditional practice in today's educational literature?
Database: Library Lit=4 hits
(tradition* or norm* or conventional)
(reform or change or alteration)
(constructiv* AND Dewey or George Kelly or Jerome Bruner)
I am pleased with my number of hits after I searched (constructiv* AND Dewey or Goerge Kelly or Jerome Bruner). Based on the titles, three look useful, especially this article:
Garrett, LeAnn (1997). "Dewey, Dale, and Bruner: educational philosophy, experiential learning, and library school cataloging instruction". Journal of education for library and information science (0748-5786), 38, p. 129.
No further search in this database is necessary.
Block Search
Search Topic: Is the application of Kuhlthau's information research process difficult?
Database: ERIC
S1-application OR use OR operation-234,933
S2-research OR information OR research process=520,497
S3-Kuhlthau=38
S4-application OR use OR operation AND research OR information OR research process AND
Kuhlthau=10
I found this search method to be helpful and it narrowed my sources to a very helpful number.
Search Topic: Constructivism is a reform movement or as a traditional practice in today's educational literature?
Database: Academic Search Complete=S1 +S2=11 ; S1 + S3 =9
S1 (tradition* or norm* or conventional)
S2 (reform or change or alteration)
S3 (constructiv* AND Dewey or George Kelly or Jerome Bruner)
I ran S3 (constuctiv* AND Dewey or George Kelly or Jerome Bruner) first and received 195 hits. Adding S1 and S2 lead to zero result, but combining only S3 and S2 (reform or change or alteration) led to 11 hits and some of the results looked promising. Then I had the idea to carry out a combination of only S3 and S1 (tradition* or norm* or conventional) and these 9 hits looked even more interesting. I especially liked: Lehmann-Rommel, Roswitha. 2000. "The Renewal of Dewey – Trends in the Nineties." Studies in Philosophy & Education 19, no. 1/2: 187-218. Both of these successive fraction searches were useful to me.
Citation pearl/snowballing Search
Search Topic: Constructivism, a basic philosophy behind the work on Carol Kuhlthau.
Database: WorldCat=11 hits
Topic: Is the application of Carol Kuhlthau's Information research process difficult?
S1--application or use or operation
S2--research or information or research process
S3--Kuhlthau
I chose to carry out S4-S1+S2+S3 (9 hits) and chose the following article featuring Kuhlthau's ideas, among others. I would add Information retrieval to S2 if I chose to carry out the search again. However, I like the 9 sources presented, so another search here should not be necessary.
Title: Theories of information behavior /
Author(s): Fisher, Karen E.,; 1966- Erdelez, Sanda,; 1960- McKechnie, Lynne.
Publication:
Medford, N.J. : Published for the American Society for Information Science and Technology by Information Today,
Year: 2005
Description: xxii, 431 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language: English
Series: ASIST monograph series;
Standard No:
ISBN: 157387230X; 9781573872300; LCCN: 2005-10420
Access:
Materials specified: Table of contents http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0511/2005010420.html
SUBJECT(S)
Descriptor:
Information behavior. Information retrieval. Research. Information resources. Information science. Comportement de l'information. Sources d'information. Recherche de l'information. Sciences de l'information. Recherche.
Note(s):
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Class Descriptors:
LC: ZA3075; Dewey: 020/.72; 025.524
Responsibility:
edited by Karen E. Fisher, Sanda Erdelez, and Lynne (E.F.) McKechnie.
Vendor Info:
Baker & Taylor YBP Library Services Baker and Taylor (BKTY YANK BTCP) 49.50 Status: active
Material Type:
Internet resource (url)
Document Type: Book; Internet Resource
Date of Entry: 20050412
Update: 20090217
Accession No:
OCLC: 59818630
Specific Facet
Search Topic: Constructivism is a reform movement or as a traditional practice in today's educational literature?
Database: Library Lit=4 hits
(tradition* or norm* or conventional)
(reform or change or alteration)
(constructiv* AND Dewey or George Kelly or Jerome Bruner)
I am pleased with my number of hits after I searched (constructiv* AND Dewey or Goerge Kelly or Jerome Bruner). Based on the titles, three look useful, especially this article:
Garrett, LeAnn (1997). "Dewey, Dale, and Bruner: educational philosophy, experiential learning, and library school cataloging instruction". Journal of education for library and information science (0748-5786), 38, p. 129.
No further search in this database is necessary.
Block Search
Search Topic: Is the application of Kuhlthau's information research process difficult?
Database: ERIC
S1-application OR use OR operation-234,933
S2-research OR information OR research process=520,497
S3-Kuhlthau=38
S4-application OR use OR operation AND research OR information OR research process AND
Kuhlthau=10
I found this search method to be helpful and it narrowed my sources to a very helpful number.
Wednesday, February 18, 2009
Competency 5--tagging
MLA HANDBOOK FOR WRITERS OF RESEARCH PAPERS, 6th Edition by Joseph Gibaldi
No research process is complete without a manual on citation and research paper writing steps. One such manual is the MLA Handbook. This is not the only such a manual, but is a familiar one to many writers of English department research papers. As the tags: "reference" and "writing" indicate, this is a reference book used by those who are writing papers. Kuhlthau does not specify the use of such a manual, but those in the research paper writing process cannot succeed without such a tool.
http://www.librarything.com/catalog/CCasey&tag=information research
No research process is complete without a manual on citation and research paper writing steps. One such manual is the MLA Handbook. This is not the only such a manual, but is a familiar one to many writers of English department research papers. As the tags: "reference" and "writing" indicate, this is a reference book used by those who are writing papers. Kuhlthau does not specify the use of such a manual, but those in the research paper writing process cannot succeed without such a tool.
Tuesday, February 10, 2009
Competency 4--RSS
PaperBackSwap New Postings (2.0) @ http://222.paperbackswap.com/index.php. This wonderful site allow booklovers like me to swap books. There is no cost except that of mailing a book to someone if they would like one of my posted books. This is a great way to acquire books I need in my library at no cost. Any books added can increase the strength of the library collection and is, therefore, of value to the research process. I have already added Harold Bloom's literary criticisms of Lord of the Flies for free to my library.
Tuesday, February 3, 2009
Competency 3--Pod
Podscope search engine lead me to The Teachers' Podcast at www.teacherspodcast.org. Here Drs. Kathy King and Mark Gura share ways to add new technology into the classroom. Included in these discussions are concerns about intellectual rights in the sharing of information on the Internet. Information literacy is a topic of much discussion. For example, one podcast concerned the digitization of notes given in a classroom lecture and the ethical dilemma of the intellectual rights of the professor versus the students' sharing of notes. Another broadcast looked at the freeing of classroom time by video taping lectures available on line. This is occurring in some secondary classrooms today. Though not specifically discussing research methods and not limited to secondary school libraries, the site is certainly looking at the digitalization of information and its proper use, and that is of concern to anyone working in a research process.
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