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100-Level Courses
LIS199	Undergraduate Open Seminar [First-Year Discovery Program]
Credit	1 to 5 hours. May be repeated
Description	Topics vary. See individual sections. Established in 1994, the Discovery Program helps Illinois students enhance their education through greater interaction with faculty in small classes. The interactive courses also enable faculty to share their research in a particular area with students. It is intended for first-year students only. Discovery sections cover a wide range of disciplines and enrollment is limited to a maximum of twenty students per section. Some Discovery courses can be used to satisfy General Education requirements or requirements in a major, while others are electives.
Prerequisites	Freshman Standing

200-Level Courses
LIS201	Info Technology and Orgs [Information Technology, and Organizations]
Credit	3 UG hours
Description	[Same as MS 201] Explores the way in which social aspects of information use combine with technical aspects of information technologies in organizational settings. This course examines the way in which organizations collect, process, and exchange information, the technologies they use to handle information, and the organizational, technological and societal factors that affect information processing goals. [General Education approved course for Social and Behavioral Sciences: Social Science (GEN ED: SS).]
Prerequisites	Sophomore, junior or senior.
LIS202	Social Aspects Info Systems [Social Aspects of Information Systems]
Credit	3 UG hours
Description	[Same as INFO 202 (controlling dept) and MS 202] Explores the way in which information technologies have and are transforming society and how these affect a range of social, political and economic issues from the individual to societal levels. The course explores the impact of communications and information technology in a wider societal context. The issues explored include the history of communication media and institutions, including publishing, broadcast, film, and the Internet; communication policy; and social impacts of technology. [General Education approved course for Social and Behavioral Sciences: Social Science [GEN ED: SS].
Prerequisites	Sophomore, junior or senior.

300-Level Courses
LIS310	Computing in the Humanities
Credit	3 UG hours
Description	Explores use and application of computers to scholarly activity in the humanities, including computer-based cooperation agreements and their impact on humanities scholarship, and computers and writing, and related topics.
Prerequisites	Sophomore, junior or senior
LIS351	Design Info Interfaces [The Design of Usable Information Interfaces]
Credit	3 UG hours
Description	Examines issues of human-computer interaction and the design of better computer interfaces. Students review interfaces to a number of different information systems to gain an understanding of the challenges and trade-offs in good design. The course involves practical interdisciplinary team work in designing, testing, and improving interfaces.
Prerequisites	Sophomore, junior or senior
LIS352	Cognitive Psych Info Systems [Cognitive Psychology of Information Systems]
Credit	3 UG hours
Description	Introduction to research and theory in human cognition with emphasis on its relationship to computer models of these processes and implications for building information systems. Students will conduct a series of brief studies of current information systems and report on the strengths and weaknesses of the system in relation to human cognitive ability, along with recommendations for the redesign of these information systems.
Prerequisites	Sophomore, junior or senior
LIS390	Special Topics Info Studies [Special Topics in Information Studies]
Credit	1 to 3 UG hours. May be repeated in same or separate semesters as topics vary to a maximum of 12 hours.
Description	Directed and supervised investigation of selected topics in information studies that may include, among others, computers and culture; information policy; community information systems; production, retrieval and evaluation of scientific or social science knowledge; computer-mediated communication; and computer-supported cooperative work. See individual sections for descriptions of each topic.
Prerequisites	Sophomore, junior or senior
LIS390BI	Bodies of Information
Credit	3 UG hours
Description	Investigates how information has been transmitted and preserved through time. Students will explore different ?bodies of information' in writing, print, and computational code, and consider the significance of communicative technologies in the transmission of ideas. In addition, libraries, archives, museums, and other informational organizations may be examined for their role in the formulation and preservation of intellectual and artistic tradition.
Prerequisites	Sophomore standing
LIS390BSI	Business, Soc Sci & Internet [Business, Social Science and the Internet]
Credit	3 UG hours
Description	A hands-on introduction to understanding and using business and social science information, especially that which is available on the Internet. The course covers general issues concerning use of the Internet as a source of information, including the evaluation of information reliability, and of search and retrieval techniques. Students will also gain an awareness of issues of business and social science information production, distribution, organization, and use.
Prerequisites	LIS 201 or LIS 202, or permission of instructor. Restriction: Students may not take both LIS 390 BSI and LIS 390 G.
LIS390BTW	Serving Child in Schools/Comm
Credit	2 UG hours
Description	This community engagement course is designed for students interested in working with children (defined as birth through high school), careers serving children, and/or parenthood. The focus for this course is tutoring and mentoring children (elementary through high school). A minimum of two hours per week of approved community service related to children is a requirement of the course. Placements with schools will be made through the course instructor. Class content focuses on relating to children, motivating and engaging children in learning, community institutions and agencies serving children, and social issues affecting the lives of American children today. This section focuses on elementary through middle school. Placements will be at Booker T. Washington Elementary School in Champaign, with other sites added as needed. Students must be able to tutor at least one of following times: Tu, Wed, Th from 3:00-5:00 p.m. Meets with CI 260BTW and LIS 590BTW.
Prerequisites
LIS390CC	Computers and Culture
Credit	3 UG hours
Description	Explores cultural ideas about computers, including hopes and fears about the effects of computers on our lives. Will analyze images of computers in fiction and movies. The course will also examine hackers, online subcultures, and other computer-related subcultures, and the integration of computers into various cultural practices.
Prerequisites	Sophomore, junior or senior
LIS390EC	Ethics in Cyberspace
Credit	3 UG hours
Description	Examines a variety of ethical issues raised by uses of the Internet, high speed telecommunications and sophisticated computer technology. The course is primarily applied, drawing on an introduction to the difference between the law and ethics, frameworks for making ethical decisions and codes of ethics of various professional groups. Using case studies, students will consider ethics in such areas as online gambling, online pornography, P2P file sharing, and uses of medical records.
Prerequisites	Sophomore, junior or senior
LIS390EMT	Emerging Technologies
Credit	3 UG hours
Description	The course is designed for undergraduate students who are interested in examining various uses of emerging information technologies, as well as identifying and assessing their social impacts. The course sessions will include guest lectures, computer-based activities, demonstrations, and discussions. Possible student projects could include evaluation of the use of such emerging technologies and research on these technologies, specific to their majors or interests.
Prerequisites	Sophomore, junior or senior
LIS390G	Science and the Internet
Credit	3 UG hours
Description	A hands-on introduction to understanding and using scientific information, especially that which is available on the Internet. The course covers general issues concerning use of the Internet as a source of information, including the evaluation of information reliability, and of search and retrieval techniques. Students will also gain an awareness of issues of information production, distribution, organization, and use in science.
Prerequisites	LIS 201 or LIS 202, or permission of instructor. Restriction: Students may not take both LIS 390G and LIS 390 BSI.
LIS390HFI	Hist Found of Info Society [The Historical Foundations of Information Society]
Credit	3 UG hours
Description	Today's information society bespeaks a long history, exhibiting marked continuities with the past as well as some sharply defined new features. Yet the historical foundations of the information society remain poorly understood. This course develops such a framework, by examining emergent information institutions and practices from early modern Europe to the later 20th century. It examines the historical development of the information society through a number of important conceptual lenses, including: modernity and post-modernity; Fordist and post-Fordist capitalism; social class and information poverty; social and technological determinism; utopianism and dystopianism; and empire and globalization. This course currently counts as an elective in the informatics minor and will count as a required core course for the informatics major once that degree program is approved.
Prerequisites	Sophomore standing.
LIS390IOE	Info Org in Everday Life [Information Organization in Everyday Life]
Credit	3 UG hours
Description	Information organization is part of our everyday life. In addition to traditional organizational systems, new computer applications are providing tools for individuals to organize and access their personal collections. This course teaches principles of information organization and access. Students will learn about topics such as user needs assessment, collection development, classification, and metadata. Students will apply these concepts by working with a collection of items that they possess ? for example, music, games, photos, or a physical collection such as shoes.
Prerequisites	Sophomore, junior or senior
LIS390KM	Knowledge Management
Credit	3 UG hours
Description	Offers students an understanding of knowledge management (KM) in organizations. The course will examine the ways in which organizations generate, organize, share and apply knowledge; how contemporary and emerging technologies can help organizations improve these activities; and the social factors that affect organizations' KM objectives. Students will work on real-world KM problems presented by representatives from Fortune 100 companies. Students need no prior experience either with technology or with organizational studies.
Prerequisites	Sohomore, junior or senior
LIS390MSI	Music & Sound as Information
Credit	3 UG hours
Description	The advent of multimedia computing has awakened interest in the representation, manipulation, and use of both music and sound as part of our everyday lives. This introductory course will examine the wide variety of methods used to create, record, represent, modify, and present music and sound information. Basic acoustics, major notation schemes, and formats such as streaming audio, mp3, WAV, and MIDI, are explored with an eye toward learning how music and sound fit into our information universe.
Skill	basic computer skills
Prerequisites	LIS 201 or LIS 202 and junior or senior standing, or permission of instructor.
LIS390RGI	Race, Gender and Info Tech [Race, Gender and Information Technology]
Credit	3 UG hours
Description	This course examines how gender and race affect, and are affected by, information technologies. Race and gender representations will be studied in different settings as they intersect with information use and technology practices. The course is framed by two broad, interrelated concepts -- the expression of identity (individual and group) in cyberspace and the "digital divide." The course readings are drawn from several disciplines and an eclectic array of in-class and out-of-class projects and exercises will be assigned.
Prerequisites	Sophomore, junior or senior
LIS390VGD	Video Game Design
Credit	3 UG hours
Description	This course will cover the process of game design and development. Students will beome part of a game design team to create a working video game using the Torque Engine by GarageGames. No experience with Torque is necessary, and students will draw upon their different backgrounds and skills to contribute to the game design process. Students will also learn about important current issues in game design, including accessibility for gamers with disabilities, and concerns regarding mature sexual and violent themes. Student will receive content and design support from game industry veterans and game companies.
Prerequisites	Sophomore, junior or senior standing
LIS390W1A	Web Technologies Techniques [Web Technologies and Techniques]
Credit	3 UG hours
Description	This course provides an introduction to the technologies behind the Web. Topics covered include: hypertext, hypermedia, the history of the Web, the role of Web standards and their impact on the development of Web resources. The course introduces principles of Web design and usability. Students will gain an understanding how the Web works and how to design, construct, evaluate, and maintain Web-based materials. [Same as LIS 390 W1B]
Prerequisites	Sophomore, junior or senior
LIS390WP	Programming Web Mashups
Credit	3 UG hours
Description	This course provides an introduction to web programming and web application development. In addition to developing their own web applications, students will integrate existing web applications into their own through open protocols and APIs. Topic covered include: fundamental programming concepts, database modeling, web service infrastructures and protocols, server-side programming languages and tools. Students will gain an understanding of issues involved in designing and developing interactive, dynamic web sites and familiarity with existing tools and resources on the web.
Prerequisites	Sophomore, junior or senior

400-Level Courses
LIS403	Lit and Resources Children [Literature and Resources for Children]
Credit	3 UG hours [Section AU]; 2 to 4 GR hours [Section AG]
Description	Evaluation, selection and use of books and other resources for children (ages 0-14) in public libraries and school media centers; explores standard selection criteria for print and nonprint materials in all formats and develops the ability to evaluate and promote materials according to their various uses (personal and curricular) and according to children's various needs (intellectual, emotional, social and physical).
Prerequisites	Junior or senior standing and consent of instructor for undergraduates; LIS graduate student.
LIS404	Lit and Resources Young Adults [Literature and Resources for Young Adults]
Credit	3 UG hours [Section AU]; 2 or 4 GR hours [Section AG]
Description	Evaluation, selection and use of books and other resources for young adults (ages 12-18) in public libraries and school media centers; explores standard selection criteria for print and nonprint materials in all formats and develops the ability to evaluate and promote materials according to their various uses (personal and curricular) and according to young adults' various needs (intellectual, emotional, social and physical).
Prerequisites	Junior or senior standing and consent of instructor for undergraduates and non-LIS graduate students; LIS graduate student.
LIS409	Storytelling
Credit	3 UG hours [Section AU]; 2 or 4 GR hours [Section AG]
Description	Fundamental principles of the art of storytelling including techniques of adaptation and presentation; content and sources of materials; story cycles; methods of learning; practice in storytelling; and planning the story hour for school and public libraries, recreational centers, the radio, and television.
Prerequisites	Junior or senior standing and consent of instructor for undergraduates and non-LIS graduate students; LIS graduate student.
LIS410	Text Information Systems [Same as CS 410 -- Computer Science is the controlling department]
Credit	3 UG hours [Section B3]; 4 GR hours [Section B4]
Description	[Same as CS 410--Computer Science is controlling dept.] Introduction to the theory, design, and implementation of text-based information systems. Text analysis, retrieval models (e.g., Boolean, vector space, probabilistic), text categorization, text filtering, clustering, retrieval system design and implementation, and applications to web information management.
Prerequisites	CS 225 or CS 400 or consent of instructor.
LIS451	Intro to Network Systems [Introduction to Network Information Systems]
Credit	4 hours [UG and GR]
Description	Hands-on introduction to technology systems for use in information environments. The course steps students through choosing, installing, and managing computer hardware and operating systems, as well as networking hardware and software. Students will have an opportunity to design and create a working network environment as part of the course work. Mid-semester and end of semester field trips required. Details in syllabus.
Prerequisites	LIS student. NON-LIS students and juniors or seniors must get permission of instructor to enroll.
LIS452	Foundations Info Proc in LIS [Foundations of Information Processing in Lib & Info Science]
Credit	4 UG hours [Section AU]; 2 or 4 GR hours [Section AG]
Description	[Undergrads enroll in 452AU; Graduate students in 452AG] Covers the common data and document processing constructs and programming concepts used in library and information science. The history, strengths and weaknesses of the techniques are evaluated in the context of our discipline. These constructs and techniques form the basis of applications in areas such as bibliographic records management, full text management and multimedia. No prior programming background is assumed.
