Course Reflection LIS 550: Information in the Social Context

In LIS 550 we tackled so many aspects of information that the lay person does not typically think of when handling or retrieving information. We thoroughly discussed issues of copyright (including fair use), ethics, and liability and how information plays a major role in each. This course involved much "thinking like a lawyer" in doing research in particular laws and how those laws are interpreted through specific court cases. Our final project in this course was a group paper combining these three topics in a hypothetical situation involving the fictional library Crystal Springs and their map project that may have gotten out of hand. Here is the (extremely long) final paper.