LIS 660 Information Sources and Systems in Science

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1 Instructor: Sara Rutter Voice mail: Office: A151C Hamilton Library Office Hours: Mondays 4-5 pm and by appointment Course Description: Survey class of resources and issues in science librarianship covering basic and applied sciences. The course will provide an introduction to the sociology and history of scientific disciplines, the structure of scientific information, and explore how librarians provide bridges between those seeking scientific information and the research literature. Pre: LIS 601 or consent of instructor Core competencies addressed: Professional Ethics: codes and principles of ethical practice governing the field. Knowledge Organization: understand the organization of scientific information and knowledge. Knowledge Dissemination--Service: concepts, principles and techniques that facilitate information access for users, interaction with users to provide consultation or guidance in use of information resources, assessment of user needs, diversity in user needs in the sciences and mathematics. Knowledge Inquiry--Research: research methods and findings within the information fields; fundamentals of research, survey and data collection designs; familiarity with current literature in the field and related areas. Institution Management: principles of planning, management, and evaluation of information centers; awareness of types of library and information professions; institutional change; oral and written communication skills; concepts for developing partnerships and collaborations; diversity of stakeholders; outreach and advocacy to specific audiences. Social, Historical, and Cultural Context: concepts and knowledge regarding the sociohistorical development of libraries, print culture, and information science; preservation of cultural resources; international dimensions of librarianship, information technology and policy, and social and cultural issues. (See for detailed description) Program learning objectives addressed: 1

2 1. Demonstrate an understanding of the history, philosophy, principles, policies and ethics of science libraries and science librarianship 2. Demonstrate an understanding of the development, organization, and communication of scientific knowledge; 3. Apply basic competencies and knowledge that are essential for providing, managing, and designing information services and programs in a variety of information environments; 4. Demonstrate theoretical understanding of and basic competencies in evaluating, selecting and organizing information sources; 5. Demonstrate theoretical understanding of and basic competencies in storage, retrieval, dissemination, utilization and evaluation of information; 6. Demonstrate basic competencies required for instructional program development in particular information environments; 7. Demonstrate an understanding of research techniques and methods of applying new knowledge as it becomes available; 8. Demonstrate the professional attitudes and the interpersonal and interdisciplinary skills needed to communicate and collaborate with colleagues and information users; 9. Demonstrate basic competencies in the latest specialized information technologies; 10. Demonstrate an understanding of the above goals within the perspective of prevailing and emerging technologies. Professional expectations: LIS graduate students are responsible for observing the highest standards of intellectual and personal honesty in every aspect of their careers at the University of Hawaii. The University s Student Conduct Code represents a zero tolerance policy, the penalties for academic dishonesty are severe and ignorance is not an acceptable defense. Please see for links to UH policies. Course objectives: By the end of the course students will be able to: 1. Discern the similarities and differences between the science disciplines and those in arts, humanities, and social sciences. 2

3 2. Understand the principle means by which science information is created and disseminated; 3. Gain insight into the approaches to gathering scientific information taken by scholars, students, and the non-scientist; 4. Become familiar with the characteristics of the literature of the sciences; 5. Apply principles of search strategy in seeking answers to reference questions; 6. Understand the attitudes, knowledge, and skills that are important in achieving accurate reference service; 7. Gain experience in making informative presentations to colleagues on topics of interest to the profession. Course philosophy: The classroom will serve as a collaborative laboratory in which to explore science librarianship through readings, discussions, practice, and presentations. Active participation in the class and completion of assignments is essential. At the close of this course students will have a greater understanding of the culture of science, how science is communicated and the tools and resources librarians use to help connect information seekers to the literature and data they need to pursue their research. Research methods: The course will involve evaluation of research articles, information retrieval, and instructional design. Grading Scale out of 200 points: A+=100-98% A =97-94% A-=93-90% B+=89-87% B= 86-83% B-=82-80% C+=79-77% C= 76-73% C-=72-70% D+=69-67% D =66-63% D-=62-60% 3