Skill	basic Unix
Prerequisites	Junior, senior or graduate student
LIS453	Systems Analysis and Mgt [Systems Analysis and Management]
Credit	3 UG hours [Section AU]; 4 GR hours [Section AG]
Description	Covers how to evaluate, select and manage the information systems that will be used in the daily operation of libraries and information centers. Includes the systems used by technical staff and the information consumers. Course will focus on information as a product. Attention is given to the operation of an organization as a whole and the impact of change on the integration of resources, work flow and usability. Formal methods for modeling systems, and industry practice techniques of analysis are used to address these problems and opportunities. [Required core course for the CAS in Digital Libraries concentration]
Prerequisites	Junior, senior or graduate student.
LIS454	Network Systems Administration
Credit	3 UG hours [Section AE3]; 2 or 4 GR hours [Section AE4]
Description	Issues and tools for remote technology-based communication and information systems. Current and historical trends in methods for electronic information dissemination and communication, and their impact on society, organizations and individuals are discussed. Topics include systems, issues and changes in: interpersonal, group, and mass communication; publishing; information access; education, and other areas. Hands-on use and evaluation of currently available network-based communication and retrieval systems.
Prerequisites	LIS 451 or consent of instructor
LIS456	Info Storage and Retrieval [Information Storage and Retrieval]
Credit	3 UG hours [Section AU]; 4 GR hours [Section AG]
Description	[Undergrads enroll in section AU; Graduate students in Section AG] Introduces problems of document representation, information need specification, and query processing. Describes the theories, models, and current research aimed at solving those problems. Primary focus is on bibliographic text and multimedia records.
Skill	basic Unix; basic HTML
Prerequisites	Junior, senior, graduate student
LIS458	Instruction and Assistance Sys [Instruction and Assistance Systems]
Credit	3 UG hours [Section AU]; 2 or 4 GR hours [Section AG]
Description	Provides an introduction to instruction and assistance methods used in a variety of information systems including libraries, archives, museums, and electronic environments. Includes an overview of theoretical and applied research and discusses relevant issues and concepts. Students will have an opportunity to design and present an instruction or assistance program.
Prerequisites	Junior, senior, graduate student
LIS465	User Interface Design [Same as CS 465--CS is controlling dept.]
Credit	3 UG hours [Section M3]; 3 or 4 GR hours [Section M4]
Description	[Same as CS 465--Computer Science is controlling dept.] A project-focused course that covers fundamental principles of user interface design, implementation, and evaluation. Small teams work on a semester-long project that includes: analysis of the problem domain, user skills, and tasks; iterative prototyping of interfaces to address user needs; conducting several forms of evaluation such as cognitive walkthroughs and usability tests; implementation of the final prototype. Non-technical majors may enroll in the course as non-programmers who participate in all aspects of the projects with the possible exception of implementation.
Prerequisites	CS 225 or 400; or consent of instructor. Senior or graduate student standing.
LIS482	Writing Technologies [Same as ENGL 482 -- English is controlling dept.]
Credit	3 UG hours [Section 1U]; 4 GR hours [Section 1G]
Description	[Same as ENGL 482--English is the controlling dept.] Examines the relationship of computer technology to the larger field of writing studies. Topics include a historical overview of computers and other writing technologies; current instructional practices and their relation to various writing theories; research on word processing, computer-mediated communication, and hypermedia; and the computer as a research tool.
Skill	Students must have a basic knowledge of word processing.
Prerequisites	Junior, senior or graduate student
LIS490	Advanced Topics Info Studies [Advanced Special Topics in Information Studies]
Credit	2 to 4 UG or GR hours -- see each topic section for credit information. May be repeated as topics vary.
Description	Directed and supervised investigation of selected topics in information studies that may include among others the social, political, and historical contexts of information creation and dissemination; computers and culture; information policy; community information systems; production, retrieval and evaluation of knowledge; computer-mediated communication. See individual sections for descriptions of each topic.
Prerequisites	Junior or senior standing and LIS 201 or LIS 202, or consent of instructor.
LIS490AC	African American Youth Lit [African American Youth Literature]
Credit	3 UG hours; 4 GR hours
Description	An historically informed survey of literature written for and about African American children and young adults from the early twentieth century-when racist caricatures were commonplace in mainstream children's literature-to the present, when African American authors and illustrators are winning major prizes. Investigation of the evolving historical contexts in which this literature has been produced and evaluated will provide a foundation for analyzing the strategies that have been used to help young readers maintain a positive self-image in the face of what one critic described (as late as 1965) as "the all-white world of children's books." Participants will gain a better understanding of the traditions and innovations that characterize African American youth literature and issues related to evaluation of this literature for use in public and school libraries.
Prerequisites	Junior, senior or graduate student
LIS490AR	Design Universally Acc WWW Res [Designing Universally Accessible WWW Resources]
Credit	3 UG hours [Section ARU]; 4 GR hours [Section ARG]
Description	[Undergrads enroll in 490 ARU; Graduate students in 490 ARG] Introduction to the concepts of designing web based materials to be more accessible to people with disabilities. Participants need to have experience in developing and publishing web materials. Students will learn how web browsing is different for people with disabilities and how to use W3C standards to create materials that are not only more accessible to people with disabilities, but make it easier for all people to access web materials. Students will test major authoring tool support for acessible design and review the capabilities of various evaluation and repair tools to help determine the accessibility problems of current web resources and to improve their accessibility. Students will work in small groups to evaluate and improve the accessibility of an existing web-based course at Illinois.
Skill	Web design skills and experience (i.e., created and maintained web pages)
Prerequisites	Junior, senior or graduate student.
LIS490BA	Book Arts Seminar
Credit	3 UG hours [Section BAU]; 4 GR hours [Section BAG]
Description	Advanced study of the history, literature, aesthetics, and criticism of the Book Arts. This course will offer advanced study of the role of artists' book in contemporary art. It will offer students a new perspective on this diverse medium, incorporating the history of book production and its impact on societies and the cultural dissemination of information. Through readings and field trips, students will develop a critical awareness of the book as an art form. [Elective course for Graduate Certificate in Special Collections]
Prerequisites	Junior, senior or graduate student.
LIS490CE	Community Engagement [on-campus section] [Same as 490 CEL (LEEP) and 490 CEO (off-site) sections]
Credit	4 UG hours; 4 GR hours
Description	Community engagement refers to the multiple ways that information professionals in libraries and other settings learn about, collaborate with, and provide service and outreach to community members. Typical activities include performing community needs assessments, involving local residents in museum decision-making, offering computer training for seniors at local community centers, partnering with schools on literacy programs, bookmobiles, teen reading clubs, citizen science, using library facilities for local issue forums and art exhibits, homework help programs, and collecting and archiving local history data. This course provides an introduction to, and overview of, community engagement theory and practice. A significant portion of coursework will take the form of service learning or community-based research via approved projects that match students' interests. Course participants will have the opportunity to join ongoing community engagement projects that are led by GSLIS faculty and community partners.
Prerequisites	Junior, senior or graduate student standing. Students can enroll in only one section of 490CE/CEL/CEO.
LIS490CIC	Community Informatics Corps [On-campus section. SAME AS 490CIO (off-campus section)]
Credit	2 UG or GR hours
Description	Provides structured practical engagement experiences in community informatics (CI), the field devoted to understanding how communities create and apply knowledge, and use information and communication technologies (such as in art and culture, health, environmental protection, and education). Classroom activities accompanied by 80 hrs of practical engagement in approved setting(s) that match students' schedules and interests. May continue work begun in other classes (e.g., LIS 451) and volunteer activities, or gain experience in new settings (e.g., provide user support and training, etc. at the community technology centers in churches, afterschool programs, community centers). Practical engagement settings include libraries along with other community organizations and may include community needs assessment/evaluation; create/manage software and websites; set up libraries in small non-profits; develop information and referral services; help run a community network (Prairienet); create digital cultural archives; tutor in a school library; storytelling at sites in C-U and its rural areas, Chicago, East St. Louis.
Prerequisites	Junior, senior or graduate student standing. Students can not enroll in both sections--must choose either 490CIC or 490CIO.
LIS490CR	CI Research Strategies [Community Informatics Research Strategies]
Credit	2 UG and GR hours
Description	This course will read, use, and develop community informatics theory and method by working as a research team to carry out a compact study in two weeks time. The research may be a case study of a nearby community technology facility or a new analysis of an existing dataset.
Prerequisites	Undergraduates must have permission of instructor to enroll.
LIS490CW	China World Communication
Credit	3 UG hours [Section CWU]; 4 GR hours [Section CWG]
Description	This course explores the ongoing restructuring of Chinese and world communications and the interlocks between the two. We will study and look for connections between three unfolding histories: the development of digital technologies and the emergence of new network systems and applications; changing institutional policies for networks and networked services; and shifting relations between China?s political economy and the global market system. Scrutiny will be given especially to new media and telecommunications infrastructures, power dynamics, and social and political conflict. A course project will be to identify and evaluate relevant bibliographic resources. A research paper (topic to be approved by instructor) is required.
Prerequisites	Junior, senior or graduate student
LIS490DB	Introduction to Databases
Credit	4 UG and GR hours
Description	The course provides students with both theoretical and practical training in good database design. By the end of the course students will create a conceptual data model using entity-relationship diagrams, understand the importance of referential integrity and how to enforce data integrity constraints when creating a database. Students will be proficient in writing basic queries in the structured query language (SQL) and have a general understanding of relational database theory including normalization.
Prerequisites	Junior, senior or graduate student
LIS490DD	The Digital Divide [The Digital Divide: Policy, Research, and Community Empowerment]
Credit	3 UG hours [Section DDU]; 2 or 4 GR hours [Section DDG]
Description	This course combines an intensive reading of texts with hands on field work in building bridges across the digital divide. Students will work in teams by partnering with an assigned community organization to develop and implement a plan to informaticize that organization. Part of this course will involve a lecture series by leading information technology professionals regarding community uses of information technology and related issues involving the digital divide.
Prerequisites	Junior, senior or graduate student
LIS490GI	Geographic Information Systems
Credit	3 UG hours [Section GIU]; 4 GR hours [Section GIG]
Description	Focuses on analytical methods using GIS (Geographic Information Systems) and will apply these methods to community-based issues, local and national government, and civil society, as well as participatory methods using GIS. A hands-on course with weekly labs and service learning projects.
Prerequisites	Junior, senior or graduate student
LIS490GL	Games, Information & Learning
Credit	3 UG hours [Section GLU]; 4 GR hours [Section GLG]
Description	Electronic games (Egames) impact entertainment, education, commerce, design, scientific innovation, and policy, globally. This course analyzes how games work as arenas for information, learning, social interaction, innovation, and expression. Major topics include 1) game technologies and infrastructure; 2) game-oriented engagement processes and participation; 3) information structuring and presentation; 4) games as communities and "third spaces"; 5) learning and games; 6) issues of ethics, privacy, trust, credibility, social control. Course format includes readings, lectures, group projects, and visitors. The intended audience is information professionals, designers, librarians, and educators who want to explore how Egames can help structure learning and information practices. For more information, see http://www.isrl.uiuc.edu/~gasser/courses/gil/gil-long.html
Prerequisites	Junior or senior standing. The 201 or 202 prerequisite is waived for this course.
LIS490HH	Hip Hop as Community Informatics [I POWERED-Hip Hop as Community Informatics]
Credit	3 UG hours; 4 GR hours
Description	The purpose of this course is to examine how the production and cultural reproduction of information through a variety of formats i.e. music, fashion, print, graphic art etc... created Hip Hop. Additionally, the course will also discover how various elements of Hip Hop culture can be used to inspire young people to document and archive the history of spaces and places in urban communities as a method of cultural sustainability.
Prerequisites	Junior, senior or graduate student
LIS490IE	Information Ethics
Credit	3 UG hours [Section IEU]; 4 GR hours [Section IEG]
Description	This course is a basic grounding in information ethics as appropriate for practicing information professionals. It will cover underlying philosophies of information ethics, flesh out the basics of ethical decision-making, explore relevant codes of ethics, and will actively engage a variety of ethical problems.
Prerequisites	Junior, senior or graduate student
LIS490IT	Entrepreneurial IT Design
Credit	3 UG hours [Section ITU]; 4 GR hours [Section ITG]
Description	Introduces students to a range of rapid prototyping techniques and methods to analyze needs, opportunities and design spaces. Students will work in teams to develop ideas for novel computational devices or applications to meet identified needs. Covers the interlinked entrepreneurial skills of identifying an unmet need, exploiting technological opportunities, exploring a design space to refine an idea, and communicating a design vision through demonstrations with prototypes and proofs of concept. This enables developers to show how their envisaged working interactive technology will be used productively in a particular real-life context. Communicating the vision of computational devices is a challenge because dynamic use in context is hard for people other than the device's developers to imagine. The ability to produce convincing, clear, powerful demonstrations even at the early stages of a project is a highly valuable entrepreneurial skill, and also highly applicable within an organization. For more information please visit https://apps.lis.illinois.edu/wiki/display/fa08lis490it/Home
Prerequisites	Junior, senior or graduate student standing.
LIS490KN	Visualiz Navigat Knowl Nets [Visualizing and Navigating Knowledge Networks]
Credit	3 UG hours [Section KNU]; 4 GR hours [Section KNG]
Description	Examines the state of the art in visualizing and navigating a variety of networks, including social and knowledge networks. Major topics include representation, visualization, navigation and utilization of knowledge networks. Students will read about relevant models and approaches from network analysis, human computer interaction and computer graphics. Interdisciplinary student design teams will work on projects involving specific networks and problems, and learn and evaluate existing visualization environments including headmounted displays, large 2D (wall) displays, and 3D CAVE. The teams will study the available computational tools and software, and prototype new tools for visualization and knowledge navigation. Additional work will be required of graduate students.
Prerequisites	Permission of instructor. Eligible students should demonstrate familiarity with 1+ of: network analysis, programming methodologies, graphic design, human perception and cognition, statistics, computer vision, computer speech analysis, computer graphics, and human computer interaction.
