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Information and Power

Information and Power. Library 1551-Information Skills for the Electronic Age. What is power?. Power tends to attract more power…. What is information?.

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Information and Power

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  1. Information and Power Library 1551-Information Skills for the Electronic Age

  2. What is power?

  3. Power tends to attract more power…

  4. What is information? “…all the facts, conclusions, ideas, and creative works of the human intellect and imagination that have been communicated, formally or informally, in any form.” -Online Dictionary for Library and Information Science http://lu.com/odlis

  5. Conversation • Discussion lists • Blogs Informal Communication • Cutting edge • Current • Hard to find Semi-Formal Communication • Conference Papers • Working drafts of research papers

  6. Journal Articles • Academic Books • Dissertations Peer-Reviewed • Current • Authoritative • Well annotated Professional Literature • Trade Journals • Government Docs • Professional Reports • Can be hard to find

  7. Magazines • Newspapers • Free Websites • Popular Books Popular Literature • Easy to find • Lacking authority/detail Summary Literature (Reference) • Encyclopedias/Almanacs • Bibliographies • Textbooks • Made for a variety of users Adapted from University of Washington Libraries’ Marine Affairs info lit cycle http://www.lib.washington.edu/uwill/cycle/marine%20sciences/

  8. We’ve talked about power and information…Now what??? www.mediagogy.com.au

  9. Who pays for research? “Funding for the majority of formal research in the world today is provided by governments and corporations.” -Brian Martin. Information Liberation. London: Freedom Press, 1998. Page 125 i40.photobucket.com/albums /e226/thanate_tan

  10. Top 10 academic recipients of federal funding for science and engineering research and development in 2004 From: National Science Foundation, Division of Science Resources Statistics. 2007. Federal Science and Engineering Support to Universities, Colleges and Nonprofit Institutions: FY 2004. NSF 07-316. Richard J. Bennof, project officer, Arlington, VA. Table 18. http://www.nsf.gov/statistics * Funding is in thousands of dollars

  11. Corporations that fund research usually do so for a reason… and researchers tend to find what they are asked-and paid-to find.

  12. “We actively encourage companies to consider the University of California as their ‘research and technology’ development partner.” • From: http://ucdiscoverygrant.org/sponsors/

  13. Cigarette brands marketed by Phillip Morris USA

  14. Which of these products could you buy without giving money to Philip Morris?

  15. Altria Group, Incorporated Philip Morris USA • General Mills 1985-2007 • SA Miller 1970-Present • Kraft Foods 1988-2007 • Nabisco 2000-2007 • Philip Morris International March 2008 Information from Howard’s Company Profiles Database

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