The Information and Publication Cycle

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The Information and Publication Cycle

• LIB 120
• Amanda Izenstark

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The Information Cycle

• Information doesnt just appear
• Someone has to create it.
• Think back to the second day of class when we
  discussed primary, secondary, and tertiary
  information

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The Information Cycle

• Primary information
• Secondary information

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Why does this matter?
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Information Timetable

• Day 1 September 11, 2001
• Immediate coverage via television, radio, and web
  pages.
  
• Mostly facts, the beginning of some analysis.

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Information Timetable

• Day 2 September 12, 2001
• Reports appear in newspapers.
• More facts and analysis.

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Information Timetable

• Day 5 September 16, 2001
• Reports appear in weekly magazines, such as Time,
  Newsweek, US News World Report, The New
  Yorker.
  
• Focus shifts from facts to mostly analysis.

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Information Timetable

• Two and more weeks later September 25, 2001
• Reports appear in monthly magazines, such as The
  American Spectator, The New Republic, Harpers
  Monthly, The Atlantic Monthly.
  
• Again, more analysis, and now some opinion.

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Information Timetable

• Six and more months later March 2002-?
• Books about the event start to appear.
• Articles in scholarly scientific journals
  appear.
  
• These would include factual information,
  analysis, research, and possibly opinion.

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Information Timetable

• One and more years laterSeptember 2003-?
• Subject-specific encyclopedia articles appear
  about a year later.
  
• General encyclopedia articles may appear two to
  ten years later.
  
• Articles about the event appear in textbooks over
  a year later.

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The Publication Cycle

• Scientific information flows in a slightly
  different way.
  
• See the attached handout for more information

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Further Readings

• UCLA Flow of Information http//www.library.ucla
  .edu/libraries/college/help/flow/
  
• University of WaterlooFlow of Scientific
  Informationhttp//www.lib.uwaterloo.ca/usered/gra
  d/researchskills/flow_of_info.html