Students describe and classify recorded knowledge and learn fundamental principles and practices that facilitate access and retrieval.

Students describe and classify recorded knowledge and learn fundamental principles and practices that facilitate access and retrieval.

Students learn and apply the basic elements of management and leadership within the context of information organizations.

Students learn and apply the basic elements of management and leadership within the context of information organizations.

A survey and historical study of library materials and literature for children up to grade 6. Students will engage in extensive reading, and in the evaluation of books and some multimedia materials. Basic programming will be explored.

Electronic resources include all those systems (databases) and works (ebooks, periodicals) that are collected, described, provided, and managed by librarians and information specialists. Electronic resource management is therefore the management of these resources and this course examines the complexities involved with this activity. Topics covered include electronic resource systems, standards, processes and work flows, licenses, negotiations, access, evaluation, and usability.

How people learn has implications for how learning environments should be designed. This course examines theories of informal learning - primarily drawing upon research from the sociocultural tradition of learning and human development - and considers how they can be practicallyimplemented into information organization contexts.

The goal of this course is to introduce major theories and methods for understanding and analyzing social media for information organizations (both non-profit and profit). This course will review topics such as social networks, ethics and policy, marketing approaches, and social analytics, and then discuss various applications of social media in different disciplines and information organizations including scholarship, library, healthcare, and education.

The course introduces the concepts and practices of information architectures (IA) for a Web site within the context of the organization it serves. It aims to acquaint students with principles and process of information architecture for user-centered design of websites. It also provides students the opportunity to develop practical skills related to the design of information organization and navigation systems.

This course is designed to cover the management, care, and servicing of manuscript and archival material. Attention will also be given to criteria for building an archival/manuscript collection in a repository and to the description and interpretation of its holdings in guides and catalogs for the use of researchers.