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Credits: 3 Prerequisites: None Corequisites: None
This course prepares school and youth service librarians to take leadership in creating cultures of literacy for young people aged 12-18. Students will explore both traditional and emerging social/digital strategies to match readers with books across genres and media formats, plan and implement reader-centered activities, model critical thinking relating to the reading of nonfiction and fiction, and celebrate authors and reading.
Learning Objectives
Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:
- Demonstrate the practiced ability to separate their personal responses to reading materials from their professional role in selecting and sharing writing and art with young adults
(NJAC VII) - Show their ability to analyze Young Adult literature, including realism, fantasy, and nonfiction in the context of our diverse multicultural society and the changing experiences of adolescents (NJAC VII)
- Manifest an ability to obtain, select and utilize appropriate evaluation tools including critical commentary from reputable publications, comments from teenagers, and insights from peers (NJAC III)
- Demonstrate an understanding of the Common Core ELA standards (and current state variants) and how they relate to the needs of teenagers and the nature of YA collections. (NJAC II)
- Present an engaged and nuanced evaluation of a major Young Adult author as a model for book talks and other presentations. (NJAC VII)
- Show the ability to plan and budget book-related activities for a YA library through specific fully-realized examples. (III)
- Demonstrate the practiced ability to separate their personal responses to reading materials from their professional role in selecting and sharing writing and art with young adults
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Credits: 3 Prerequisites: None Corequisites: None
This course offers students a hands-on introduction to software tools and technology used in the creation and delivery of information services. Students will learn key concepts and skills related to Web technologies (e.g., HTML, CSS, Frameworks), Web programming (e.g., JavaScript, PHP) and Data management (e.g., MySQL). Students will learn how to use and evaluate Web services and open source software tools. Students will learn how information technology is used in today’s information organizations and libraries, e.g., integrated library systems, technical services, document management, and provision of Web services. The knowledge and skills conveyed in this course will assist students in applying information, web and data technologies in various information services and in their professional practice.
Learning Objectives
Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:
- Create Screencasts and Work with Different Media Types, such as images, audio and video.
- Utilize Web Services, such as online surveys, Google Analytics or Web APIs, in the design and development of information services.
- Create and upload HTML Web pages that are standards compliant and contain relative and absolute links, tables, images and embedded video or data widgets.
- Design external Cascading Style Sheets that control the layout and visual appearance of a set of Web pages.
- Design Responsive Layouts that control the layout and visual appearance of a set of Web pages on different display devices.
- Understand the Basics of JavaScript to create simple or customize existing code samples.
- Understand the Basics of Scripting Languages, such as PHP, to create simple and useful scripts to develop information service.
- Create a Database Application using MySQL that shows information organized into one or more Tables, a data entry Form, multiple Queries for simple information retrieval, and one or more Reports for the presentation of information.
- Evaluate an Open Source Software Tool and assess the advantages and disadvantages of using such tools in a library or business setting.
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Credits: 3 Prerequisites: 17:610:510 and 550 Corequisites: None
Theory, design, use, and evaluation of information retrieval (IR) systems. Design principles for IR systems and their implementation, characteristics of operational and experimental retrieval systems, and evaluation of information retrieval systems.
Learning Objectives
Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:
- Identify and describe the operation of the different components of IR systems
- Compare different IR systems according to their methods and performance
- Design and implement a summative evaluation scheme for operational IR systems
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Credits: 3 Prerequisites: None Corequisites: None
This course introduces students to the reasoning and logic behind computing, and the mathematical thinking behind computing concepts. Theoretical concepts will be put to practice in learning to create practical computing applications.
Learning Objectives
Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:
- Examine the reasoning and logic behind computing concepts.
- Demonstrate basic understanding of the mathematical concepts behind computing.
- Analyze identified problems in a logical and computational manner.
- Follow logical reasoning and thinking to create algorithms to solve analyzed problems.
- Write algorithms to list the steps a computer should follow when solving the problem.
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Credits: 3 Prerequisites: None Corequisites: None
Fundamental issues, problems, and approaches to digital libraries, reflecting differing efforts and thinking in a number of fields and enterprises. Variety of digital library collections; organization, access, and use of digital libraries. Technical infrastructure; socioeconomic issues; integration of information resources; relation to traditional libraries. Current projects and initiatives.
Learning Objectives
Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:
- Understand the complexities of digital libraries.
- Start their development toward a professional with expertise in digital libraries.
- Participate in creation of a digital library.
- Be involved in operation and organization of a digital library.
- Contribute to evaluation of a digital library or its services.
- Critically consider and evaluate advances in digital libraries, including research and development in general.
- Understand and follow many economic, legal, and social issues facing digital libraries.
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Credits: 3 Prerequisites: 17:610:550 Corequisites: None
Design of presentations using texts, graphics, images, sounds. User interpretation, navigation, and interaction with visualizations. Visualization in information retrieval, and interfaces in library and information processes. Effective display and presentation of information in organizational contexts, using various formats, both print and electronic.
Learning Objectives
Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:
- Understand human visual perception and how it relates to creating effective information visualizations.
- Understand the key design principles for creating information visualizations.
- Recognize the major existing techniques and systems in information visualization.
- Evaluate information visualizations tools.
- Design new, innovative visualizations.
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Credits: 3 Prerequisites: 17:610:550 Corequisites: None
A laboratory course in the design and production of multimedia resources for libraries, media centers, and information systems and other informational applications. Examines and critiques current uses of new media and provides skills in user-centered multimedia design.
Learning Objectives
Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:
- Create and design user-centered, instructional multimedia.
- Practice multimedia production, including digitization of images, sounds, animation and video, and hypertext authoring.
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Credits: 3 Prerequisites: None Corequisites: None
How to keep what we have for as long as we want to have it. The risks to physical materials, and the ways of preventing loss. Deterioration, environmental controls, and principles of handling. Reformatting. Digital preservation.
Learning Objectives
Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:
- Understand why the contents of libraries are at risk.
- Assess the problems in a particular library.
- Recommend solutions.
- Assess the relative advantages of repair or reformatting.
- Preserve digital information.
- Create plans for physical protection.
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Credits: 3 Prerequisites: 17:610:550 Corequisites: None
This course introduces students to databases, data modeling, and database management systems for information management and retrieval. Both theory and practical technology experiences will take place balancing database concepts, design, implementation and usage.
Learning Objectives
Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:
- Examine and evaluate the ways a database, a DBMS, and the people who interact with them meet applied needs in technical, business, societal, and other contexts.
- Design, document, develop, and deploy a database and build a database user interface via standard practices and processes.
- Utilize standard processes and procedures to identify and resolve structural data integrity problems.
- Construct Structured Query Language (SQL) statements to define, manipulate, query, and control data in a relational database.
- Retrieve information from data stored in a relational database, perform data analysis, and generate reports.
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Credits: 3 Prerequisites: 17:610:550 and 17:610:553 Corequisites: 17:610:550 and 17:610:553
Organizational, technical, and logistical issues concerning the design and implementation of electronic collections, documents, and services. Students learn in the context of building their own prototype digital library.
Learning Objectives
Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:
- Understand the complexities of designing and implementing a digital library.
- Identify tasks and skills necessary to build a digital library.
- Perform the basic tasks related to digital libraries.
- Address and analyze emerging issues in creating digital libraries in a group setting.
- Demonstrate skills related to digital project management.
- Provide basic documentation related to digital projects.