Suggested Readings for New Majors

  • American Library Association. Presidential committee on information literacy. http://www.ala.org/acrl/nili/ilit1st.html

  • Bailey, K.D. (1994). Typologies and taxonomies in social science. In Typologies and Taxonomies: An introduction to classification techniques (pp. 1-16). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.

  • Bush, V. (1945, July). As we may think. Atlantic Monthly, 176, 101-108.

  • Chatman, E.A. (1992). The information world of retired women. Westport, CT: Greenwood.

  • Dumais, S.T. & Landauer, T.K. (1984). Describing categories of objects for menu retrieval systems. Behavior Research Methods, Instruments and Computers, 16(2), 242-248.

  • Gladwell, M. (2000). The tipping point: How little things make a big difference.  Boston: Little, Brown & Co.

  • Harris, R.M. & Dewdney, P. (1994). Barriers to information: How formal help systems fail battered women. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press.

  • National Research Council (U.S.). Committee on Intellectual Property Rights in the Emerging Information Infrastructure.. (2000). The digital dilemma: Intellectual property in the information age. Washington, D.C.: National Academy Press.

  • Norman, D.A. (1990). The design of everyday things. New York: Doubleday.

  • Norman, D.A. (1998). The invisible computer. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

  • Rosenfeld, L. & Morville, P. (1998). Information architecture for the World Wide Web. Cambridge, MA: O’Reilly.