4 Course Requirements and Assignments: Assignments are due at the start of class. (5% of the grade will be subtracted for every day late.) 1. Summary of weekly readings, discuss implications for science librarianship. 13 possible, 5 points each. Students will be asked to lead discussions. Note: Assigned readings are subject to change; students will be notified of changes in a timely manner. 65 points 2. Problem sets pertaining to science disciplines covered in class (general science, astronomy, physics, mathematics, chemistry, biological sciences, geological sciences, meteorology). 9 assignments, 5 points each. 45 points 3. Review of science book written for non-scientist. 750 words; authority of the author; other books in the field; how does this compare; bibliography of scholarly papers, scholarly books relevant to the book you ve chosen. 20 points 4. Compare popular report of scientific discovery with original scholarly publication. 500 words 15 points 5. Presentation of profile of science library, department, or service what subjects do they support, staffing, what services do they offer (reference, virtual referencewhat kind, webpage, teaching, etc.), place in organization, organization of staff. 20 points 6. Final project; presentation on a scientific or technology subject; teach the class about the discipline, professional societies associated with discipline, resources, sample searches using vocabulary of subject. Provide handout(s) or webpage to class to support your instruction. 25 points 7. Class participation in discussions. 10 points 4

5 Class schedule Note: schedule and readings are subject to change WHAT IS SCIENCE? 1) January 11 Introductions Overview of class Sociology of science January 18 HOLIDAY 2) January 25 Understanding Science (Robert K. Merton 1968); (Robert King Merton 1942, reprint 1973); (Derek J. Price 1956);(Derek J. de Solla Price 1965); (Paula E. Stephan 1996) 3) February 1 Understanding Science, continued (W.S. Brown, J.R. Pierce et al. 1967); (Derek J. Price 1956); (T. Swann Harding 1942); (Judith Wallen Hunt 1946); (Carl F. J. Overhage 1967); (John Martyn 1964); (William D. Garvey and Belver C. Griffith 1967) SCIENCE LIBRARIANSHIP TODAY 4) February 8 General Science (PEW Research Center for the People and the Press 2009); (Stefan Wuchty, Benjamin F. Jones et al. 2007); (Eugene Garfield 1979; Eugene Garfield 1979); (Francoise Boursin 1995); (Carol Tenopir, Donald W. King et al. 2003) February 15 HOLIDAY 5

6 5) February 22 Astronomy (Asif-ul Haque and Paul Ginsparg 2009); (Edwin A. Henneken, Michael J. Kurtz et al. 2008); (Leith B. Woodall 2004);(Michael J. Kurtz, Guenther Eichhorn et al. 2006); (Edward E. Prather, Alexander L. Rudolph et al. 2009) 6) March 1 Physics (Henry H. Barschall 1986; Henry H. Barschall 1988; H.H. and Arrington Barschall, J. R. 1988; Cecelia Brown 2001; N.J. Stabbert 2009); (N.J. Stabbert 2009) 7) March 8 Mathematics (Sara Rutter 2002); (N.D. Anderson, K. Dilcher et al. 1997); (Joan S. Birman 2000) 8) March 15 Chemistry (P. MurrayRust, H. S. Rzepa et al. 1997; T. Clark and H. Roth 1998; W. A. Warr 1998) March SPRING BREAK 9) March 29 Biological sciences, part 1 (organismal, ecological, applied) (Stephan Philippi and Jacob Kohler 2006) Presentations on science librarianship begin. 10) April 5 Biological sciences, part 2 (cellular, molecular) (Dennis A. Benson, Mark S. Boguski et al. 1999; David J. McEnty Jo and Lipman 2001); (Jane Kaye, Catherine Heeney et al. 2009); (Science editors 1991); (Doug Howe and Seung Yon Rhee 2008); {Keeling, 2009 #647} 6

