Oct 6

Introduction to the course

• What is this class about?  (see main homepage, previous class versions)
• Discussion of Working Groups (see list of potential Working Groups)
• Reading Assignments for next week (see next week's listing)
• Recent News Articles
• NY Times CyberTimes
• NY Times CyberLaw
• Reading Assignments for next week (see next week's listing)

Oct 13

Background, History, Review of Terminology
Deconstruction of Social Phenomena

The Internet and changing social structures

• Before class read:
• Besser, Howard. (1998). The Shape of the 21st Century Library, in Milton Wolf et. al. (eds.), Information Imagineering: Meeting at the Interface, Chicago: American Library Association, pages 133-146
• Besser, Howard. (1995). The Information SuperHighway: Social and Cultural Impact Chapter from Resisting the Virtual Life: The Culture and Politics of Information, edited by Jim Brook and Iain Boal, City Lights Books, 1995
• Besser, Howard. (1994). Movies-on-demand May Significantly Change the Internet appeared in the October 1994 ASIS Bulletin theme issue on Entertainment Technology and Information Services
• Preliminary formation of Working Groups
• Recent News Articles
• Reading Assignments for next week (see next week's listing)

Oct 20

Continued discussion on the Internet and changing social structures

Discussion on Distance Learning

• Finalizing formation of Working Groups
• Recent News Articles
• Reading and Working Group Assignments for next week (see next week's listing)
• A Clash of Cultures on the Internet, Howard Besser, San Francisco Chronicle, Aug 25, 1994

Oct 27

Discussion of Working Groups, Final Projects

Issues of electronic distribution of visual media

 
• Recent News Articles
 
• Assignment due:
• A group webpage containing at least a one-paragraph statement of your Working Group focus and goals, plus a suggested list of readings.  When you're satisfied with this webpage, send the URL to Howard.
• Assignment due:
• read the Executive Summary (front matter) and conclusion  (Part V) from  The Social and Economic Implications of the Production, Distribution, and Useage of Image Data (final report to the Mellon Foundation)
• and read at least one of the following:
•  MESL Implementation at the Universities by Howard Besser
•  The Museum Educational Site Licensing Project: Technical Issues in the Distribution of Museum Images and Textual Data to Universities by Howard Besser and Christie Stephenson
•  Comparing Five Implementations of the Museum Educational Site Licensing Project: 'If the museum data's the same, why's it look so different?'  by Howard Besser
• The Transformation of the Museum and the Way it's Perceived by Howard Besser

Nov 3

Reports from Working Groups
 
• Recent News Articles

• Assignment due:
• Your focus group should have watched the 1st science fiction film
• Each focus group should be prepared to give a 10-minute presentation on what they've been doing
• Send a one-paragraph description of your final project to Howard (howard@sims.berkeley.edu)

Nov 10

Discussion of Final Projects
Science Fiction Discussion
Issues of electronic distribution of visual media
 
 
• Recent News Articles

 
 
• Assignment due: Your focus group should have watched the 2nd science fiction film

Nov 17

Distance Learning, Special Topics, Catch-up day

• Recent News Articles

• Before class read the following articles  on Distance Learning
• Issues and Challenges for the Distance-Independent Environment, Howard Besser, JASIS, 11/96
• The Impact of Distance-Independent Education, Howard Besser & Maria Bonn, JASIS, 11/96

Transforming Libraries, Issue #6: Distance Learning, Association of Research Libraries, September, 1998
• review Howard's Distance Education Links

Nov 24

Holiday -- No class

Dec 1

Digital Longevity

Discussion about making your final projects available online
Discussion about changing the weighing of course requirements
Discussion of Focus Group websites
• Recent News Articles

 
• Read Time and Bits: Managing Digital Continuity by Peter Lyman and Howard Besser
• Final Papers/Projects due Dec 8 (no late papers!)

Dec 8

Final Presentations in Class (10 student projects, 3 Focus Groups, approx 10 min each)

• Written versions of all final Papers/Projects due (html preferred, linked off Focus Grp site)

Dec 15

Final Presentations in Class (11 student projects, 2 Focus Groups)

• (All students must attend this final class, even if they have presented the previous week!)

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