LIS490MU	Museum Informatics
Credit	3 UG hours [Section MUU]; 4 GR hours [Section MUG]
Description	Covers information organization and access in museums, exploring the relationship between information technology and modern museum environments. Students learn about classification systems for museums, computer systems for information storage and retrieval, universal access to shared electronic data, copyright in the digital world, virtual museums, interactive exhibits, and information management in museums, through lectures, computer-based activities, and interactive discussions. The final project involves design of an electronic portfolio of virtual museum resources. Students are encouraged to approach class topics from their individual backgrounds in the humanities, sciences, or social sciences. There will be additional assignments required of graduate students.
Prerequisites	Junior, senior or graduate student standing.
LIS490NC	Social Networks
Credit	3 UG hours [Section NCU]; 4 GR hours [Section NCG]
Description	[Meets with SPCM 496 NC] Explores the use of social network analysis to understand the growing connectivity and complexity in the world around us on different scales--ranging from small groups to the WWW. Examines how we create social, economic and technological networks and how these networks enable and constrain our behavior. Discusses how social networks concepts, theories, and visual-analytic methods are being used to design and understand a wide range of phenomena such as social networking sites (e.g., Facebook, MySpace), recommender systems (e.g., Amazon, NetFlix, Pandora), trust and reputation systems (e.g., eBay, Epinions, Slashdot), search engines ( e.g., Google, Technorati), P2P file-sharing (e.g., BitTorrent; Joost), user-generated content (e.g., Flickr, Wikipedia, Yelp), social bookmarking (e.g., del.icio.us, digg, reddit) and virtual worlds ( e.g., Second Life World of Warcraft). As part of assignments, students will have the choice to design, develop, or evaluate tools to enable social networks in a wide range of contexts such as activism, business, engineering, entertainment, healthcare, politics, and other societal issues.
Prerequisites	Junior, senior, graduate student. No formal pre-requisites but will be most beneficial to students who have had an introductory statistics course. It will be of particular interest to students interested in communication, information science, computer science and business.
LIS490NT	Evolution of the Net [: Info Infrastructure from the Telephone Network to the Global Mind]
Credit	3 UG hours [Section NTU]; 4 GR hours [Section NTG]
Description	[Undergrads enroll in 490 NTU; graduate students in 490 NTG] Discusses the technologies of the Net: the global information infrastructure. "infra" means "internal" and "structure" means "support". Information infrastructure is the underlying protocols that enable users worldwide to interact with information. Throughout history, improved technologies have increasingly supported deeper structures, to enable user interaction to become closer to cyberspace visions of "being one with all the world's knowledge". The course will discuss in equal parts: the past, the present, the near future, and the far future. Explanations of the workings of underlying technology are given at length, but no technology prerequisites are assumed for the lectures. Students will be required to write essays on both the past and the future, to better appreciate how the lessons of the past guide the realities of the future. Additional work will be required of graduate students.
Prerequisites	Junior, senior. MS students may be allowed to enroll on a space available basis--contact the instructor for permission.
LIS490SE	Search Engines & Inf Retrv Sys [Search Engines and Information Retrieval Systems]
Credit	3 UG hours [Section SEU]; 4 GR hours [Section SEG]
Description	This introductory course examines how search engines and other information retrieval systems are put together. By understanding what makes these fascinating systems "tick," students will be in a position to make better use of these important tools. This course will look at present and future search engines, both on and off the Internet, designed to retrieve a wide range of information types, including text, images, sound, and music.
Prerequisites	Junior, senior or graduate student.
LIS490SH	Contemporary Culture & Info [Contemporary Culture and Information Industry]
Credit	3 UG hours [Section SHU]; 4 GR hours [Section SHG]
Description	Theoretical approaches to the study of culture and information are used to engage with an extended period in US history. The course examines the rise of the market in cultural and information provision, and situates selected instances of market development within wider processes of social historical development.
Prerequisites	Junior or senior standing. Graduate students must get permission of instructor to enroll.
LIS490TC	Soc History US Telecomm [Social History of U.S. Telecommunications]
Credit	3 UG hours [Section TCU]; 4 GR hours [Section TCG]
Description	[Undergrads enroll in Section TCU; Graduate students in Section TCG] This course seeks to provide a broad historical account of a vital producer and consumer service: telecommunications. Its focus is on changing industry structures and public policies, set within the larger historical movement of American society. Experiences of private carrier monopoly, inter-carrier competition, and regulated monopoly are examined; the impact of emergent and sometimes destabilizing technologies, from radio to computer networking, is analyzed; and successive conflicts over the social purpose of telecommunications are scrutinized.
Prerequisites	Junior, senior or Master's student.
LIS490UM	Understanding Multimedia Info [Understanding Multimedia Information: Concepts and Practices]
Credit	3 UG hours [Section UMU]; 4 GR hours [Section UMG]
Description	This course is designed for those with an interest exploiting multimedia information in web and electronic publishing projects. Students will be introduced to the theory behind, and the tools associated with, a wide variety of audio (e.g., MP3, WAV, WM9, RealAudio), graphic (JPEG, GIF, PNG, etc.), music (MIDI, GUIDO, etc.) and text information formats (e.g., PS, PDF, etc.). After taking this course students should be empowered to make intelligent choices in selecting appropriate mulitmedia formats to match particular design requirements. Enrollment is limited to 25 students. Class will be a mix of lectures, demos and hands-on work. Students should have access to a personal computer upon which they can experiment on their own with downloaded multimedia software tools.
Prerequisites	Junior, senior or graduate student.
LIS490W2A	Web Structures & Info Arch [Web Structures and Information Architecture]
Credit	3 UG hours [Section W2U]; 4 GR hours [Section W2G].
Description	This course builds on LIS 390 W1A (or W1B) to explore how Web structures have expanded from simple hypertexts and the informational implications of different Web-enabled activities. Topics covered include: Internet privacy, security/hacking, interactivity on Web pages, Web e-commerce, Web advertising and Web server logs. The course also expands on the issues of Web design introduced in W1A (or W1B). This course will include an introduction to scripting languages (no previous programming experience is assumed).
Prerequisites	LIS 390W1A or LIS 590LW, or consent of instructor.
LIS490WT	Wireless Tech and Society [Wireless Technology and Society]
Credit	3 UG hours [Section WTU]; 4 GR hours [Section WTG]
Description	Focuses on the development of wireless technologies and their uses in society and business. These technologies are rapidly emerging as central to information and communication processes. The course aims at making students aware of these technologies and the novel forms of socio-technical and economic life they make possible. The course looks at new forms of social relations, mobile commercial activities (M-commerce) and organizational structures co-emerging with wireless technologies. Exploration includes critical and ethical perspectives addressing the blurring of private and public spaces and novel forms of convenience and efficiency made possible by these technologies. Throughout, the course explores the meshing of wireless with other technologies, such as the Internet, databases, global positioning systems.
Prerequisites	Junior, senior or graduate student
LIS491	Literacy in the Info Age [Literacy in the Information Age]
Credit	3 UG hours [Section AU]; 4 GR hours [Section AG]
Description	[Same as MS 491] [Undergrads enroll in Section AU; Graduate students in Section AG]. A capstone course in the Information Technology Studies minor that draws on students' experience throughout their undergraduate program to discuss a series of themes such as community, the political sphere, and education which have been impacted by the new information technologies.
Skill	basic HTML
Prerequisites	LIS 201 or LIS 202, or consent of instructor. Registration priority: 1) graduating seniors in the ITS minor; 2) other seniors in the ITS minor; 3) juniors in the ITS minor; 4) graduate students; 5) other juniors and seniors who have the prerequisite, but are not ITS minors.

500-Level Courses
LIS501	Info Org and Access [Information Organization and Access]
Credit	4 GR hours
Description	Emphasizes information organization and access in settings and systems of different kinds. Traces the information transfer process from the generation of knowledge through its storage and use in both print and non-print formats. Consideration will be given to the creation of information systems: the principles and practice of selection and preservation, methods of organizing information for retrieval and display, the operation of organizations that provide information services, and the information service needs of various user communities. Required M.S. degree core course.
Prerequisites	LIS degree student
LIS502	Libraries Info and Society [Libraries, Information and Society]
Credit	2 or 4 GR hours
Description	Explores major issues in the library and information science professions as they involve their communities of users and sponsors. Analyzes specific situations that reflect the professional agenda of these fields, including intellectual freedom, community service, professional ethics, social responsibilities, intellectual property, literacy, historical and international models, the socio-cultural role of libraries and information agencies and professionalism in general, focusing in particular on the interrelationships among these issues. Required M.S. degree core course.
Prerequisites	LIS degree student
LIS503	Use and Users of Info [Use and Users of Information]
Credit	4 GR hours
Description	Explores information needs and uses at a general level, addressing formal and informal information channels, barriers to information, issues of value, and impacts of technology. Examines information seeking practices of particular communities and within various environments, introducing recent approaches to user-centered system design and digital library development. Provides an overview of methods that can be used to study information needs, information seeking behavior and related phenomena.
Prerequisites	LIS 501
LIS504	Reference and Info Services [Reference and Information Services]
Credit	4 GR hours
Description	Explores reference and information services in a variety of settings, introduces widely used print and online sources, and develops question negotiation skills and search strategies.
Prerequisites
LIS505	Adm Mgt of Libs Info Centers [Administration & Management of Libraries and Information Centers]
Credit	4 GR hours
Description	Designed to explore the principles that govern how organizations and institutions work, this course provides a foundation for and introduction to the theories, practices and procedures involved in the management and administration of libraries and information centers.
Prerequisites
LIS506	Youth Services Librarianship
Credit	4 GR hours
Description	Theory and techniques in planning, implementing and evaluating library programs/services for youth (age 0-18) in public and school libraries/media centers; the knowledge base, skills, and competencies needed by the library media professional in the development of all aspects of young people's reading/viewing/listening and information literacy skills.
Prerequisites
LIS507	Cataloging and Classif I [Cataloging and Classification I]
Credit	4 GR hours
Description	Theory and application of basic principles and concepts of descriptive and subject cataloging; emphasis on interpreting catalog entries and making a catalog responsive to the needs of users; provides beginning-level experience with choice of entries, construction of headings, description of monographs (and, to a lesser extent, of serial publications and nonprint media), filing codes, Dewey and Library of Congress classification systems, and Library of Congress subject headings.
Prerequisites
LIS510	Adult Public Services
Credit	4 GR hours
Description	The literature, history, and problems of providing library service to the general adult user; investigation of user characteristics and needs, and the effectiveness of various types of adult services.
Prerequisites
LIS511	Bibliography
Credit	2 or 4 GR hours
Description	Covers enumerative bibliography, the practices of compiling lists; analytical bibliography, the design, production, and handling of books as physical objects; and historical bibliography, the history of books and other library materials, from the invention of printing to the present. [Elective course for Graduate Certificate in Special Collections]
Prerequisites	Consent of instructor
LIS512	History of Libraries [Same as Comm 512]
Credit	2 or 4 GR hours
Description	[Same as Comm 512] The origins, development, and evolution of libraries and related institutions, from antiquity to the twentieth century, as a reflection of literacy, recognition of archival responsibility, humanistic achievement, scientific information needs, and service to society. [Elective course for Graduate Certificate in Special Collections]
Prerequisites
LIS514	History of Children's Lit [History of Children's Literature]
Credit	2 or 4 GR hours
Description	Interpretation of children's literature from the earliest times, including the impact of changing social and cultural patterns on books for children; attention to early printers and publishers of children's books and to magazines for children. [Elective course for Graduate Certificate in Special Collections]
Prerequisites
LIS522	Info Sources and Svcs Sciences [Information Sources and Services in the Sciences]
Credit	2 or 4 GR hours
Description	Overview of the information needs and practices of researchers, practitioners, and the general public. Detailed consideration of disciplinary literatures and print and electronic reference materials. Advanced training in addressing reference questions and research problems in the sciences.
Prerequisites	LIS 504
LIS523	Info Sources and Svcs Soc Sci [Information Sources and Services in the Social Sciences]
Credit	2 or 4 GR hours
Description	Overview of the information needs and practices of researchers, practitioners, and the general public. Detailed consideration of disciplinary literatures and print and electronic reference materials. Advanced training in addressing reference questions and research problems in the social sciences.
Prerequisites	LIS 504
LIS524	Info Sources and Svcs Arts Hum [Information Sources and Services in the Arts and Humanities]
Credit	2 or 4 GR hours
Description	Overview of the information needs and practices of researchers, practitioners, and the general public. Detailed consideration of disciplinary literatures and print and electronic reference materials. Advanced training in addressing reference questions and research problems in the arts and humanities.
Prerequisites	LIS 504
LIS525	Government Information
Credit	4 GR hours
Description	Aims to acquaint students with government publications, their variety, interest, value, acquisition, and bibliographic control, and to develop proficiency in their reference and research use; considers publications of all types and all governments (local, national, international) with special emphasis on U.S. state, and federal governments and on the United Nations and its related specialized agencies.
Prerequisites	LIS 504, or consent of instructor
LIS526	Searching Online Info Systems [Searching Online Information Systems]
Credit	2 or 4 GR hours
Description	Explores the world of online information retrieval (IR) systems, with particular emphasis on conceptual understanding of basic system structures and searching strategies needed to become an effective online searcher. Students will explore three key commercial online systems (Dialog, LexisNexis, Factiva), developing professional level searching skills transferrable to other IR systems. Other topics discussed include database selection and evaluation, end-user interface issues, and the role of information professionals in the online world.
Prerequisites	LIS 504, or consent of instructor.
LIS530	Info Needs of Part[icular] Communities [see sections for topics]
Credit	2 or 4 GR hours
Description	Special topics sections for in-depth study of the characteristics and information needs of specialist users of libraries; goals and objectives, policies, and services; reference and bibliographical aids; and effective services that satisfy these special needs. See individual topics sections for that section's course description.
Prerequisites	LIS 504, or consent of instructor.
