School of Information Management & Systems   Spring 2001.
285 Design of Library Services.   Michael Buckland.

Program.
This is the intended outline.   Do not expect it to be followed exactly.   See current schedule and 2000 schedule.
A steady flow of mostly small assignments, plus:

Jan 19: Introduction. Guest instructor: Prof. Peter Lyman.
Video on varieties of library services in a developing country.
Jan 26: Paper libraries, automated libraries, and digital libraries. The Liberal Arts of Librarianship: Or, What is interesting in this field for non-librarians and what is it important for non-librarians to talk about? Accreditation. Expectations. The rest of the semester.
Jan 26: How libraries function in one easy lesson: Documents, collections, arrangement, bibliographic access, technical services, logistics. Library-related technology: Printing. (Video). How to find out about libraries and librarianship: Sources.
Feb 2: The history, mission, and political economy of public libraries. UC's 20 million rotting books. (Video). The bibliographic universe: Forms, formats. Genres.
Feb 9: Gender, efficiency, and librarians. Special libraries: Specialized, corporate libraries, corporate knowledge management.
Feb 16: Melvil Dewey, Paul Otlet, etc.: Modernism, machinery, and library economy versus liberty. Library services for children and young adults.
Feb 23: Collections: Selecting, censorship, banning, and Internet filters. National & State Libraries.
Mar 2: Rhetoric, language and libraries: Why libraries always have an attitude. Library buildings. (Video.)
Mar 9: Document, text and hypertext. Library technology: The secret history of the first workstation.
Mar 16: Digital libraries for dummies. Library goodness: Mission, Objectives, Goals, efficiency, effectiveness, outputs, etc.
Mar 23: Numbers: Library budgets and library statistics. Problems and opportunities of academic libraries.
- Mar 30: - Spring break -
Apr 6: Social aspects of bibliographic description.
Apr 13: Library technology: Infrastructure.
Apr 20: Technological change and the library of the future. Library-related careers.
Apr 27: Intellectual property: A contradiction in terms?
May 4: Last class: Synthesis.