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Credits: 3 Prerequisites: Successful completion of at least 15 credits of coursework and 17:610:514. Corequisites: 17:610:592
This course examines the philosophy and creative leadership of school library programs. Using a case study approach our explorations include the planning and evaluation of a school library program, as students explore the transformational role of the school librarian as leader of a learning culture and institutional change.
Learning Objectives
Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:
- Relate studies in change and transformational leadership to the success and impact of schools and school libraries.
- Analyze the context of the school library services through a scan of a specific community and school.
- Develop and write a strategic plan for the school library, including personas, vision and mission statements, goals and objectives, and an action plan.
- Evaluate the impact of and potential for a school library program in a school's learning culture.
- Respond to emerging trends and develop proficiency in using digital tools for productivity, creating, curation, collaboration, communicating, and managing workflow in the K12 environment
- Strategically address practical problems, critical and ethical issues, and policy matters in a school setting, paying particular attention to issues relating to access, participation, diversity, and inclusion
- Build a personal learning network to promote continual professional growth and engage in interconnected communities of practice.
- Develop strategies for advocay, engagement, and innovative leadership and growth in the K12 school learning culture and in the larger context of the profession.
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Credits: 3 Prerequisites: None Corequisites: None
This course examines the application of specific knowledge, tools, and techniques to deliver something of value – a unique product, service, or result – to people
Learning Objectives
Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:
- Employ project management strategy design, development, and deployment in an information intensive setting.
- Describe the implications, challenges, and opportunities of organizational dynamics in project management.
- Develop effective approaches, communication strategies, and best practices for managing high-performance project teams.
- Utilize project management tools, techniques, and skills to effectively lead or participate in a project.
- Utilize key performance metrics for project success.
- Apply the steps that must be taken to complete projects on time and on budget.
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Credits: 3 Prerequisites: None Corequisites: None
The course prepares students to think critically about ethical debates surrounding information and technology in their personal and professional futures. Drawing from classical ethical frameworks and more current and diverse concepts of justice that focus on race, class, and gender, we analyze case studies from real-life situations to discuss, understand, and critique the value systems and power structures embedded in information work. Cases examine how information technologies shape and are shaped by cultural, societal, professional, community, and individual values, including an exploration of the impact of such values on professional practice, decision-making, and public policy.
Learning Objectives
Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:
- Identify ethical dilemmas that may arise in professional or workplace situations related to information, technology, or data work;
- Demonstrate an ability to apply different ethical frames to real-world problems that arise in information professions;
- Evaluate how cultural norms have shaped the study of information ethics and values;
- Articulate how power operates within information society and identify avenues for change;
- Apply critical thinking skills in identifying the stakeholders involved in an organization’s decision making as well as the implications of a decision;
- Provide research, factual information, and the impact on stakeholders in arguing a case;
- Distinguish the relationship between ethical principles and codes of ethics in making sound decisions.
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Credits: 3 Prerequisites: None Corequisites: None
Introduction to the production, dissemination, and consumption of knowledge in society, related to roles of information professionals and the functions of libraries and other information institutions. Differences among disciplines in how knowledge is recorded and transmitted. Global issues and trends in society that have affected scholarly communication and the access to information for the public.
Learning Objectives
Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:
- Compare and contrast diverse knowledge systems and understanding of their role in framing social worlds, moral codes, and practice.
- Understand knowledge systems from a historical and multicultural perspective.
- Assess the role of contemporary library and information agencies in providing access to knowledge systems through information infrastructure and the role of information professionals.
- Express their epistemological position and evaluate how it may affect their contribution to knowledge production in building information infrastructures (selection of materials, providing access to materials in information agencies).
- Examine historical artifacts in the context of production, dissemination, and consumption of knowledge.
- Evaluate representational systems and organizational schemes for access of knowledge artifacts in a variety of settings, with an emphasis on the traditional context of information work in libraries, archives, and museums.
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Credits: 3 Prerequisites: None Corequisites: None
Technological innovation, computerization, and electronic information are associated with dilemmas, value conflicts, and choices surrounding the scholarly, personal, and professional use of information. Addresses social relationships, technological utopianism, societal control, vulnerability of information systems, and ethical responsibilities.
Learning Objectives
Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:
- Analyze and discuss the impact of Information and Communication technologies in various social contexts.
- Express and critically discuss how ICTs have impacted information service environments
- Make meaningful assessments of their participation in and use of virtual communities in personal and work related contexts.