LIS530A	Music Libnship & Bibliography [Music Librarianship & Bibliography]
Credit	2 or 4 GR hours
Description	Explores music librarianship and music bibliography. Identifies the different types of music library and the professional organizations that represent them; examines why music materials often demand special treatment in a library, for example in acquisition, cataloging and classification, circulation and conservation; introduces basic music reference tools; surveys the history of music printing and bibliography; examines copyright legislation as it affects the music library; identifies different types of music library patron, and assesses those patrons' varied demands on the music library; introduces the professional literature of music librarianship, and assesses what skills and training are needed by current and future music library professionals; examines the role of digitization and other technologies in the future dissemination of music materials. [Elective course for Graduate Certificate in Special Collections]
Prerequisites
LIS530B	Health Sci Info Svcs & Res [Health Sciences Information Services and Resources]
Credit	4 GR hours
Description	Provides a general introduction to information services and sources which serve the health-related information needs of health care professionals and the lay public. Provides exposure to the tools and services most often encountered in delivery of health-related information, issues and trends in health science library practice, ethical issues in provision of health-related information, and specialized programs and services for all health information consumers.
Prerequisites
LIS530C	REEES Bibliog Research Methods [Russian, East European & Eurasian Bibliography & Research]
Credit	4 GR hours
Description	[Formerly called Slavic Bibliography] This course is designed to provide graduate students in both area and information studies with a comprehensive introduction to research techniques in the Russian & East European field. Depending on enrollment, course content is designed to cover a broad range of interests--for example, Central Asia as well as Russia--while demonstrating that many tools serve more than one specialty. The course will also discuss the resources and skills required for digital scholarship, as well as traditional approaches. It will draw on specialists for various sessions, and will include readings, assignments and a final paper.
Prerequisites
LIS530E	Business Information
Credit	4 GR hours
Description	A study of the literature, information sources and reference aids in the area of business. Introduces the student to the U.S. business information environment. Examines the impact of the national economy and international trade on U.S. industries and companies and the nature of various business functions within a company in an attempt to understand what business information is needed and how it may be used by individuals within an organization. Provides a general mapping of the variety of external information sources.
Prerequisites
LIS530G	Law (Legal Resources)
Credit	2 or 4 GR hours
Description	Introduces legal sources used in a variety of library settings, covering both U.S. and state legal resources. Discusses standard print legal sources such as reporters, digests, statutes, legal encyclopedias, and looseleaf services. Explores the use of legal online services such as LEXIS and WESTLAW through extensive hands-on assignments. Analyzes reference and collection development issues related to legal sources.
Prerequisites
LIS530M	Bibliography of Africa
Credit	2 or 4 GR hours
Description	Covers the available universe of African studies materials in all formats and how to find them. The class begins with evaluating general reference sources and continues with sources by discipline for the study of the continent of Africa. Covers research strategies for the humanities and social sciences. Students will complete a major annotated bibliography on a topic of their choice.
Prerequisites	LIS 504 prerequisite is WAIVED for this section.
LIS544	Library Cooperation & Networks
Credit	4 GR hours
Description	Development of library systems, with special reference to public libraries as a norm for the development of library services; detailed treatment of library standards, the growth and development of county and regional libraries, and the role of the state library and of federal legislation.
Prerequisites	LIS 505, or consent of instructor.
LIS548	Library Buildings
Credit	2 or 4 GR hours
Description	Studies the library's physical plant in the light of changing concepts and patterns of library service; analyzes present-day library buildings (both new and remodeled) and their comparison with each other as well as with buildings of the past; examines the interrelationship of staff, collections, users, and physical plant; discussion supplemented by visits to new libraries and conference with their staffs. A two-day field trip is required. An additional $55 non-waivable fee is assessed to the student's tuition & fees bill, plus the student will be responsible for one night's hotel stay.
Prerequisites	LIS student
LIS549	Economics of Info [Economics of Information]
Credit	4 GR hours
Description	The various definitions of information in economic and social terms as discussed in library and information science as well as other literatures are related to government public policies and social policies. Issues such as information as a commodity and as a public good are explored. The impact of the economics of information and related public policies on libraries and information centers is discussed from a national and international perspective.
Prerequisites
LIS556	Implement Info Stor and Retr [Implementation of Information Retrieval Systems]
Credit	4 GR hours
Description	Types of systems for storage and retrieval of documents and references; their characteristics, evaluation, factors affecting their performance, and the mathematical models on which their operations are based are covered. Primary focus is on modern computer-based systems and their implementation. Students will use programming tools to build demonstration systems and install retrieval packages as part of a case study. [Elective course for the CAS in Digital Libraries concentration]
Prerequisites	LIS 452, or proficiency in any programming language and consent of instructor. Concurrent or prior registration in LIS 456.
LIS566	Arch Net Info Sys [Architecture of Network Information Systems]
Credit	4 GR hours
Description	The principles and practices of designing systems, particularly network information systems. Explores the protocols of the Net, the global information infrastructure. Critical evaluation of current Internet services plus evolution of research architectures towards future Net services, such as the Interspace. Historical survey of functionality of system component. Semester-long design and implementation project required. [Elective course for the CAS in Digital Libraries concentration]
Skill	Familiarity with commercial on-line information services assumed.
Prerequisites	CS 411 and LIS 456, or consent of instructor.
LIS577	Cataloging and Classif II [Cataloging and Classification II]
Credit	4 GR hours
Description	More complex problems in making and evaluating the changing, modern library catalog; practical and administrative problems in cataloging serial publications, analytics, ephemeral materials, and microforms; deals with various nonprint media, rare books and manuscripts, foreign language materials, and materials in special subject areas.
Prerequisites	LIS 507, or consent of instructor.
LIS578	Technical Services Functions
Credit	4 GR hours
Description	Seminar on the principles, problems, trends, and issues of acquiring, identifying, recording, and conserving/preserving materials in all types of libraries and information centers; includes the special problems of serials management; emphasizes service aspects.
Prerequisites
LIS581	Adm and Use Archival Materials [Administration and Use of Archival Materials]
Credit	4 GR hours
Description	Administration of archives and manuscript collections in various types of institutions. Theoretical principles and archival practices of appraisal, acquisition, accessioning, arrangement, description, preservation, and reference services. Topics will include: records management programs, collecting archives programs/special collections, legal and ethical issues, public programming and advocacy, and the impact of new information technologies for preservation and access. Lectures, discussion, internet demonstration, and field trips to the Special Collections Department and University Archives. [Elective course for Graduate Certificate in Special Collections]
Prerequisites
LIS582	Preserving Info Resources [Preserving Information Resources]
Credit	4 GR hours
Description	Covers the broad range of library preservation and conservation for book and nonbook materials relating these efforts to the total library environment; emphasizes how the preservation of collections affects collection management and development, technical services, access to materials and service to users. [Elective course for Graduate Certificate in Special Collections]
Prerequisites
LIS590	Advanced Problems in LIS
Credit	1 to 4 GR hours (3 GR hours for most WISE courses)
Description	A variety of newly developed and special courses on selected problems in the four curriculum domains of Design and Evaluation of Information Systems and Services, Information Organization and Analysis, Management and Consulting for Information Systems and Services, and Access--People and Collections. See individual sections for credit hours and course descriptions for each topic section.
Prerequisites	Individual topics sections may have a prerequisite.
LIS590AA	Archival Arrang and Descrip [Arrangement and Description for Archives and Museums]
Credit	2 GR hours
Description	The course will provide seminar discussions and a hands-on processing experience applying current theories and practices to solve the most common problems encountered by today's archivists and curators when arranging and describing historical records, papers, and artifacts. Discussions will focus predominantly on issues of intellectual and physical arrangement, description, and access. [Elective course for Graduate Certificate in Special Collections]
Prerequisites
LIS590AB	20th Cent Amer Best Sellers [20th Century American Best Sellers]
Credit	4 GR hours
Description	Students in this course will use bestselling 20th-century American literature as a means of understanding publishing, bibliography, and popular culture in 20th-century America. Students will read best-selling novels and analyze the causes and components of their popularity. Supplementary reading will focus on the publishing industry and the profession of authorship in America. Students will choose a title from the bestsellers database at the beginning of the semester, read that book, and contribute into the database five assignments: a bibliographic description of a first edition, a publishing history, a reception history, a biographical sketch, and a critical essay. In addition, class members will read a number of other titles, and these will be the subject of a midterm and a final exam. The bestsellers database is at: http://www3.isrl.uiuc.edu/~unsworth/courses/bestsellers/
Prerequisites
LIS590AC	Advanced Business Info Svcs [Advanced Business Information Services]
Credit	4 GR hours
Description	The role of business researchers has changed dramatically recently, and business researchers must be capable of not only identifying and locating relevant pieces of information but also synthesizing and communicating their research in various forms of deliverables to clients. Students will learn the basics and practices of competitive intelligence and knowledge management, as these are the fields where business researchers can translate their knowledge in information resources into solutions for complex business needs. Students will also learn and practice how to manage, design, and present research deliverables for widely diverse clients' needs. Furthermore, this course will discuss the importance and best practices of marketing research services to internal clients in an organization.
Prerequisites
LIS590AV	AV Mat'ls in Libs & Archives [Audiovisual Materials in Libraries and Archives]
Credit	4 GR hours
Description	As analog film, video, and audio materials and playback equipment become obsolete, libraries and archives with audiovisual (AV) materials in their collections face great challenges in preserving these materials. AV preservation and collection is costly, time-consuming, and requires specialized knowledge. This course will discuss the ways that librarians and archivists are responding to the challenges of audiovisual handling, preservation and collection. [Elective course for Graduate Certificate in Special Collections]
Prerequisites
LIS590BB	Bookbinding Hist, Princ, Pract [Bookbinding: History, Principles and Practice]
Credit	2 GR hours
Description	A hands-on exploration of multiple styles of bookbinding. Students will acquire fundamental technical knowledge by creating a variety of book structures using traditional tools and materials. An appreciation of the history of bindings will be gained through readings, visits to the Rare Book and Manuscript Library, the Conservation Lab and other field trips. [Elective course for Graduate Certificate in Special Collections]
Prerequisites
LIS590BC	Rare Book Cataloging
Credit	2 GR hours
Description	Introduction to the cataloging of books from the hand-press period using the standards outlined by Descriptive Cataloging of Rare Materials (Books). Exploration of concepts particular to rare books such as bibliographic format, edition, issue, and state. Application of controlled vocabularies/thesauri in a rare books context. Practical, hands-on experience cataloging rare books. [Elective course for Graduate Certificate in Special Collections]
Prerequisites	LIS 507 and LIS 577
LIS590BDI	Biodiversity Informatics
Credit	4 GR hours
Description	In this course we will examine the history and current state of biodiversity informatics with the objective of understanding the impact of this information on national and global policy. The taxonomic and functional diversity of organisms is an essential element of biodiversity that has been represented in14th century herbals to the Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Biodiversity informatics is the organization and study of information about biodiversity. In this course, we will examine how different constituencies gather and present this information to meet their own, sometimes conflicting objectives. The creation and dissemination of Biodiversity Information will be compared information practices in other fields such as genomics.
Prerequisites
LIS590BI	Intro to Bio Info Probs & Res [Introduction to Biological Informatics Problems and Resources
Credit	4 GR hours
Description	Explores the current landscape of biological informatics from the LIS perspective, including: types of problems studied by biological scientists, methods and instruments used, and which problems have informatics components; the range of data that exist; the uses of metadata, ontologies, and controlled vocabularies; data manipulation tools; application software; specific tasks and workflows; and data-driven science. Lecture, discussion, and hands-on components.
Prerequisites
LIS590BK	The Picture Book [The Picture Book: History, Art, and Visual Literacy]
Credit	2 GR hours
Description	The origins, development, current status, and future potential of the children's picture book will be explored in depth in this intensive seminar. Concentrating primarily on the genre's 100-year-long American trajectory, participants will consider the picture book as: 1) a late nineteenth-century Industrial Era artifact and art form; 2) as an element of America's cultural legacy from Britain; 3) a lively proving ground for the contrasting philosophies of childhood of twentieth-century American librarian-critics and progressive educators; 4) the art form of choice of an extraordinary international roster of contemporary authors and illustrators; 5) as a barometer of mainstream America's changing attitudes toward its minority cultures; 6) as a bellwether of new design styles and printing technologies. Students will hone their critical skills as they also consider the larger question of the role of traditional print culture in our brave new media world. Field trips are planned to the Newberry Library and Art Institute. [Elective course for Graduate Certificate in Special Collections]
Prerequisites	Permission of intructor
LIS590BP	Library Buildings and Society [Library Buildings and Society: From Past to Present]
Credit	4 GR hours
Description	A seminar based on the premise that library buildings, like all technologies, are shaped by society, including its needs, aspirations and ideologies. Will focus on the public library in the United States and Britain since the middle of the nineteenth century; however, other library types, periods and places will also be considered. Students will give an oral presentation on a case study of an individual library building or group of library buildings, which they will then write up as an assessed research report.
Prerequisites	Geared toward doctoral students; however, LIS CAS and MS students may also enroll.
LIS590BT	Special Topics in Book Arts
Credit	4 GR hours
Description	The traditional book is a combination of a physical form (the codex) and a text (literary/visual), but despite their intertwined histories, courses rarely focus on both book arts and book history. In this course students will explore these histories through both traditional (reading/viewing/listening) and nontraditional (book arts projects) means. Book arts projects will include (but are not limited to) the following (the accordion and variations; flexagon and hexagon; the vovelle; letterpress chapbooks; pop-up and other 3-dimensional constructions). Book history areas will include the rise of the codex, the history of illustration, 19th and 20th century children's literature, and other historical contexts relevant to that week's structure.
