Previous Courses

Use of libraries and information technology for scholarly investigation; examines information literacy, critical thinking, digital libraries, university role in knowledge creation. Cross-listed as CAS 101.

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Designed for in-service librarians and other information specialists needing to update their professional skills, focus on a particular topic, or learn new approaches and concepts.

Continues LIS 605 with study of authority work, and further study of non-book materials cataloging, including electronic and Internet resources. Extensive use is made of OCLC Connexion cataloging client.

History of written communication: the recording, preservation, and transmission of knowledge. Development of libraries from earliest times through the 20th century as instruments of cultural transmission.

Survey of government documents at the federal, state/local and international levels in all formats. Covers methods of their acquisition and organization, including depository arrangements. Current issues of government information policies and practices discussed.

An in-depth exploration of the nature of library and archival materials and factors causing deterioration. Provides practical experience in testing and analyzing basic conservation treatments and understanding the role of conservation in preservation planning.

Continues LIS 605 with a focus on authority work and further study of non-book materials cataloging, including electronic and internet resources. Extensive use of OCLC Connexion cataloging client is emphasized.

An overview of systems analysis techniques, benefits, and limitations, focusing on libraries and information agencies. Topics include structured, top-down solutions, object-oriented techniques, and data modeling tools.

Studies archival principles and management theories applicable to all types of repositories, including policy, appraisal, digital applications, and ethical and legal issues.

Explores the theory of archival studies from historical and contemporary perspectives, including public administration, legislation, and relationships to other repositories. Includes a field component.

Focuses on bibliographical structures and sources in the basic and applied sciences, including physics, chemistry, biology, medicine, agriculture, and engineering. Includes a field component.

Covers information structures in humanities disciplines, including fine arts, applied arts, theater arts, literature, music, religion, and philosophy. Topics include information cycle, print and digital reference services, and information-seeking research in the humanities. Includes a field research component.

Examines information structures in social science disciplines, including anthropology, sociology, psychology, education, business, history, and political science. Topics include information cycle, print and digital reference services, and information-seeking research in the social sciences. Includes a field research component.

ntroduces the use of commercial online databases for interactive retrieval of bibliographic, full-text, and directory information. Emphasizes the development of search strategies using controlled subject vocabularies and free-text searching.

Focuses on the theory and practice of enhancing subject access to documents, the impact of indexing vocabulary on retrieval, types of controlled vocabularies, and the creation of abstracts for special local and regional documents.

Demonstrates advanced features of online information retrieval systems and search engines, including natural language searching, citation-based searching, term mapping, similarity searching, result ranking, and clustering for power search web databases.

Surveys topics related to information storage, retrieval, and dissemination technology in libraries and information centers. Emphasizes practice, problems, and theory.

Introduces essential types of digital resources and software tools for efficiently finding high-quality and relevant information from digital journal archives and reference databases.

Overview of the use of media technology and the development of media collections and services in libraries. Use and integration of new emerging technologies, including problems and issues.

Basic theory and principles concerning the management of records within a legal framework – including creation, media selection, use, inactivity, and destruction.

Lecture course discussing and demonstrating the principles and methods of using criteria in evaluating databases used by librarians and information professionals, such as database coverage, source base, currency, accuracy and quality of information.

Study of the components of personalized information systems: information filtering systems with emphasis on modeling and representation of documents, queries, user information preferences, and user-system interaction. Topics include advanced Information Retrieval (IR) models, metadata and markup languages, query operations, thesaurus based IR, acquisition of user profiles, and user/system performance evaluation.

Opportunities for school librarians in their first two years to analyze and apply strategic planning processes in various facets of their work as teacher, instructional consultant, information specialist, and manager.

Effective management of school library media centers. Philosophy and objectives, standards, personnel, facilities, resources, budget, services, library instruction, public relations, program planning and evaluation.

Analysis of traditional literature including Asian and Pacific Island resources. Selection and evaluation of traditional literature materials emphasizing cultural values. Introduction to oral tradition, history and techniques of storytelling.

Surveys reference and research materials in Hawaiian studies, including historical and contemporary works across various disciplines. Covers approaches to reference service, collection building, and management.

Introduces students to Pacific Islands resources with an emphasis on reference works, databases, and websites. Topics include current issues in the contemporary Pacific, regional organizations, indigenous literature, and library development in the Pacific setting.

Studies Asian-American resources for young people, including an overview of socio-historical roots of these ethnic groups. Evaluates resources and examines curriculum and program uses in a multicultural context.

Special topics in librarianship, concentrating on one major topic of current interest, such as library service to the aged, reprography, medical librarianship, knowledge management, art librarianship, cartography, etc. Repeatable.

Special topics in information technology, concentrating on one major topic of current interest, such as information transfer, networks, library information systems, artificial intelligence applications. Repeatable up to nine credits.

Seminar in research in library and information science, focusing on various methodologies and their application to problems of librarianship. Includes evaluation of research studies, developing, writing, and critiquing proposals. Experience with statistical packages for data analysis.

Seminar in international librarianship, exploring global perspectives and practices in the field of librarianship.

Literature of Asia in Western and Asian languages; bibliography, reference tools, research methods, sources, published and archival repositories. Repeatable one time.

Public and organization information policy and planning in society; public access; impact and issues of information technology and the Internet; privacy, security, globalization, intellectual freedom, copyright issues.