7 11) April 12 Geology, geophysics, meteorology (Lura E. Joseph 2001; John N. Ochola and Billie R. Peterson-Lugo 2003; Steve Borrelli, Betty Galbraith et al. 2009) 12) April 19 Engineering (Daniel E. Atkins and et al. 2003; Virginia Kay Williams and Christine Lea Fletcher 2006; Megan S. Nelson 2007) FUTURE OF SCIENTIFIC COMMUNICATION AND SCIENCE LIBRARIANSHIP 13) April 26 E-science, data intensive research, collaborative science, part 1 (Tony Hey and Jessie Hey 2006; (Mark S. Granovetter 1973); (Felice Frankel and Rosalind Reid 2008); (Ben Shneiderman 2008; 2009; Bryn Nelson 2009);(Engineering Committee on Science, and Public Policy (COSEPUP) 2009); (Vannevar Bush 1945) Presentations on science resources instruction begin. 14) May 3 15) May 10 E-science, data intensive research, collaborative science, part 2 (ARL Workshop on New Collaborative Relationships 2006; Diana Rhoten 2007; 2008; Felice Frankel and Rosalind Reid 2008); (Joint Task Force on Library Support for E-Science 2007) Final class meeting 7

8 Readings for LIS 660 (2008). How to Channel the Data Deluge in Academic Research. Chronicle of Higher Education. 54. (2009). "Data's shameful neglect." Nature 461(7261): Anderson, N. D., K. Dilcher, et al. (1997). "Mathematics Research Libraries at the End of the Twentieth Century." Notices of the American Mathematical Society 1997(11). Atkins, D. E. and e. al. (2003). Revolutionizing Science and Engineering Through Cyberinfrastructure: Report of the National Science Foundation Bulue Ribbon Advisory Panel on Cyberinfrastructure, National Science Foundation: 84. Barschall, H. H. (1986). "The cost of physics journals." Physics Today December 1986: Barschall, H. H. (1988). "The cost-effectiveness of physics journals." Physics Today July 1988: Barschall, H. H. a. A., J. R. (1988). "cost of Physics Journals: A survey." Bulletin of the American Physical Society 33(7): Benson, D. A., M. S. Boguski, et al. (1999). "GenBank." Nucleic Acids Research 27(1): Birman, J. S. (2000). "Scientific Publishing: A mathematician's viewpoint." Notices of the American Mathematical Society 47(7). Borrelli, S., B. Galbraith, et al. (2009). "The Impact of Electronic Journals on Use of Print in Geology." College & Research Libraries 70(1): Boursin, F. (1995). "Stemming the flood of paper." Chemistry & Industry (London) December 4, 1995: 992. Brown, C. (2001). "The Coming of age of e-prints in the literature of physics." Issues in Science and Technology librarianship Summer

9 Brown, W. S., J. R. Pierce, et al. (1967). "The Future of Scientific Journals." Science 158(3805): Bush, V. (1945). "As We May Think." Atlantic Monthly July 1945: (from reprint in Interactions). Clark, T. and H. Roth (1998). "The Journal of Molecular Modeling: Impact, expectations and experience." Chimia 52(11): Committee on Science, E., and Public Policy (COSEPUP) (2009). Ensuring the Integrity, Accessibility, and Stewardship of Research Data in the Digital Age E-Science, J. T. F. o. L. S. f. (2007). Agenda for Developing E-Science in Research Libraries. editors, S. (1991). "Genome databases." Science 254(5029): Frankel, F. and R. Reid (2008). "Big Data: Distilling meaning from data." Nature 455(2008 September 4): Garfield, E. (1979). Citation Analysis of Scientific Journals. Citation Indexing--Its Theory and Application in Science, Technology, and Humanities. Philadelphia, ISI Press (reprinted from John Wiley & Sons, 1979): Garfield, E. (1979). Mapping the Structure of Science. Citation Indexing--Its Theory and Application in Science, Technology, and Humanities. Philadelphia, ISI Press (reprinted from John Wiley & Sons, 1979): Garvey, W. D. and B. C. Griffith (1967). "Scientific communication as a social system." Science 157(3792): Granovetter, M. S. (1973). "The Strength of Weak Ties." The American Journal of Sociology 78(6): Haque, A.-u. and P. Ginsparg (2009). "Positional effects on citation and readership in arxiv." Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology 60(11): Harding, T. S. (1942). "The Sad Estate of Scientific Publication." American Journal of Sociology 47(4):

