Troy Swanson, Research, Ideas, Notes, & Publications

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Dissertation: The Administration of Community College Blogs: Considering Control and Adaptability in Loosely Coupled Systems

Information Literacy

• TextBook: Why White Rice? : Thinking Through Writing by Eric Devillez, Tom Dow, Mike Mcguire, and Troy Swanson
• Old Dissertation Notes (failed topic on Info Lit and Personal Epistemology)

• Dissertation Ideas (future of libraries, Info economy, trends in libraries, trends in research, all kinds of stuff)

• Information Literacy MindMap
• IL Assessment Measures
• Assessment Survey
• Personal Epistemology
• Predictive Judgments
• Critical Literacy
• Cognitive Authority
• Info Lit Models for Campus
• Game Theory (and search theory from economics) 
• Prediction Markets
• IL Class Projects
• IL Future
• IL Presentation for NFO
• Seeing Varitions of Information
• The Information Literacy Tipping Point
• IL and Web 2.0
• Info Literacy & Rhetoric & Conspiracy  
• History of Innovation and Disruption
• Puzzles versus Mysteries
• Pattern Recognition, Knowledge, Gut Reaction 
• Belief, Knowledge, Loose Systems, Adaptability
• The Black Swan 
• Underestimating Complexity: IL Creativity in Loose Systems
• ILA: Underestimating Complexity: Information Literacy & Creativity in Loose Systems 

Web Sites & Blogs

• Weinberger, Too Big To Know, Networked Decision Making
• Why We Are Not Google: Lessons from a Library Web site Usability Study
• Your “Library” Doesn’t Participate in Social Media, But Your People Do 
• Seduced by Google: A Tame the Web Post 
• Technology Adoption: Telephone & Twitter
• Web 2.0 is a Coordination Problem 
• 6 Levels of Engagement for Online Products
• NSLS Presentation, January 2008
• NSLS Presentation, Winter 2009
• Possible Presentation (innovation, control, 2.0 balance)
• Control of Technologies
• Site Redesign Resources
• Blogs & RSS
• podcasts
• MySpace and Libraries
• Gamers
• Faculty Sections of Library Web site
• Information Architecture
• The Ongoing Wikipedia Debate
• Other Web site stuff

Other Interests

• Young Whipper Snapper No More 
• Our Competitive Advantage
• Library Management and Entropy: TTW Post
• Leadership In Loose Systems
• ADDIE In the Library
• Cycles of Support
• They're the DJs, We're the Rappers
• Charter Movement in Higher Education
• Database Reviews for Library Journal
• Planning
• One Book, One College: Autobiography of Malcolm X
• Baseball Experiment in Randomness 
• Book sites