Topics & Readings Many readings are available electronically. To read the documents listed in PDF format, you must have Acrobat Reader. Download Reader [free]. January 11: The phenomenon of information Readings Nunberg, Geoffrey. 1996. Farewell To the Information Age. In The Future of the Book. Edited by Geoffrey Nunberg. Berkeley: University of California Press. [PDF files: Part 1; Part 2.] January 18: The social life of documents Readings Agre, Phil. 1997. The End of Information and the Future of Libraries Agre, Phil. 1995. Institutional Circuitry: Thinking about the Forms and Uses of Information. Brown, John Seely, and Paul Duguid. The Social Life of Documents. Duguid, Paul. Material Matters. January 25: Language use & information Readings Frohmann, Bernd.  (1990).  Rules of Indexing:  A Critique of Mentalism in Information Retrieval Theory.  Journal of Documentation, 46: 81-101. (GRC RESERVE) Wittgenstein, Ludwig. 1953. Excerpt from Philosophical Investigations. February 1: Information, discourse, & power Readings   Foucault, Michele. 1979. The Means of Correct Training. In Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison. New York: Vintage Books. (GRC RESERVE) Frohmann, Bernd. 1994. Discourse Analysis As a Research Method in Library and Information Science. Library and Information Science Research 16: 119-138. Frohmann, Bernd. 2000a. Discourse and Documentation: Some Implications for Pedagogy & Research. February 8: Modifying statements Readings   Latour, Bruno.1987. Introduction: Opening Pandora's Black Box. Chapter 1: Literature. In Science in Action: How To Follow Scientists and Engineers through Society. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press. (GRC RESERVE)   February 15: Centres of calculation Readings Latour, Bruno.1987. Chapter 6: Centres of Calculation. In Science in Action: How To Follow Scientists and Engineers through Society. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press. (GRC RESERVE)   February 22: Boundary objects & trading zones Readings   Galison, Peter. Trading Zone: Coordinating Action and Belief. In The Science Studies Reader, edited by Mario Biagioli. New York & London: Routledge. (GRC RESERVE) Star, Susan Leigh, and James R. Griesemer. 1989. Institutional Ecology, "Translations", and Coherence: Amateurs and Professionals in Berkeley's Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, 1907-1939. Social Studies of Science 19: 387-420. (GRC RESERVE)   March 1: No Class (Conference Week) March 8: Ecologies of knowledge Readings    Star, Susan Leigh. 1995. The Politics of Formal Representations: Wizards, Gurus, and Organizational Complexity. In Ecologies of Knowledge: Work and Politics in Science and Technology, edited by Susan Leigh Star. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press. (GRC RESERVE)   March 15: Literary technologies & matters of fact Readings Shapin, Steven. 1984. Pump and Circumstance: Robert Boyle's Literary Technology. Social Studies of Science 14:481-520. (GRC RESERVE)      March 22: Classification Readings   Bowker, Geoffrey C. 1998. The Kindness of Strangers: Kinds and Politics in Classification Systems. Library Trends 47: 255-292. (GRC RESERVE)   March 29: No Class (Good Friday) April 5: Cyber-ethics Readings   Capurro, Rafael. 2000. Ethical Challenges of the Information Society in the 21st Century. Capurro, Rafael. 1999a. Ethical Aspects of Digital Libraries. Frohmann, Bernd. 2000b. Cyber-Ethics: Bodies or Bytes?     April 12: The Fantasia of the Library Readings   Foucault, Michel. 1977. Fantasia of the Library. In Language, Counter-Memory, Practice. Selected Essays and Interviews. Edited by Donald F. Bouchard. Translated by Donald F. Bouchard and Sherry Simon. Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press.  [PDF files: Part 1; Part 2.] Radford, Gary P. 1992. Positivism, Foucault, and the Fantasia of the Library: Conceptions of Knowledge and the Modern Library Experience. Library Quarterly 62: 408-424.  [PDF files: Part 1; Part 2.] Radford, Gary P. 1998. Flaubert, Foucault, and the Bibliotheque Fantastique: Toward a Postmodern Epistemology for Library Science. Library Trends 46: 616-634.  (GRC RESERVE)   April 19: The Library of Babel Readings   Borges, Jorge Luis. The Library of Babel. (There are several online versions of this text. Here are some: version 1, version 2, version 3).

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