Prerequisites	Permission of instructor(s)
LIS590BTW	Serving Child in Schools/Comm
Credit	2 GR hours
Description	This community engagement course is designed for students interested in working with children (defined as birth through high school), careers serving children, and/or parenthood. The focus for this course is tutoring and mentoring children (elementary through middle school). A minimum of two hours per week of approved community service related to children is a requirement of the course. Placements will be at Booker T. Washington Elementary School in Champaign, with other sites added as needed by the instructors. Students must be able to tutor at least one of following times: Tu, Wed, Th from 3:00-5:00 p.m. Students available for more than two hours per week will be eligible to serve as room leaders in the BTW program. Class content focuses on relating to children, motivating and engaging children in learning, community institutions and agencies serving children, and social issues affecting the lives of American children today. This graduate course meets with undergrad sections CI 260 BTW and LIS 390 BTW. Students enrolled in the graduate section will have some assignments that vary from the undergraduate assignments.
Prerequisites	LIS or CI graduate students. Graduate students from other departments must have instructor's permission to enroll.
LIS590C1	Comm Informatics Res&Theory I [Community Informatics Research & Theory I]
Credit	2 or 4 GR hours
Description	Introduction to research and theory in community informatics. Explores contemporary research and theory in the use and application of information and communication technologies (ICTs) in geographically based communities. Topics may include: differences in access and use of ICTs by region and sectors of the population; use of ICTs for information dissemination and distributed knowledge; social capital and social networks; e-learning in the community; co-evolution of technology and use; cultural differences in attitudes to and use of technology; analysis, design and evaluation of community systems.
Prerequisites
LIS590C2	Comm Informatics Res&Theory II [Community Informatics Research & Theory II]
Credit	2 or 4 GR hours
Description	Advanced topics in research and theory in community informatics. See course description for LIS 590 C1.
Prerequisites
LIS590CD	Collection Development
Credit	4 GR hours
Description	Examines issues affecting the development and management of collections for academic, public, special and school libraries: the marketplace, publishing, legal issues, and budget allocation; document delivery; collaboration and cooperation.
Prerequisites
LIS590CD2	Current Topics in Coll Dev [Current Topics in Collection Development]
Credit	4 GR hours
Description	Explores current topics and problems related to the development and management of library collections. Addresses changes in scholarly communication and the production and distribution of information resources that impact planning and policy for building, budgeting, and providing access to collections. Examines issues related to developing libraries that blend traditional and digital materials, including economic challenges, cooperative strategies, and specific selection and evaluation practices. Provides an overview of current digital library projects and products. Conducted as a seminar, will revolve around discussion of readings and case material collected by students. Class sessions will cover contemporary problems and trends in the field. [Elective course for the CAS in Digital Libraries concentration]
Prerequisites
LIS590CE	Civic Entrepreneurship [Civic Entrepreneurship and Public Institutions]
Credit	2 or 4 GR hours
Description	This course will prepare students to be civic innovators in libraries, other public institutions and community-based organizations. This course content will come primarily from the civic and social entrepreneurship literature and case studies of innovative and entrepreneurial librarians who are redefining the role of libraries in relation to the civic and social life of their communities. Students will gain a new understanding of how entrepreneurial public institutions can build the civic capacity needed to develop new approaches to public problems. Students will contribute to a new stream of research on civic entrepreneurship within the professions of the library, nonprofit, community-based, and public institutions, and civic-minded individuals.
Prerequisites
LIS590CH	China Soc Sci&Hum Info Access [Information Access and Library Resources in the SS & Hum in China]
Credit	2 or 4 GR hours
Description	The course provides students with an opportunity to gain knowledge and understanding of social science and humanities information access protocols and library operational procedures in China. Cross-cultural awareness issues and challenges that result from the globalization of information will also be explored. Topics covered will include the history and philosophy of developing and maintaining library collections in the Social Sciences and Humanities in China, cooperation among libraries, digital libraries, professional training, leadership, management and facilities issues. A variety of case studies will be presented. Virtual library tours to key Chinese academic libraries will be presented by utilizing electronic access on the web. The team teaching course format involves the Freeman partner universities and other key players participating through guest lectures via Internet/teleconferencing. Students will conduct research projects on comparative studies among Chinese and American libraries.
Skill	Does not require Chinese language/culture class, although some background is preferred.
Prerequisites
LIS590CI	Community Info Systems [on-campus section, SAME AS 590 CIO (off-campus section)]
Credit	2 or 4 GR hours
Description	Introduces community information systems, with an emphasis on community networks. Provides an opportunity to develop knowledge about community information and current issues in its creation, transfer and use. In this course, "community information system" is used broadly to designate any set of technologies, services, and content whose purpose is to supply information, primarily of a local nature, to members of a given geographic community. [Elective course for the CAS in Digital Libraries concentration]
Prerequisites	Graduate student standing. Students can not enroll in more than one section of 590 CI, CIL and CIO.
LIS590CM	Change Management
Credit	4 GR hours
Description	Provides students with the opportunity to deepen the knowledge and skills they gained in LIS 505, and to acquire new tools for understanding and managing the impact of a rapidly changing environment. Emphasis will be on tools and skills that prepare students for the practical challenge of managing library and information management agencies through turbulent times of change that comes from within the organization and in response to a rapidly changing environment.
Prerequisites	LIS 505 or consent of instructor.
LIS590CMC	Computer Mediated Comm [Computer Mediated Communication]
Credit	4 GR hours
Description	This course traces issues and research in computer-mediated communication (CMC) that have accompanied the use and acceptance of new electronic media and their support through the Internet. Selecting from literature from the many fields that examine CMC (including computer science, communications, information science, management, psychology, and sociology), the course discusses the impact of CMC and its use on individuals, groups, communities, and society.
Prerequisites	Doctoral student; other graduate students may enroll with consent of instructor.
LIS590CO	Community Informatics
Credit	4 GR hours
Description	A survey of key concepts in an emerging field that studies how local, historical communities are using information and communications technologies. Covers key principles for work in the non-profit/public sector as people harness new technologies and media as individuals, students, families, community organizations, and so on. Overarching ideas prepare both professionals and researchers to understand and master this environment, whatever their technology background. Especially useful for those interested in public or community libraries, youth services, social work, education, and anyone interested in working with or studying underserved communities. [One of three required courses for the community informatics specialization.]
Prerequisites	Graduate student standing or permission of instructor. Students can not enroll in more than one section of 590 CO, COL and COO.
LIS590CP	Rare Books, Crime & Punishment
Credit	2 GR hours
Description	Explores crimes against culture in the form of rare books, maps, manuscripts and archival documents. From theft for profit to counterfeiting and vandalism, this class will focus on the myriad ways that unique and irreplaceable cultural heritage items are taken from us. The professional librarian and archivist communities, the general public and law enforcement have all treated these crimes very differently. This class will look at the ways that each of these communities reacts to these crimes and the reasons for these varied reactions. The class will also trace the evolution of the way these crimes have been viewed by various communities and what recent, positive changes might mean for the future. Aside from the historical and theoretical, this class will also discuss the practical: how these crimes are committed and by whom as well as how they can be (and are being) prevented. [Elective course for Graduate Certificate in Special Collections]
Prerequisites
LIS590CS	Classif Sys for Organiz Knowl [Classification Systems for the Organization of Knowledge]
Credit	2 or 4 GR hours
Description	Efficient and effective libraries and information services need structures for the organization of collections of knowledge and information items. Classification schemes, thesauri, and indexing systems attempt to provide such structures. The similarities and differences of various schemes, and their strengths and weaknesses for physical arrangement, knowledge organization, and computer-based information systems will be the prime foci of this seminar. Traditional and innovative schemes and systems will be examined and compared using normative principles, cognitive approaches to categorization, and disciplinary approaches as evaluative criteria.
Prerequisites
LIS590CTI	Competitive Intelligence
Credit	4 GR hours
Description	With the rapid proliferation of information communication technologies (ICTs), especially those that facilitate (positively and negatively) the transfer and management of information assets, an understanding of both competitive and strategic intelligence seems de rigeur. This course seeks to provide an overview of the principal theories of both competitive and strategic intelligence as well as methods for applying these theories to organizations that disseminate, manage, analyze, and/or archive information such as libraries, corporate information centers, dotcoms, and media or research firms. Furthermore, this course will introduce students to various organizational metaphors so that they can better understand which theories best apply to specific organizations and situations. Lastly, this course will teach students how to analyze an organization using the SWOT technique (strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats) in order to develop solutions that will make that organization more competitive, strategic, and less vulnerable in the short and near term.
Prerequisites
LIS590CW	Computer Supported Coop Work [Computer Supported Cooperative Work]
Credit	4 GR hours
Description	This doctoral level seminar will explore research issues related to collaborative computing. The focus will be mostly on issues of usability and acceptance of technologies into the work setting, and the design process to achieve that. This includes aspects of analysis, requirements specification, tailoring, usability, learnability, and their incorporation into applications development. Issues to be covered include: synchronous and asynchronous; remote and co-located collaboration; workplace use of systems including workflow systems; computer supported collaborative learning; home and leisure use of collaborative applications, barriers to technology adoption and how to overcome them; evaluation of collaborative systems; ethnographic techniques to inform systems analysis and design; interfaces to support human-human interaction; ubiquitous computing; mobile computing; lightweight interactions; roomware; very large and very small displays. [Elective course for the CAS in Digital Libraries concentration]
Prerequisites	Doctoral student; other graduate students may enroll with consent of instructor.
LIS590DA	Data Analysis for LIS Research
Credit	4 GR hours
Description	A survey of data analysis issues, tools, and techniques for research in Library and Information Science. Students will locate and work with a data set of their choice, review the literature of recommended analysis methods, and prepare an analysis appropriate to the data set they have chosen.
Prerequisites	Doctoral student; other graduate students may enroll with consent of instructor.
LIS590DC	Foundations of Data Curation
Credit	4 GR hours
Description	Data curation is the active and on-going management of data through its lifecycle of interest and usefulness to scholarship, science, and education; curation activities and policies enable data discovery and retrieval, maintain data quality and add value, and provide for re-use over time. This course provides an overview of a broad range of theoretical and practical problems in this emerging field. Examines issues related to appraisal and selection, long-lived data collections, research lifecycles, workflows, metadata, legal and intellectual property issues. [Required course for Data Curation Concentration]
Prerequisites	Students enrolled in the Data Curation specialization have registration priority
LIS590DE	Design Digit Mediated Info Svs [Design of Digitally Mediated Information Services]
Credit	4 GR hours
Description	Covers the design and analysis of services and intermediaries, specifically those that are automated and/or occur through digital channels. Includes the role of people in those services from both the designer and user perspectives. The course will help train leaders to design and manage digitally mediated information services in digital libraries. Students will use formal methods for technology evaluation and selection. This class is presented in a dual mode delivery format which simultaneously combines both on-campus and LEEP participants. Students in both groups are required to have administrative access to personal computing resources for the installation of, and experimentation with, design and modeling tools.
Prerequisites
LIS590DH	Digital Humanities
Credit	4 GR hours
Description	This course will examine the impact of information technology in a number of humanities disciplines, from history and literature to architecture and music. Readings will focus on the experience of particular disciplines in applying computational methods to research problems; the basic principles of humanities computing; specific applications and methods; and production, dissemination and archiving. Assignments will include brief writing assignments on the reading, a mid-term and final exam, and a semester-long in-depth review of an existing digital humanities project, with attention to knowledge representation as practiced in the project, intellectual property problems (and solutions), technical impediments to library collection and preservation, and other issues. [Elective course for the CAS in Digital Libraries concentration]
Prerequisites
LIS590DI	Digital Libs Research & Pract [Digital Libraries: Research and Practice]
Credit	4 GR hours
Description	A comprehensive examination of the history and state-of-the-art in digital library research and practice. Focuses upon the theoretical, technological, human factors and evaluative components of digital library research and practice. Course includes an intensive reading of the literature, review of existing technologies and proof-of-concepts implementation projects. This course This course is foundational for students wishing to engage seriously in the world of digital librarianship. Students should have access to a personal computer upon which they can experiment on their own with downloaded software tools. Students must be competent in basic computing including the installation and configuration of software packages. [Required core course for the CAS in Digital Libraries concentration]
Prerequisites	LIS 501 (or consent of instructor in extraordinary circumstances); Previous or concurrent enrollment in LIS 452 or proof of competency in programming.
LIS590DK	Distributed Knowledge
Credit	4 GR hours
Description	This course explores current thinking on what "knowledge" means, how we create new knowledge and transfer knowledge across disciplinary and organizational boundaries, and what social and technological processes support knowledge development for individuals and groups. The course will draw from research and methods from a number of disciplines, including social science, computer science, history, business, psychology, philosophy, and information science to explore the social processes that are involved in virtual collaborative work.
Prerequisites	Doctoral seminar -- but open to graduate students of all levels campuswide.
LIS590DM	Document Modeling
Credit	4 GR hours
Description	An introduction to information modeling for text and documents emphasizing fundamental modeling principles and XML-related information processing standards. Specific topics include document analysis, modeling problems and techniques, markup metalanguages and schemas (including XML Schema and RelaxNG, as well as XML DTDs), and markup semantics. Several important markup systems in a variety of domains will be examined in detail, including TEI (for humanities texts), the National Library of Medicine's journal DTD (for STM publishing), and DocBook and Dita (for technical documentation). We draw on perspectives from formal language theory, data structures, and knowledge representation, and explore the relationships between grammar-based document modeling and other data modeling disciplines, such as the relational model and the entity-relationship model. Students will undertake a hands-on document modeling project. [Elective course for the CAS in Digital Libraries concentration]
Prerequisites	LIS 501 or consent of instructor
LIS590DP	Document Processing
Credit	4 GR hours
Description	An introduction to XML-based document processing technologies and standards appropriate to electronic publishing. Leveraging descriptive encoding in standard formats (XML, SGML, HTML), industry-standard styling and transformation technologies (XSLT, CSS) can be deployed within layered systems to create and maintain formatted publications on and off the web (in HTML, PDF and print). Course participants will build such a system on an open-source platform. Issues to be covered include processing architectures (batch, server-and client-side processing); "vertical" publishing formats such as Docbook, DITA, NLM/NCBI, TEI; validation and quality-assurance methods and technologies; ancillary production pipelines (SVG graphics, RSS/Atom feeds, "galley proof" versions); document metadata and aggregation; and the role of proprietary publishing applications. [Elective course for the CAS in Digital Libraries concentration]
Prerequisites	LIS 452 or other programming experience
LIS590DRM	Doctoral Research Methods
Credit	4 GR hours
Description	This course offers a substantial introduction to research methods relevant to doctoral work in library and information science. This course progresses as a series of seminars, each presenting a different method of research. It prepares students to review studies of others that use such methods, and allows them to become more knowledgeable about methods appropriate to their dissertation research. Quantitative, qualitative, and multi-method approaches will be included in the course.
