590DRM

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[edit] History and Foundation of Library and Information Science

Last Taught

Spring 2004

Instructor(s)

Professor Caroline Haythornthwaite

Has Taken

Timnah Card

Minjie Chen

Nataliya Duzhyk

Ingbert Floyd

Christa Hardy

Sarah Park

Cindy Welch

Xin Xiang

Oksana Zavalina

Xiao Hu

Andre Brock

Cameron Jones

Marina Pluzhenskaia

Melissa Cragin - Audit

Elizabeth Edwards

[edit] Comments

On the whole, I thought this was a good class. Especially useful was the extensive time taken by Caroline Haythornthwaite and some of the other lecturers (Youth Services by Christine Jenkins, Betsy Hearne & Deborah Stevenson; Les Gasser's lecture) to talk about what research is, how to do research, how to structure a thesis proposal, etc. I think it would have been better to take this class once I was further along in my studies, and had a better idea of what my thesis was likely to be, since only then can I really identify methods which are appropriate. Therefore I would suggest moving the requirement of taking this class into the second or third year. Also, I originally thought that it would be better to be exposed to more methods, and thought that perhaps the best way to do this would be to meet twice per week, for an hour and a half each session. However, after hearing some of the lectures (Youth Services by Christine Jenkins, Betsy Hearne & Deborah Stevenson; Les Gasser's lecture) the full amount of time was used very well, and I think it would have been a shame to cut those lectures to one and a half hours. So perhaps the better solution would be to have the class be composed of both 3 hour lectures once per week, and 1.5 hour lectures twice per week, depending on the week, and how long a presentation any particular faculty member wanted to make.