School of Information Management & Systems
Spring 2001.
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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.