[Siguse-l] Stay tuned!

[Jenna Hartel]

Dear SIG-USErs,

Happy summer.

I have volunteered to contribute on a regular basis to this mailing list 
in an effort to stimulate discussion and enhance a sense of community. 
For those who don't know me <http://www.jennaharte.com/>, I am an 
Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Information, University of Toronto 
and a SIG-USE member.

My postings will hopefully be of general interest to all participants in 
SIG-USE. However, they will be written specifically for students of 
information behavior within information studies. It seems a most 
important project for a SIG to develop its next generation.Students, 
please spread the word of this learning opportunity to your peers; 
educators please rally your students into the list.

Given the above objective, and to organize the process, I will focus on 
/themes/ and write 4-6 postings per theme at a rate of about one message 
per week. Since mine is not the definitive perspective on information 
behavior, I will count upon the input of others in our community to 
round out the view.All are encouraged to join the conversation.

The first theme is "The Literature" and will help newcomers enter the 
wonderful, shaggy literature of information behavior. During this first 
theme there will be individual postings on the /Encyclopedia of Library 
and Information Sciences, Annual Review of Information Science and 
Technology/, an information behavior textbook, and an information 
behavior handbook.Later themes will be "History and Foundations," 
"Metatheory," "Major Concepts," and "Methods." The thematic approach may 
change if a better communication format emerges organically.

There is lively debate in our research area today about basic 
terminology: "information behavior" versus "information practice" and so 
on. This issue will be side-stepped for now; I will simply use 
"information behavior" as a banner for the research area well described 
on the SIG-USE website <http://siguse.wordpress.com/about/>.

Stay tuned!

Jenna Hartel, Assistant Professor
Faculty of Information, University of Toronto
www.jennahartel.com <http://www.jennahartel.com>
jenna.hartel at utoronto.ca


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