School of Information Management & Systems.
Spring 2001.
285
Design of Library Services. Michael Buckland.
Schedule will
resemble the
Spring 2000 schedule.
See Intended Program.
Readings.
May 4: Last class.
May 4: Assignment 11: Service to Special Communities.
May 4: A library's internal system of files.
May 4: Library "goodness": Quality (Capability) and Value (Beneficial effects).
May 4: Effective use of meetings, continued.
Apr 27: Case-study: Community use of library space.
Apr 27: Study guide / Design Study: Report due.
Apr 27: Circulation and duplication policies.
Apr 27: Collection development. Handouts.
Apr 20: Case-study: "Staff Morale".
Apr 20: Handout: PLUS and SOL, Supporting library services to the Spanish Speaking Public.
Apr 20: Assignment 10: Library Guidelines and Standards.
Apr 20: Read
textbook
chapters 18 - 20.
Apr 13: Case study: "Staff concern."
Apr 13: Handout: Classic management principles: Weber and Fayol.
Apr 13: Handout on Budgeting, costs and accounting.
Apr 13: Study guide / Design Study: Progress
Report due.
Apr 13: Read
textbook
chapters 15 - 17.
Apr 6: Visit: Historic book artefacts.
Apr 6: Read
textbook
chapters 11 - 14.
Mar 30: No class: Spring Break.
Mar 23: Study guide / Design Study:
Scope note due.
Mar 23: Preservation of digital materials video: Into the Future.
Mar 23: Assignment 7: Budget Revision due.
Mar 23: Read
textbook
chapters 8 - 10.
Mar 23: Book technology.
Mar 16: Field trip to Information Services of Chiron Corp,
Emeryville.
Mar 16: Examine the Special Libraries
Association website, esp.
Mission.
Mar 16: Sample Information Outlook Current periodicals Z675.A2.I55
Mar 16: Read:
Competencies
for special librarians.
Mar 16: Assignment 6: Accounting Assignment due.
Mar 9:
Assignment 9: Library Management readings:
Steuart and Moran.
Mar 9:
Assignment 12: Libraries in the USA: Readings:
Rubin.
Mar 2: Guest: Michael Gorman.
Mar 2: Read Gorman on values and on cataloging principles. (In Binder)
Feb 23: Optional: at 3-5 p.m.: David Levy on LC21 report.
Feb 23: Read "Executive Summary" of LC21 report; rest optional.
Feb 23: Assignment 5: Literature Reviews due.
Feb 23: Field trip: Meet at 9:20 a.m. at San Francisco PL Main Library.
Feb 23: Read SFPL Main
Occupancy Evalution Final Report
Summary.
Feb 16: Assignment 4: Library Buildings due.
Feb 16: Read
textbook
chapters 6 & 7.
Feb 16: Examine Media Resources Center
website.
Visit at 10:45 a.m.
Feb 9: Video on new main library for Chicago: Design Wars MRC VIDEO C/1699,
Feb 9: Assignment 3: Visit an Unfamiliar Library
due.
Feb 9: Read
textbook
chapters 4 & 5.
Feb 2: Assignment 2: What Managers Do due.
Feb 2: Read
textbook
chapters 1-3.
Feb 2: Assignment 1: Me and Library Services due.
Feb 2: Handout:
National libraries. National Diet Library Video.
Feb 2: The flow of library materials.
Jan 26: What managers do.
Jan 26: Video & handout: Printing Transforms Knowledge. Video C 997:4.
Jan 19: Video: Library services in Venezuela.
Jan 19: Guest instructor: Prof Peter Lyman. Introduction.
Show and tell:
Advances in Librarianship.
American Libraries.
Annual review of Information Science and Technology.
Chronicle of Higher Education. College & Research Libraries.
College & Research Libraries News.
International Encyclopedia of Information and Library Science,
ed. by J. Feather & Paul Sturges.
Library Quarterly.
Library Trends.