10 Henneken, E. A., M. J. Kurtz, et al. (2008). "Use of Astronomical Literature - A Report on Usage Patterns." arxiv preprint arxiv: v2 Hey, T. and J. Hey (2006). "e-science and its implications for the library community." Library Hi-Tech 24(4): Howe, D. and S. Y. Rhee (2008). "Future of biocuration." Nature 455(2008 September 4): Hunt, J. W. (1946). "Science Librarianship." Science 104(2695): Joseph, L. E. (2001). "Geology Librarianship." Science & Technology Libraries 21(1): Kaye, J., C. Heeney, et al. (2009). " Data sharing in genomics re-shaping scientific practice." Nature Reviews Genetics 10: Kurtz, M. J., G. Eichhorn, et al. (2006). "The Future of Technical Libraries." arxiv:astro-ph/ v1. Martyn, J. (1964). "Unintentional duplication of research." New Scientist 377(February 6, 1964): 338. McEnty Jo and Lipman, D. J. (2001). "GenBank--a model community resource?" Nature debates. Merton, R. K. (1942, reprint 1973). The Normative Structure of Science The sociology of science : theoretical and empirical investigations. N. Storer. Chicago, University of Chicago Press: xxxi, 605 p. Merton, R. K. (1968). "The Matthew Effect in Science." Science 159(3810): MurrayRust, P., H. S. Rzepa, et al. (1997). "The World-Wide Web as a chemical information tool." Chemical Society Reviews 26(1): Nelson, B. (2009). "Data Sharing: Empty Archives." Nature 461(9 September 2009): Nelson, M. S. (2007). "Initiating engineering outreach reference services: background and practice." Reference Services Review 35(2):

11 Ochola, J. N. and B. R. Peterson-Lugo (2003). "Collaboration between the library and classroom faculty in the assessment of student research needs: a case-study with geology undergraduates." Collection Management 28(4): Overhage, C. F. J. (1967). "Science libraries: prospects and problems." Science 155(3764): Philippi, S. and J. Kohler (2006). "Addressing the problems with life-science databases for traditional uses and systems biology." Nature Genetics 7(June 2006): Prather, E. E., A. L. Rudolph, et al. (2009). "Teaching and learning astronomy in the 21st century." Physics Today 62(10): Press, P. R. C. f. t. P. a. t. (2009). Scientific achievements less prominent than a decade ago: Public praises science; scientists fault public, media: 100. Price, D. J. (1956). "The Exponential Curve of Science." Discovery, new series 17: Price, D. J. d. S. (1965). "Networks of Scientific Papers." Science 149(3683): Relationships, A. W. o. N. C. (2006). To stand the test of time: Long-term stewardship of digital data sets in science and engineering. Arlington, VA: 159. Rhoten, D. (2007). "The Dawn of Networked Science." Chronicle of Higher Education 54(2): 12. Rutter, S. (2002). "Mathematicians and the Mathematics Library: A Librarian's Perspective." Notices of the American Mathematical Society 49(9): Shneiderman, B. (2008). "Science 2.0." Science 319(2008 March 7): Stabbert, N. J. (2009). "The Lost Prestige of Nuclear Physics." The New Atlantis Summer Stephan, P. E. (1996). "The Economics of Science." Journal of Economic Literature 34(3): Tenopir, C., D. W. King, et al. (2003). "Patterns of journal use by scientists through three evolutionary phases." D-Lib Magazine 9(5). 11

12 Warr, W. A. (1998). "Communication and communities of chemists." Journal of Chemical Information and Computer Sciences 38(6): Williams, V. K. and C. L. Fletcher (2006). "Materials used by master's students in engineering and implications for collection development: a citation analysis." Issues in Science and Technology Librarianship Winter Woodall, L. B. (2004). "Databases Reviews and Reports: The NASA Astrophysics Data System." Issues in Science and Technology Librarianship 2004(Winter). Wuchty, S., B. F. Jones, et al. (2007). "The Increasing Dominance of Teams in Production of Knowledge." Science 316:

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