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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.
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Credits: 3 Prerequisites: None Corequisites: None
Virtual communities have been around since the 1980s. Today social media and emerging digital tools like Twitter, Google+, Tumblr, Pinterest, Flickr, SlideShare, YouTube, and Facebook allow all citizens to easily collaborate, participate, create and publish. This hands-on, immersive course explores new and emerging social media, focusing a lens on how we might recognize and harness the opportunities they present to advance our individual, organizational, and community goals and to inform and improve professional growth and practice.
This project-based course merges social science, information science and computer science approaches to explore the evolving social and technological forces driving social media services and to evaluate their affordances for practical and professional goals.
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Credits: 3 Prerequisites: None Corequisites: None
Students who participate in WISE consortium courses will be given special permission to register for this course in order to receive credit for their work.
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Credits: 3 Prerequisites: As determined by the topic Corequisites: As determined by the topic
New courses developed in response to emerging areas of interest, and courses in traditional areas given occasionally as student demand dictates.
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Credits: 3 Prerequisites: None Corequisites: None
May be pursued by a student interested in a specialized topic of library/information practice not covered in the curriculum.
Prior to registering, students write a proposal for the study, specifying rationale and outcome, and seek the approval of a faculty member who will supervise the investigation. Usually pursued near the end of a student's program of study.
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Credits: 3 Prerequisites: Successful completion of at least 15 credits of coursework. Arrangements for a field placement must be made with the faculty advisor early in the preceding semester. Corequisites: None
Requires a minimum of 150 hours of supervised professional work in a library or other information organization, attendance at meetings with the faculty adviser and other students, keeping a journal, and a brief summary paper. Placement is based on the student's background and career objectives.
Learning Objectives
Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:
- Synthesize theory and practice.
- Analyze the sponsoring agency’s program of service in terms of its goals and objectives and its clientele.
- Re-examine career goals in light of the experience.
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Credits: 3 Prerequisites: Successful completion of at least 15 credits of coursework and 17:610:514. Field Experience should preferably be undertaken at or near the completion of course work. Corequisites: 17:610:575
Requires a minimum of 150 hours of supervised professional work in a school library. This course is required for state certification for school library media specialists and must be taken concurrently with 17:610:575. Students maintain a journal and their assignments in 575 relate to the Field Experience.
Learning Objectives
Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:
- Understand general principles and concepts.
- Understand the mission, administrative organization, policies and procedures, resources and services, and clientele of a particular school library media center which can serve as an example of its kind and also as a general reference model.
- Make contacts with individual professional school library media specialists; to facilitate the assimilation of professional attitudes and work habits; to acquaint the student with different points of view and a variety of approaches in dealing with problems and responding to service needs.
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Credits: 3 Prerequisites: None Corequisites: None
May be pursued by a student interested in a specialized topic of library/information practice not covered in the curriculum.
Prior to registering, students write a proposal for the study, specifying rationale and outcome, and seek the approval of a faculty member who will supervise the investigation. Usually pursued near the end of a student's program of study.
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Credits: 3 Prerequisites: By special permission number only. Corequisites: None
New courses developed in response to emerging areas of interest, and courses in traditional areas given occasionally as student demand dictates.