Prerequisites	LIS doctoral student in their second semester of study
LIS590DS	Implement of Distrib Info Sys [Implementation of Distributed Information Systems]
Credit	4 GR hours
Description	Examines the effective implementation of distributed information systems, focusing on retrieval and display of information from relational databases over the World Wide Web. Students will gain conceptual and practical knowledge of web-based data creation, organization, implementation, and retrieval, with a focus on library textual databases and solutions. [Elective course for the CAS in Digital Libraries concentration]
Prerequisites	LIS 452, LIS 454, or permission of the instructor. Programming skills (e.g., in 'C') are desirable but not required. Some UNIX expertise is required.
LIS590DT	Data Mining Applications
Credit	2 or 4 GR hours
Description	Data mining refers to the process of exploring large datasets with the goal of uncovering interesting patterns. This process usually involves a number of tasks such as data collection, pre-processing, and characterization; model fitting, selection, and evaluation; classification, clustering, and prediction. Although data mining has its roots in database management, it has grown into a discipline that focuses on algorithm design (to ensure computational feasibility) and statistical modeling (to separate the signal from the noise). As such, it draws heavily upon a variety of other disciplines including statistics, machine learning, operations research, and information retrieval. This course will cover the major data mining concepts, principles, and techniques that every information scientist should know about. Lectures will introduce and discuss the major approaches to data mining, computer lab sessions coupled with assignments will provide hands-on experience with these approaches, and term projects offer the opportunity to use data mining in a novel way. Mathematical detail will be left to the students who are so inclined.
Prerequisites
LIS590EB	Enum Desc Hist & Text Bibliog [Enumerative, Descriptive, Historical and Textual Bibliography]
Credit	2 GR hours
Description	Scholars, librarians, archivists, students, and others interested in the book as an artifact (for any purpose: buying or selling, cataloging, acquiring, deaccessioning, collecting, publishing, editing, or other tasks) must have a firm grasp of the four main branches of bibliography: Enumerative, Descriptive, Historical, and Textual. The course will elucidate what these related fields focus on, showing their interrelationships, and preparing practitioners of all kinds to speak authoritatively about books as bearers of texts and as artifacts. The course looks at such things as how to compile and focus, design and present an enumerative bibliography; how to describe books (especially those from the hand-press period--up through about 1800) for cataloging, buying, selling, and doing scholarly research; the book as a historical artifact, with respect to its creation, dissemination, and the effect it had on the culture (along with the effect the culture had on the world of publishing); the development of authoritative, accurately and definitively edited texts; and more. [Elective course for Graduate Certificate in Special Collections]
Prerequisites
LIS590ED	Intl Perspectives on LIS Educ [International Perspectives on LIS Education]
Credit	4 GR hours
Description	This seminar focuses on current issues in Library and Information Science education, ranging from professional education of librarians to alternative career paths for information professionals. A survey of the development and history of education of information professionals throughout the world is presented as background. Continuing education issues are also explored. Students will review the literature and present a research based paper on a topic relating to LIS Education from an international perspective.
Prerequisites	doctoral student; other graduate students may enroll with consent of instructor
LIS590EL	E-Learning [E-Learning: Social and Technical Issues in E-learning Research and Practice]
Credit	4 GR hours
Description	This seminar addresses social, technical, administrative, and pedagogical aspects of online education and learning. The course will primarily address e-learning in higher education, and but will also consider e-learning in non-educational settings. We will discuss technical and social challenges and new practices associated with teaching and learning online, as well as theoretical perspectives on e-learning, methods of researching e-learning, and research progress and agendas. Attention will be given to examining the online environment as a whole, including how computer-mediated communication affects interaction between students and instructors, and among instructors; how learning communities are built and sustained online; how students learn how to learn online; and social and technical aspects of sustaining online programs. [Elective course for the CAS in Digital Libraries concentration]
Prerequisites
LIS590EP	Electr Pub: Techs & Practices [Electronic Publishing: Technologies and Practices]
Credit	4 GR hours
Description	This course offers an introduction to electronic publishing with a focus on the practices, standards, and issues affecting digital librarians and information managers working in the academic sphere. After an introduction to basic concepts and issues, the course presents a set of essential technical concepts and approaches, including metadata standards, XML encoding languages and schema design, and publication tools. We will also examine the social and institutional issues that are shaping electronic publishing practices, including preservation and data curation, open access, and accessibility. Guest lectures and case studies in the final segment of the course provide an opportunity to look at real-world implementations and practical tradeoffs. Assignments are organized around a student-designed electronic publishing project in which students combine hands-on practice with analysis. No technical knowledge is assumed but students having no prior exposure to XML publishing should be prepared for a fairly swift initial immersion. [Elective course for the CAS in Digital Libraries concentration]
Prerequisites
LIS590ER	Electronic Records Management
Credit	4 GR hours
Description	This course addresses the major issues and challenges facing the archival/records management professions in their quest to effectively manage electronic records. Students will study and evaluate the impact automation has had on archival theory and practice, and will analyze various models and strategies archivists have developed to manage electronic records.
Prerequisites
LIS590EV	Eval Programs and Services [Evaluating Programs and Services]
Credit	4 GR hours
Description	This course provides both a theoretical base and an application base for the design and conduct of evaluations. The course includes an introduction to evaluation by reviewing history. It also provides a review of several landmark events and theoretical foundations of evaluation. The remainder of the course is focused on designing evaluations that can be applied to real needs that exists in the LIS context. This course will view the LIS context very broadly to include libraries, museums, retrieval system, and other technology based processes. Students will be able to fit the content of this course to their own specialization or work context. Outcome evaluation will be emphasized in the course, but other forms of evaluation will be included.
Prerequisites
LIS590FCC	Federation of Community Colls [Federation of Community Collections]
Credit	4 GR hours
Description	Examines future technologies and models for federating collections. Community collections are small specialized sources on a particular topic for a particular group. Such collections will form the great bulk of items on the Net in the future. Federating across such collections involves mapping similar objects across distributed collections to enable searching as a unified whole. A broad range of disciplines will be examined for different levels of federation, including schema integration in computer science, vocabulary switching in information science, cross-cultural universals in anthropology and psychology, cross-population lifestyles in healthcare and architecture. Students will read and present current papers from the research literature. A semester-long project will be required, which could lead to a PhD dissertation, involving design or implementation of new models or new systems.
Prerequisites	Doctoral student; other graduate students may enroll with consent of instructor.
LIS590FL	Folklore: Communication and Culture
Credit	4 GR hours
Description	A graduate level introduction to research in folklore, defined here as a pervasive mode of informal, non-commercial communication. We will explore some of the history of folklore scholarship, collecting and archiving, and look at folklorists' methods of study, analysis and interpretation. These range from the collection of "folklore texts" in isolation to the ethnography of whole communities, including dispersed and diasporic communities. Special concerns of the course include folklore as an entr?e to community self-documentation, cultural preservation (in the wake of wars and disasters, for example) and problems of intellectual freedom and cultural ownership.
Prerequisites
LIS590FM	Financial Management
Credit	4 GR hours
Description	Provides an orientation to the variety of financial management techniques appropriate for libraries and information centers, with an emphasis on sources for obtaining financial support from grants, contracts, and other alternative sources.
Skill	basic spreadsheet
Prerequisites	LIS 505 or consent of instructor.
LIS590GC	Pol Econ Global Comm Info [The Political Economy of Global Communications and Information]
Credit	4 GR hours
Description	The structure and control of global communications and information are of commanding importance in today's world. The rise of vertically integrated, transnational corporations in this sector, alongside the characteristically recent emergence throughout much of the world of national and regional units of capital, are transforming the earlier system based on cultural/informational exports and imports. The continuing transnationalization of production and distribution systems; institutionally stratified opportunities to influence the informational environment; access to communications systems and services; intellectual property issues; propaganda in the contemporary world; and evaluation of the economic importance of the sector are vital questions for research. We will analyze basic texts and recent scholarship on these topics to acquaint graduate students with leading themes and breaking research in the field, so as to assist them in designing and implementing their own research programs. Students will read a series of scholarly monographs, and write major research papers.
Prerequisites	PhD student; other graduate students may enroll with consent of instructor.
LIS590GI	Globalization & Info [Globalization and Information]
Credit	4 GR hours
Description	This seminar is an exploration of globalization. It will examine the emergent shift from a world organized around the political space of the nation-state to one organized around the informational, communicational and bio-political space of the whole planet. The focus of the course will be on how "the global" comes about, as information technologies, humans, nature, and discursive regimes are assembled in novel ways. Rather than using "globalization" as a description and explanation of our world, the course focuses on globalization as something to be explained. Readings will draw from scholarship on social studies of science, anthropology, sociology of finance, biosciences and information studies.
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LIS590GP	Great Printers and Their Books
Credit	2 GR hours
Description	The intellectual, economic, social, and cultural impact of printing was--and continues to be--enormous. In this course students will study the makers of books that have influenced Western culture since the invention of printing and will survey the monuments of printing history and the printers, authors, and texts behind them, as well as reception history. The scholar printer of the Renaissance, polemical printers, court printers, aesthetic printers, cheap printers, and pirate printers will be discussed, along with the political, religious, literary, scientific, and artistic influences of their books on society. Items from the UIUC Rare Book & Manuscript Library collection will be examined during each class meeting. [Elective course for Graduate Certificate in Special Collections]
Prerequisites
LIS590HB	History of the Book
Credit	Varies--see description.
Description	This course will cover a wide variety of topics concerned with the history and development of the book, both as a physical object and as the bearer of intellectual content. Discussions will explore different aspects of written materials, including the physical properties of the objects that carry text and image (e.g., papyrus, paper, parchment, etc.) and their cultural and intellectual function. [Elective course for the Graduate Certificate in Special Collections]. [Note: The course could be offered for 2 hours credit only, or 4 hours credit only, or variable (2 or 4 hours) credit with the coursework requirements in any given semester in proportion to the number of credit hours for that term. The amount of credit offered may vary in any given term. For example, the course is being offered for just 4 hours of credit in Fall 2008.]
Prerequisites
LIS590HE	Higher Educ and Info Prof'ls [Higher Education and Information Professionals]
Credit	4 GR hours
Description	Introduces the higher education environment in which academic librarians and other information professionals operate in order to prepare students for leadership roles both within academic libraries and in their parent institutions. This course will explore a variety of issues including: history and organization of higher education; accreditation; characteristics of students; roles of faculty and other campus professionals; and current issues and challenges.
Prerequisites
LIS590HF	History & Foundations of LIS [History and Foundations of Library and Information Science]
Credit	4 GR hours
Description	This course introduces students to the historical foundations of library and information science and provides a basis for exploring more recent theoretical and experimental developments. The course examines the complex interactions of socio-cultural, technological and professional factors underlying the emergence and current status of LIS as a field of investigation and practice. It also suggests the relevance of historical study to fundamental and continuing problems of information management, despite the technological and organizational developments that have occurred over the centuries. The required reading is wide ranging but highly selected given the course's scope. This course is required of all first semester PhD students.
Prerequisites	Required of first-semester LIS doctoral students
LIS590HI	Healthcare Infrastructure
Credit	4 GR hours
Description	Healthcare is the largest industry in the country, but the current infrastructure for providing healthcare is not viable. Recent advances in information technology promise radically different infrastructure that could provide a viable model for providing healthcare. This course will examine healthcare infrastructure through lectures and discussions, through text readings and web sites. There is a particular focus on measuring the health of populations, in the demographic era of chronic illness. Information sources are discussed in detail from medical literature and records to health brochures and monitors. There are no pre-requisites for this course, but students encouraged to use background experiences. Practical topics will be emphasized with the aim of revolutionizing an industry in transition. A semester project will be required, on information technology aspects of population health measurement.
Skill	Programming background helpful
Prerequisites	Doctoral student; other graduate students may enroll with permission of instructor
LIS590I	Indexing and Abstracting
Credit	4 GR hours
Description	The practice and underlying theories for two basic operations in information systems and service, in print and electronic form.
Prerequisites	LIS 501 and LIS 507, or consent of instructor
LIS590IA	Information Architecture
Credit	4 GR hours
Description	The purpose of the course is to provide a solid conceptual framework and an understanding of current issues, methods and practices within the field of information architecture. The emerging discipline of information architecture is becoming increasingly important and sophisticated. Brochure web sites are evolving into mission-critical channels for sales and support. Intranets and employee portals are being leveraged to drive cost-savings and productivity enhancement through e-services and knowledge management. Universities are offering distance education courses all around the globe. Distributed teams collaborate and share information via online communities. All of these activities depend upon usable, flexible, scalable information architectures. Major components of this course will include: Fundamental concepts of information architecture; information ecology framework (context, content, users); building blocks of web sites, intranets and online communities; designing and integrating information architectures; advanced concepts and professional skills. [Elective course for the CAS in Digital Libraries concentration]
Prerequisites
LIS590IBL	Inquiry-based Learning
Credit	4 GR hours
Description	The primary goal is to provide an introduction to a way of thinking about learning as it occurs in libraries, museums, homes, and workplaces, as well as in formal educational settings. In order to explore that, we will read about, observe, and engage in inquiry- based learning. We will examine the creation of environments in which learners are actively engaged in making meaning through personal and collaborative inquiry. The course will also examine challenges to inquiry-based instruction, including those related to management, assessment, basic skills, cultural differences, and pedagogical goals.
