INFO 5000 Information and Knowledge Professions

Reflections on Future Challenges 1 INFO 5000 Fall 2019

Assignment Reflection on the Challenges

You May Face as an Information Professional Fall 2019

Submit all assignments through the Canvas course site by 10pm (Central Time) on the due date.

In this assignment you will read two or three papers and watch two or three videos as context for the reflection paper you will write for this assignment. Through this course and others you may have taken or are taking, you have engaged in learning about the work, opportunities, and responsibilities of information and knowledge professionals. The work, opportunities, and responsibilities will also be accompanied by challenges, some of which may be significant. Although this is a minor assignment worth only 5% of your final grade, it is important for you to be thinking about the changes you will encounter in your professional development and the challenges you will face. The deliverable is in the form of a reflective paper. To do justice to this paper, and keeping in mind the worth of the grade, you will need to write a paper that is minimally 1,500 words, with maximum of 2,000 words.

Goals and Objectives The goal of this assignment is for you to consider what professional challenges may be in store for you in your career in the knowledge and information profession. In this course, I have highlighted issues, topics, concerns, and challenges. This assignment is your summative reflection on two or three challenges you are learning about. I am providing some resources for you to read and watch to provide context for your thinking, reflection, and writing. You will use these resources and reference the ones you cite in your paper using APA correctly! The following are specific objectives that you will address through this assignment:

• Exercise critical reading and thinking skills when using the resources. • Produce a reflective paper that presents the results of your reading, critical thinking, and

synthesis of ideas, concepts, and concerns that are associated with specific challenges you foresee.

• Demonstrate your ability to write at graduate-student level quality and use APA citation and reference style in your paper.

What You Need to Do 1. Read the following articles:

a. Buckland, M. K. (2017). Library technology in the next 20 years. Library Hi Tech, 35(1), 5- 10. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9gs9p655

b. Lyotard, J. F. (1979). The field: Knowledge in computerised societies. In The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge. Manchester University Press, 1984. https://www.marxists.org/reference/subject/philosophy/works/fr/lyotard.htm

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Reflections on Future Challenges 2 INFO 5000 Fall 2019

c. Lynch, C. A. (2018). Managing the cultural record in the information warfare era. EDUCAUSEreview 53(6). https://er.educause.edu/articles/2018/10/managing-the-cultural-record-in-the- information-warfare-era

2. Watch the following videos

a. Lankes, R. D. (2018). Information science versus library science in the in the era of technology. Keynote to the ICLIS International Conference 2018. Bandung, Indonesia. (via video conference). https://davidlankes.org/information-science-versus-library- science-in-the-in-the-era-of-technology/

b. Srinivasan, R. (2018). Illuminating data’s dark side. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H0aHZxPpBRI

c. Tufekci, Z. (2017). We’re building a dystopia just to make people click on ads. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iFTWM7HV2UI

3. Identify two or three challenges that these resources present that are ones you may face in your

professional and/or personal work.

4. Write a reflective paper in which you present your understanding of these challenges and discuss how you might respond to these. Also reflect on what these challenges might mean to you personally as you carry out your professional work.

The Paper This is a minor assignment; the deliverable is in the form of a paper, and it is written in a reflective manner. Yes, you can use first person singular voice in your writing. To do justice to this paper, you will need to write a paper that is minimally 1,500 words, and a maximum of 2,000 words.

• Make sure you follow the formatting requirements for papers, including the correct file naming convention. Points will be deducted for not following the requirements.

• Make sure you follow APA for formatting your citations, references, etc. Points will be deducted for incorrect in-text citations and the form of citations in your Reference section.