Resources for LIS701 at Dominican University GSLIS by Michael Stephens
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An overview of the history, philosophy, purpose, functions and processes, users, collections, and evaluation of academic, public, school, and special libraries and information centers; of the history and trends of books and other media, publishing, and information technology; of the principles and basic elements of the collection development process; of relevant legal and ethical topics -- intellectual property (copyright), access, confidentiality of records, intellectual freedom, and censorship; and, of current professional issues.
Textbooks
Textbooks
Rubin, Richard E. Foundations of Library and Information Science New York: Neal-Schuman, 2000.
Gordon, Rachel S. The Nextgen Librarian's Survival Guide. Medford, NJ, Information Today, 2006.
Gorman, Michael. Our Enduring Values: Librarianship in the 21st Century. Chicago, IL: American Library Association, 2000.
In addition, students will read a non-fiction book for discussion, and the following additional articles or online resources:
Rubin, Richard E. Foundations of Library and Information Science New York: Neal-Schuman, 2000.
Gordon, Rachel S. The Nextgen Librarian's Survival Guide. Medford, NJ, Information Today, 2006.
Gorman, Michael. Our Enduring Values: Librarianship in the 21st Century. Chicago, IL: American Library Association, 2000.
In addition, students will read a non-fiction book for discussion, and the following additional articles or online resources:
Week 2 Readings: Foundations & History
- What is a library anymore, anyway?
- by Michael A. Keller, Victoria A. Reich, and Andrew C. Herkovic
Libraries in the future will undertake local control, especially for long-term preservation and accessibility of digital as well as analog collections. Failure to embrace that role would cause libraries and librarians rapidly to lose relevance and value as Internet and other digital resources develop. Local control of collections is critical both to assure permanence and to provide a key degree of selectivity, which - contrary to the irrational exuberance of making everything available to everybody - is vital to providing service to communities of readers. Librarians need new tools, such as the LOCKSS system, to enable both persistence and selection of electronic information. - Information as Thing / Michael Buckland
- Three meanings of "information" are distinguished: "Information-as-process"; "information-as-knowledge"; and "information-as-thing", the attributive use of "information" to denote things regarded as informative. The nature and characteristics of "information-as-thing" are discussed, using an indirect approach ("What things are informative?"). Varieties of "information-as-thing" include data, text, documents, objects, and events. On this view "information" includes but extends beyond communication. Whatever information storage and retrieval systems store and retrieve is necessarily "information-as-thing".
These three meanings of "information", along with "information processing", offer a basis for classifying disparate information-related activities (e.g. rhetoric, bibliographic retrieval, statistical analysis) and, thereby, suggest a topography for "information science".
Week 5 Readings: Collection Development
- "Overview of Collection Development" section on: Arizona Department of Library, Archives and Public Records. Collection Development Training for Arizona Public Libraries: Tutorial
- Collection development (also known as collection or materials management) involves the identification, selection, acquisition, and evaluation of a collection of library resources (e.g., print materials, audiovisual materials, electronic resources) for a community of users. While it is the goal of collection development to meet the information needs of everyone in a user community, this is not usually realized due to financial constraints, the diversity of user information needs, and the vast amount of available information. Nonetheless, public libraries strive to provide the greatest number of library resources to meet the information and recreational needs of the majority of their user community, within the confines of fiscal realities.
Week 7 Readings: Ethics
- ALA Code of Ethics
- As members of the American Library Association, we recognize the importance of codifying and making known to the profession and to the general public the ethical principles that guide the work of librarians, other professionals providing information services, library trustees and library staffs.
Ethical dilemmas occur when values are in conflict. The American Library Association Code of Ethics states the values to which we are committed, and embodies the ethical responsibilities of the profession in this changing information environment.
Libraries on the Cluetrain
- The Cluetrain Manifesto: The Hyperlinked Organization
- Then the Web crept into our offices under false pretenses. We thought first it was a library of information. Then we thought it was a publishing medium. Then we thought it was a toy or a dangerous distraction. But in fact it is a conversation of a new type, free of the need to get permission from Dad and his army buddies.
New types of connections. The heart flowing to other hearts. A new rhythm. A new causality. A new understanding of power. Conversation that understands that it isn't a distraction from work, it's the real work of business.
The Web is hitting business with the force of a whirlwind because it is a whirlwind. The closely held, tightly packed, beautifully tooled pieces are being pulled apart. They are rebinding themselves in patterns determined by the conversations that are occurring in every conceivable tone of voice.
Library 2.0/Library Futures
- Library 2.0
- By Michael E. Casey and Laura C. Savastinuk - Library Journal September 1, 2006
Service for the next-generation library
Libraries are changing. Funding limits and customer demands are transforming staffing levels, service models, access to resources, and services to the public. Administrators and taxpayers are seeking more efficient ways of delivering services to achieve greater returns on financial investments.
Enter Library 2.0. This new model for library service is being discussed online, at conferences, in administrative offices, and at the reference desk. If you and your library staff are not among those already talking 2.0, pay attention; Library 2.0 could revitalize the way we serve and interact with our customers.
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Holding an MLS from Indiana University, Michael Stephens has spent the last fifteen years in public libraries working as a reference librarian, techno... (more)