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LIS590IC	Information Consulting I
Credit	2 or 4 GR hours
Description	This course is designed to provide students with "real world" experience as Information Specialists on cross-functional teams working on actual projects for business and industry clients. In addition to regular class sessions, students are assigned to work with teams of MBA students, providing crucial assistance in accurately defining and satisfying the clients' project information needs. Course Objectives: 1) to become effective and contributing members of cross-functional work teams; 2) to develop an understanding of the people, processes, and resources involved in business and industry information work.; and 3) to apply knowledge of information resources and technologies to organizational problem-solving. The 2 hours option will require participation in several of the scheduled class sessions in addition to work on project teams; the 4 hours option requires students to attend all scheduled class sessions in addition to completion of assignments and work on project teams.
Prerequisites	To register for 2 hours, a student must have completed a course in Business Reference or Competitive Intelligence or have had substantial, demonstrable experience doing business research. Students without this coursework or experience should register for 4 hours.
LIS590ID	Information Dynamics
Credit	2 or 4 GR hours
Description	All information changes. New terms, structures, content, use-contexts, copying/proliferation, links, and re-interpretation all mean information is dynamic in location, format, uses, meanings, and effects. This course introduces models and strategies for understanding, managing, and exploiting information dynamics, both large-scale and micro. Topics include technical, social, modeling, analysis, and empirical foundations; rate and impact metrics; the Information Dynamics meta-model; social-analysis, selectionist, self-organizing, population dynamics, and game-based approaches; growth and change in information networks; information flows; semiotic and opinion dynamics; preservation (stabilization) dynamics; Applications in indexes, metadata, "tagging", "social software," web ranking, collaborative problem solving/learning, bioinformatics, etc. Activities include reading, analysis, active modeling, and empirical case studies. Audience: students wanting strong foundations for technical or policy activities involving dynamic organizational-to-global scale information environments.
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LIS590IF	Intell Freedom Lib Svcs Youth [Intellectual Freedom and Library Services for Youth]
Credit	2 or 4 GR hours
Description	This course examines the intellectual freedom issues that affect children and young adults, including the censorship of books and student publications and the use of Internet filtering software in libraries and schools. In addition, it explores cultural factors that affect young people's reading and viewing choices, including literary awards, mass media, youth culture, youth activism, and corporate marketing to youth. This course provides an opportunity for in-depth discussion of censorship controversies and developing the skills and strategies needed to navigate them.
Prerequisites
LIS590II	Interfaces to Info Systems [Interfaces to Information Systems]
Credit	4 GR hours
Description	This course will provide an introduction to the following: Issues in Human Computer Interaction; Analysis of interfaces and their use; Synthesis: the design process as an engineering activity; Designing usable interfaces under constraints of resources; The rapid prototyping and evaluation cycle; Metacognition: learning how to learn and to operate in this domain as a reflective, continually improving professional. Considers how people use information systems such as on-line public access catalogues, CD-Roms, bibliographic databases, digital libraries, world wide web pages, web search engines, etc. [Elective course for the CAS in Digital Libraries concentration]
Prerequisites	Some basic experience of using the web and designing simple web pages using rudimentary HTML; experience in using a range of computing applications.
LIS590IL	Global Perspectives in LIS [Global Perspectives in Library and Information Science]
Credit	4 GR hours
Description	This course is designed to acquaint students with the issues in international and comparative librarianship. Examines how concepts such as "one-world" and "free flow of information" are valid in the international information arena; the importance of internationalizing library education; role of international information agencies and the need for information policy making.
Prerequisites
LIS590IM	Information Modeling
Credit	4 GR hours
Description	An introduction to the principles of information modeling commonly used to support digital library applications such as collections management and electronic publishing. The course takes a logic-based approach to analyzing and comparing different modeling methods. Specific modeling practices covered include relational database design, entity relationship modeling (ER/EER), document grammars (XML), and semantic web languages (RDF/S and OWL). [Required core course for the CAS in Digital Libraries concentration]
Prerequisites
LIS590IN	Information Networks
Credit	4 GR hours
Description	This course explores the structures, processes and implications of information networks. It stresses the generality of human information networks in communities, organizations, and society, not just computer/communication networks or the Web. We cover foundations for understanding these networks (data, modeling, experimentation, and analysis). Then we study numerous specific relationships between network structures, information content, community aims/needs, economic factors, styles of network growth/decay, and network impacts. Settings for classwork and projects include community networks, blog networks, hypertexts and other document networks, information producer/supplier networks, knowledge networks, expertise networks, federated libraries, etc.
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LIS590IP	Information Policy
Credit	4 GR hours
Description	Introduction to information policy concepts and issues relevant to the discipline of Library and Information Science. Considering information policy from a broadly-defined perspective, we will move from a macro-level exposition of the policy process and players toward an interrogation of various individual policy areas that have implications for information creation, ownership, control, access, and dissemination in the United States and in selected other countries. The emphasis in this course is placed on elaborating and examining the broader social, political, cultural, and economic contexts that attach to information policy issues. [Elective course for the CAS in Digital Libraries concentration]
Prerequisites
LIS590IQ	Information Quality [Information Quality: Principles and Practices]
Credit	4 GR hours
Description	This course will cover current conceptions of information quality, their scientific bases, and their practical application. It will teach you about systematic ways of measuring, analyzing, auditing, improving, and assuring the quality and relevance of large, diverse, multi-client information collections such as libraries, databases, websites, and online repositories. Representative topics to be covered include quality management in general, and quality management as specifically applied to information; simulation and statistical tools for quality measurement and control; quality issues for large web indexes (e.g. search engines, web portals, e-commerce catalogs); internal, reputational, and contextual aspects of information quality; relationships between quality and trust; etc. [Elective course for the CAS in Digital Libraries concentration]
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LIS590IRR	Inf Retrv & Natural Lang Proc [Information Retrieval and Natural Language Processing]
Credit	4 GR hours
Description	This doctoral seminar will survey different approaches to the design and evaluation of Information Extraction with Natural language Processing for different types of text data. Students may come to the seminar with particular data in mind, and can learn about relevant techniques for processing the data. Additional datasets from NLP research projects at UIUC and other universities will also be available. We will use a standards NLP and machine learning text but the focus of the seminar will be on practical application and evaluation. Students will run pilot studies with these data sets and will produce NSF style proposals for full implementations.
Prerequisites	PhD student; other graduate students may enroll with instructor's permission.
LIS590IS	Information in Society
Credit	4 GR hours
Description	Drawing on classic and cutting-edge research on the system of information provision, this course provides conceptual foundations for historical, political-economic and policy analysis of information institutions and infrastructures.
Prerequisites	Doctoral student
LIS590ISM	Information Service Marketing
Credit	4 GR hours
Description	Covers all aspects of non-profit marketing, including the basic principles of marketing, and their application to a wide variety of non-profit settings and applying the principles in a joint (all-class) evaluation of an information service provider, carrying out market research for this provider, and writing up a set of recommendations. The goal of this course is, thus, two-fold: to provide a theoretical foundation that can be applied to many different organizational settings, particularly non-profits; to apply these theoretical concepts to a real-world situation comparable to the settings in which you will be employed.
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LIS590ISP	Soc Hist US Telecomm: ISP [Social History of U.S. Telecommunications: Industry Structure and Policy]
Credit	4 GR hours
Description	This course seeks to render a broad historical portrait of the range and character of a vital producer and consumer service: telecommunications. Episodes of social conflict over the institutional purpose of telecommunications are accorded emphasis in our effort to set changing industry structures and public policies within the larger and longer-term historical movement of American society.
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LIS590ITB	Info Tech & Black Experience [Information Technology and the Black Experience]
Credit	4 GR hours
Description	[Meets with AFRO 598AA] This course will examine the ways in which the Black community is being impacted by and using information and communication technologies. Key foci will be the digital divide, digitization of the Black experience, digital cultural production, and cyberpower. The course will involve lecture-discussion, but mainly be in a workshop format with the main practical activity being a group research project digitizing the Black experience in Illinois.
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LIS590IU	Design of Info Use Studies [Design of Information Use Studies]
Credit	4 GR hours
Description	Examines theories and methods applied in information use studies in library and information science and cognate fields. The course will focus on the evolution of cognitive and social approaches to understanding information behavior in recent decades, with particular attention to current trends in qualitative studies of information practices of disciplinary groups and users of digital resources. Readings, discussion, and assignments will emphasize research study design, the application of various data collection and analysis techniques, and the implications of information use studies for information system and service development. Students will gain experience developing research questions, collecting and analyzing data, and complying with the requirements of conducting research with human subjects. This is an advanced research seminar suited for doctoral students and masters students with a research background.
Prerequisites	Doctoral student; other graduate students with a research background may enroll with permission of the instructor
LIS590KK	Adult Popular Literature
Credit	2 or 4 GR hours
Description	Introduction to popular writing for adults and the place this material occupies in the library. Main topics covered include Adult Publishing and Reading, Types of Popular Literature, and Popular Literature in Libraries.
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LIS590KR	Knowl Rep and Formal Ontology [Knowledge Representation and Formal Ontology]
Credit	2 or 4 GR hours
Description	An introduction to logic-based knowledge representation and formal ontology, emphasizing applications in LIS, such as IFLA's Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records (FRBR), the Dublin Core Abstract Model, and CIDOC's Conceptual Reference Model (CRM) for cultural heritage documentation, as well as the W3C's semantic web "Web Ontology Language (OWL). Although some prior experience with formal logic is desirable, it is not a prerequisite and a tutorial on first order logic will be presented at the start of the course. [Elective course for the CAS in Digital Libraries concentration]
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LIS590KS	Knowledge Studies for Info Sci [Knowledge Studies for Information Science]
Credit	4 GR hours
Description	This seminar examines the dynamics of knowledge drawing on recent scholarship of knowledge, sociology of science, social epistemology, and the sociology of rhetoric. Discusses the literature critically, investigating its relationship to the information transfer process and the study of information problems in library and information science.
Prerequisites	PhD student; other graduate students may enroll with consent of instructor.
LIS590LA	Libship for Latin Amer Studies [Librarianship for Latin American, Iberian and Latina Studies]
Credit	2 or 4 GR hours
Description	This course will include coverage of reference and resources; collection development; and professional activities in librarianship with a focus on Latin American, Iberian, and Latina Studies.
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LIS590LD	Literature-based Discovery
Credit	2 or 4 GR hours
Description	Literature-based discovery (LBD) is an information science approach to formulating and assessing scientific hypotheses. It is characterized by bringing together explicit statements (taken from different scientific papers) to form implicit assertions. This course will focus on the technical aspects of LBD and some related text mining problems that have been addressed using the concept of implicit information (e.g., author name disambiguation). Seminars will discuss various existing approaches, computer lab sessions will teach fundamental text mining techniques, and projects will explore some of the open problems in LBD.
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LIS590LI	Legal Issues in LIS [Legal Issues in Library and Other Information Settings]
Credit	2 or 4 GR hours
Description	A detailed exploration of the legal issues arising in various library settings, including access rights, privacy and confidentiality, copyright, intellectual freedom and information liability and malpractice. There are three objectives: 1) to understand the nature and scope of legal problems arising in the operation of the library; 2) to identify the responsibilities that library and information professionals have in executing current law and the opportunities available to effect necessary change; and 3) to evaluate current legal responses to such problems and envision alternative responses, both legal and non-legal, in light of sound information concepts. [Elective course for Graduate Certificate in Special Collections]
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LIS590LL	Law Librarianship
Credit	2 or 4 hours
Description	Explores the various types of law libraries and functions within the law library, including legal reference, technical services, management, and collection development. Introduces special issues related to working with legal materials and law library patrons. Weekly readings and discussion will provide history and foundations of the field and an exploration of current issues and trends in the profession. Students will present a research paper on a topic related to the future of law librarianship.
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LIS590LP	Letterpress Printing [History and Techniques of Letterpress Printing]
Credit	2 GR hours
Description	This course explores the history and techniques of fine printing (letterpress), looks at classics of typography and printing in examples from the Rare Book and Manuscript Library, and provides technical instruction in typesetting and press operation. Students will have exposure to the conceptual, intellectual, and aesthetic considerations of printing and printmaking. [Elective course for Graduate Certificate in Special Collections]
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LIS590LR	Literacy, Reading, and Readers
Credit	4 GR hours
Description	Reading and literacy play a central role in all areas of LIS, as well as in its cognate fields, yet they are a largely invisible part of our professional infrastructure. This course will address this oversight through a multidisciplinary investigation of the various activities, processes, and means of acquisition associated with literacy and reading as physical, social, educational and cultural activities. Drawing upon scholarship in LIS, education, literature, history, sociology, psychology, and anthropology, and with special consideration given to the dimensions of age, gender, class, religion, race and ethnicity, we will expand upon traditional notions of literacy and explore the notion of multiple literacies.
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LIS590LT	Learning Technologies
Credit	4 GR hours
Description	New digital technologies, such as the WWW, have the potential to open many doors for learners, providing essential learning resources and engaging all students in meaningful learning activities. At the same time, these new technologies raise serious issues such as quality, privacy, and equity of use. This course is designed for students interested in the promise and perils of new information and communication technologies to enhance learning.
Skill	basic HTML
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LIS590LW	Web Design Construct Organizs [Web Design and Construction for Organizations]
Credit	4 GR hours
Description	Focuses on the basics of web site design, content development, HTML programming, procedures and policies for organizations, with a concentration on public, academic and special libraries. Students will investigate and design a representative site. Course will also examine management strategies including web site editors, redundancy and archiving.