- Engage with core concepts and underlying theory of social and community informatics
- Critically analyze the assets and liabilities that social media tools bring to the workplace and personal contexts
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Credits: 3 Prerequisites: None Corequisites: None
The economic, social, and political forces affecting the introduction and implementation of current information legislation and policy, set within the theoretical context of frame reflection. Emphasis on national and global policy in the design of evolving electronic infrastructures. Particular attention given to issues of access, including universal service, intellectual freedom, intellectual property rights, privacy, security, advocacy, equity, and the role of library and information professionals and organizations in policy formulation.
Learning Objectives
Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:
- Understand the complexities of policy making in the United States.
- Assess the means of addressing information-related problems and processes through legislative, administrative, judicial and/or other government actions.
- Be equipped to identify key stakeholders and their viewpoints, underlying goals and values, principles, and strategies for promoting information policy changes.
- Demonstrate an understanding of major policy issues important to the information, communication, and technology professions and to the public at large regarding privacy, government information, secrecy, information equity, and copyright.
- Analyze policy issues to recognize the strengths, weaknesses, costs, consequences and tradeoffs of information policies.
- Recognize, evaluate and determine emerging policy issues.
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Credits: 3 Prerequisites: None Corequisites: None
Students will get an introduction to the current issues and trends in preservation, archival theory, and conservation. They will learn about the historical and emergent forms and how materials of cultural and scientific knowledge are accessible to present users and future generations, about the methods of assessment for providing access to analog and digital records as trustworthy evidence and memory covering activities of individuals, families, organizations, groups, and movements. Focus will be on critical thinking around privacy, human rights, social justice, activism, and memorial contestation. Students will be oriented to the principles of archival professional practice of arrangement and description; appraisal theories; and learn about the practices for diverse organizations in the changing perspectives and social contexts.
Recommended for students in the Archives and Preservation sub-area as the foundational course to take before enrolling in specialized classes.
Learning Objectives
Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:
- Comprehend the foundational dimensions of the archival and preservation practice and theory in the historical and the changing perspectives and social contexts.
- Evaluate institutional frameworks, representational systems, and organizational schemes related to archives and preservation.
- Understand the politics of archives and preservation for the knowledge continuum in diverse contexts and media forms.
- Understand the contemporary practices involving archival material and curating a collection.
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Credits: 3 Prerequisites: None Corequisites: None
This course examines the historical and legal background of intellectual freedom in libraries as well as current trends and topics. The course discusses the many challenges to the concept and practice of intellectual freedom from technological to political to legal. Students learn how to articulate, promote, and defend intellectual freedom policies as a key component of professional practice in all types of library and information services.
Learning Objectives
Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:
- Understand the freedoms and limitations defined by the U.S. Constitution, statutes, and the Courts related to intellectual freedom.
- Articulate the professional, theoretical, and historical foundations of intellectual freedom in library and information services.
- Promote and explain arguments in favor of intellectual freedom through the library and information science professions.
- Identify contemporary, emerging challenges to intellectual freedom in library and information services.
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Credits: 3 Prerequisites: None Corequisites: None
This course focuses on the examination and evaluation of materials for adult library users, with special attention to fiction genres. Use of materials in programming. Emphasis on popular culture and adult literacy.
Learning Objectives
Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:
- Compare and contrast the cultural environment of contemporary mass society with the contemporary library and information agencies.
- Understand the reading interests and the programming role of agencies responsible for creation and distribution of reading materials.
- Examine the cultural environment in which choices are made for selection of reading materials and collection development in libraries.
- Discuss one or more adult reading interest genres in depth.
- Evaluate how own reading interests may affect evaluation of patrons' interests and selection of materials.
- Evaluate reading materials for adult library users.
- Use materials in programming in a variety of settings, with an emphasis on the public library
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Credits: 3 Prerequisites: None Corequisites: None
The course will examine the production and circulation of knowledge in light of changing technologies, institutions and textual forms. An overview and comparison of textual transmission in oral, manuscript, print and electronic communication environments will include regulatory frameworks and the history of “intellectual property” (from attribution, authorship, to participatory ownership of creation). It will examine the current scholarship relevant for understanding books, documents and record manifestations comparatively. The focus on the book trades, web spheres, and socio-technical systems such as digital libraries will prompt questions about the nature of texts (print, non-print, and digital), their reception, associated literacy practices, communities and institutional contexts. The course will present a critique of the technological revolution perspective.
Learning Objectives
Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:
- Understand how information is created, preserved and communicated in different historical periods.
- Compare and contrast textual transmission processes in print and electronic environments and communication shifts.
- Understand the structure of texts and protocols for their reception in a historical framework.
- Examine theoretical issues and selected in-depth study of significant case studies in the current multidisciplinary scholarship of electronic and print culture.
- Examine methods and sources for the study of print and electronic texts and application of these methods for in-depth study of such texts, their production, circulation or use.