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LIS590MC	Medieval Codicology [Medieval Codicology: The Medieval Book from Sheep to Shelf]
Credit	2 GR hours
Description	Looks at the emergence of the codex as the primary form of book in the West. We shall consider the physical and intellectual developments of the codex, from the writing of the text to its final presentation on the page. Students will follow the text from the author to the book designers to the scribe to the illustrator to the binder to the reader, with stops along the way concentrating on tools, design, layout, ruling, illumination, and binding. We shall also look at modern approaches to codicology, including monastic versus commercial scriptoria, editing a medieval manuscript, paleography, dating, establishing provenance, and so forth. And we shall answer the question: What should a scholarly edition of a medieval text look like? [Elective course for Graduate Certificate in Special Collections]
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LIS590MD	Metadata in Theory & Practice
Credit	4 GR hours
Description	Metadata plays an increasingly critical role in the creation, distribution, management and use of electronic materials. This course will combine theoretical examination of the design of metadata schema with their practical application in a variety of settings. Hands-on experience in the creation of descriptive, administrative and structural metadata, along with their application in systems such as OAI harvesting, OpenURL resolution systems, metasearch systems and digital repositories, will help students develop a thorough understanding of current metadata standards as well as such issues as crosswalking metadata schema, metadata's use in information retrieval and data management applications, and the role of standards bodies in metadata schema development. [Required core course for the CAS in Digital Libraries concentration]
Skill	Knowledge of XML encoding and validation strongly encouraged.
Prerequisites	LIS 501 and LIS 452 or equivalents, or consent of the instructors.
LIS590MG	Project Management for LIS
Credit	4 GR hours
Description	Project management skills are essential for LIS practitioners who want to be leaders. Effective project management is needed to create everything from digital libraries, to community informatics outreach projects, to new physical library facilities. This is a comprehensive course in project management for anyone who is serious about planning and managing successful projects. This course combines knowledge, tools and techniques that are common to managing successful projects in any field with insight into the special challenges of managing projects in the LIS field. General project management subjects covered include a framework for project management, as well as the key project management knowledge areas: integration, scope, time, cost, quality, human resource, communication, risk, and procurement. Specific LIS project management subjects covered include the demand for project management skills in libraries, case studies of projects in both large and small libraries, and methods for addressing the special challenges of digital library projects.
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LIS590MH	Spec Colls Museums & Hist Set [Special Collections in Museums and Historical Settings]
Credit	2 GR hours
Description	This course will look at the particular challenges and opportunities presented by library collections housed within or related to museums and historic properties. We will cover a broad range of topics, including constituents, administration, development, exhibitions, donors, boards of directors, renovation projects, and outreach. There will be field trips to nearby institutions, and the final project will be based on individual case studies. [Elective course for Graduate Certificate in Special Collections]
Prerequisites	LIS 590RB or its equivalent
LIS590ML	Media Literacy and Youth
Credit	2 or 4 GR hours
Description	Literacy involves the ability to read, write, and understand the meanings of text. Media literacy and critical viewing extend traditional literacy to include the construction and deconstruction of texts mediated by audio and video technologies. This course has a three-fold task: to examine our own histories with media and to question how we currently use and analyze mass mediated texts and technologies; to acquaint students with instructional resources and strategies for media literacy in libraries and schools; and to guide students in a production project that will utilize and deepen their critical understanding. The course will take child development into account as we consider the need for media literacy in the rapidly changing media environment of the digital age.
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LIS590MM	Medieval Manuscripts [Medieval and Early Modern Manuscripts]
Credit	2 GR hours
Description	This course is an intensive introduction to medieval manuscripts, asking such questions as who made manuscripts, how they were written and assembled, who illuminated them and why, the ways they were used, and how they have survived. It will look at some of the most famous types of illuminated manuscripts, including Bibles, Books of Hours and literary texts. It will explain how to identify texts and fragments, how to read and date medieval scripts, and how to gain access to original manuscripts across the world. It will look at the market for medieval manuscripts, both in the Middle Ages and today, and it will discuss manuscript libraries and collectors. The course will include ample access to original medieval manuscripts, and practical work involving actual examples from at least the eleventh century to the renaissance. [Elective course for Graduate Certificate in Special Collections]
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LIS590MT	Informetrics
Credit	4 GR hour
Description	Informetrics refers to quantitative measurements of information resources such as bibliographic databases and the world wide web. It has its roots in bibliometrics (e.g., to study patterns of publication, citation, and collaboration behavior) and has a long history of being applied in scientometrics (e.g., to assess scientific productivity). Recently, it has been expanded to include webometrics (e.g., to characterize the structure and growth of the world wide web), and other domain specific-metrics. Lectures and discussion will broadly survey the literature on informetrics and study specific cases in depth, striking a balance between fundamental principles vs. applications that demonstrate the value of informetrics. Computer laboratory sessions and assignments will include the use of datasets and tools to teach how to perform informetric analyses. Term projects offer the opportunity to address novel informetrics-related research questions and can be tailored to the students? own interests.
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LIS590NF	Info Books & Resources Youth [Information Books and Resources for Youth]
Credit	2 or 4 GR hours
Description	Evaluation, selection and use of information books and other resources for young people (ages 0-18) in public libraries and school media centers; explores standard selection criteria for factual print and nonprint materials in all formats and develops the ability to evaluate and promote nonfiction books and resources according to their various uses (personal and curricular) and according to young people's various needs (intellectual, emotional, social and physical).
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LIS590OD	Ontology Development
Credit	4 GR hours
Description	An introduction to formal ontology focusing on development and implementation issues and contemporary ontology software tools and languages. In spring of 2008 we will use as example ontologies one for museum and heritage information (CIDOC-CRM) and one for biological information (the Functional Model of Anatomy). Students may also do projects on other ontologies in other areas if they wish. The ontology editor Protege will be used throughout and the representation of ontologies in W3C semantic web languages RDF(S) and OWL will be emphasized.
Prerequisites	LIS 501
LIS590OH	Ontologies in Humanities
Credit	4 GR hours
Description	An exploration of formal ontologies and conceptual models for information representation in humanities research, culture and heritage management, museum documentation, and related areas. Special attention will be given to the ICM/CIDOC Content Reference Model (for museum documentation) and its relationship to IFLA's Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records. Although no specific prior knowledge is required the course is conducted in a seminar format and focuses on theoretical topics.
Prerequisites	LIS 501 or consent of instructor
LIS590OI	Orgs Info & Tech [Organizations, Information and Technology]
Credit	4 GR hours
Description	This graduate seminar draws on research in social and organizational informatics, computer-supported cooperative work (CSCW), and information and communication technology (ICT) innovation and adoption to address the way social and technical aspects of ICTs affect organizational structures and work practices.
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LIS590ON	Ontologies in Natural Science
Credit	4 GR hours
Description	This course explores the application of formal ontology and related information modeling techniques in the natural sciences, focusing particularly on the biological and medical sciences. There are no specific prerequisites and the necessary background will be presented as part of the course, but students should have an antecedent interest in these topics and be prepared to make routine use of symbolic languages.
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LIS590OPR	Open Problems in IS Research [Open Problems in Information Science Research]
Credit	4 GR hours
Description	This seminar examines the nature of research contributions in information science, and the relationships among pure and applied research. Topics include how to identify basic research questions, situate them with respect to the literature, and articulate them in research proposals.
Prerequisites	PhD student
LIS590PB	Book Collecting [History and Practices of Book Collecting]
Credit	2 GR hours
Description	An introduction to the history and practices of book collecting, with particular emphasis on collecting and collectors in Britain and America from the eighteenth century to the present. Most special collections libraries are actually "collections of collections," and most of these collections were assembled by private book collectors who followed the tastes and collecting principles and standards of their own times. The course will cover these changing tastes and fashions in book collecting over the last several centuries, as well as the various ways that collectors have regarded rarity, condition, association, and provenance. The gradual broadening of collectors' ideas of the scope of subjects suitable for the formation of a collection will also be included. The course does not assume any prior experience with rare books ? all necessary terminology will be covered in the course readings and lectures. [Elective course for Graduate Certificate in Special Collections]
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LIS590PC	Preserv & Conserv Colls Care [Preservation and Conservation for Collections Care]
Credit	4 GR hours
Description	This course, meant to build on previous coursework in Preservation, Special Collections and/or Rare Book Curation, will focus on the physical structure and chemical composition of book, paper, and photographic materials. Students will learn how historic and modern library and archives materials are produced, how they age and potentially deteriorate, and different approaches for their physical care. Class work will be split between traditional lectures and readings as well as hands-on projects in book construction and minimally invasive treatments and stabilization mechanisms. The goal will be to educate students to a level at which they can effectively communicate with conservation and preservation professionals, as well as set educated priorities and expectations for the care of their collections. A $35 additional course fee will be assessed to the student's tuition & fees bill. [Elective course for Graduate Certificate in Special Collections]
Prerequisites	LIS 582 or LIS 590RB, or consent of instructor.
LIS590PD	Digital Preservation
Credit	4 GR hours
Description	This course examines the current problems with and approaches to digital preservation that are fundamental to the long-term accessibility of digital materials. We will examine the range of current research problems, along with emerging methods and tools, and assess a variety of organizational scenarios to plan and implement a preservation plan. Topics will include basic information theory, preservation of complex digital objects; standards and specifications; sustainability and risk assessment; authenticity, integrity, quality control, and certification; and management of preservation activities. [Elective course for Graduate Certificate in Special Collections]
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LIS590PDP	Perspectives Digital Preserv [Perspectives on Digital Preservation]
Credit	4 GR hours
Description	This seminar examines recent attempts to create both theoretical and methodological frameworks for insuring the long-term preservation of digital materials. Drawing upon previous work in information theory, literary theory, social theory and diplomatics, students in the course will critically examine a variety of recent efforts to establish standards and best practices for digital preservation. The course will emphasize exploring the interplay of technological and social issues involved in digital preservation, including matters of authenticity and trust, integrity of information, ownership and intellectual property, and the application of concepts such as authorial intent in recent digital preservation initiatives such as the Variable Media Network. The class will be conducted as a seminar centered on discussion of readings as well as student interests. Students will be expected to lead class discussions and provide updates on their own research over the course of the semester.
Prerequisites	CAS or Doctoral student; Master's students may enroll with consent of instructor.
LIS590PEI	Political Economy of Info [The Political Economy of Information]
Credit	4 GR hours
Description	Examines the contemporary transformation of information provision as a political economic process, by focusing on how and why the dynamic of capitalist development continues to be re-centered around information. What role has been played in this transition by innovations in information and communications technologies (ICTs), and by social actors, notably including government agencies, corporations, and informationally focused organizations such as libraries, universities, schools and museums? What have been the chief modalities of information market development, or ?commodification?? How does information commodification both build upon and alter existing international political economic relationships? How does informationalization impinge on capitalist development overall? No prerequisites are needed to take this course; a research paper is required.
Prerequisites	doctoral student
LIS590PI	Personal Information Mgmt [Personal Information Management]
Credit	forthcoming
Description	How do individuals interact with the complicated streams of information directed at them and flowing from them? What theoretical constructs have been developed to model these interactions? What practical techniques are used to help people deal with their information? This course will address these question through the lens of personal information management (PIM), an emerging area of inquiry. In addition to reviewing the research literature around PIM, students will create prototypes of solutions that they design to address a specific problem faced by individuals in managing their information.
Prerequisites	Prior completion of LIS 452 or LIS 590LW recommended but not required.
LIS590PM	Paper in the Scholarly World [The Manufacture, Description, Uses & Preservation of Paper...]
Credit	2 GR hours
Description	[The Manufacture, Description, Uses, and Preservation of Paper in the Scholarly World] This course is an introduction to the world of paper with respect to rare books--their manufacture, materials, properties, uses, decoration, collection, sale, distribution, description, editing, preservation, and conservation, along with the preferred vocabulary of the medium. In this course students will be presented with a large vocabulary, pertaining to the range of surfaces of human communication, from stone to clay to several kinds of proto-papers (papyrus, vellum, bark paper, tapa cloth, and so forth) to the real thing--paper, in its myriad manifestations. The knowledge imparted by this class should be useful for anyone who deals with the medium, who describes it, shelves it, buys or sells it, preserves it, repairs it, or even just admires it. [Elective course for Graduate Certificate in Special Collections]
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LIS590PPL	Public Pedagogies & Learning
Credit	4 GR hours
Description	This course will explore education in public institutions including both an historical/foundational approach as well as examining the current status of education within public institutions. Seeks to review the major intellectual strands that inform, or at least underlie, the study of public educational institutions. Public educational institutions include conventional physical museums along with similar educational institutions, broadly defined, including archives, and libraries and the course will consider how the history of ideas about education and about learning in public institutions are directed by various learning theories. Explores the impetus and intent, the language and conceptual frameworks behind major work on the topics constituting educational theory, all with an eye to assisting the formation of the student's own understanding of theory and its implication in institutions such as museums, archives, libraries, and art galleries. The goal is to gain a greater sense of the theory that forms the impetus of public educational institutions. [Meets with CI 590 PPL (Curriculum & Instruction)]
Prerequisites	Doctoral student.
LIS590PRA	Prof'l Research in Action [Professional Research in Action]
Credit	2 or 4 GR hours
Description	Provides an introduction to systematic modes of investigation that librarians, educators, non-profit staff, and other professionals use on the job in their day-to-day activities. The course emphasizes research approaches that are practical, responsive to community needs and capabilities, and oriented to both organizational and societal change. It draws on the theory and practice of such noted public intellectuals as John Dewey, Jane Addams, W.E.B. DuBois, Paulo Freire, and Donald Sch?n. Students will be introduced to a range of inquiry approaches that have proven valuable in a variety of contexts around the world, including program planning and evaluation, community needs assessment, and identifying educational outcomes.
Prerequisites	Core course for the Community Informatics Corps
LIS590PRO	Prof'l Research in Action [Professional Research in Action] (Off-Site section of LIS 590 PRA)
Credit	2 or 4 GR hours
Description	[Off-site section of 590 PRA] Provides an introduction to systematic modes of investigation that librarians, educators, non-profit staff, and other professionals use on the job in their day-to-day activities. The course emphasizes research approaches that are practical, responsive to community needs and capabilities, and oriented to both organizational and societal change. It draws on the theory and practice of such noted public intellectuals as John Dewey, Jane Addams, W.E.B. DuBois, Paulo Freire, and Donald Sch?n. Students will be introduced to a range of inquiry approaches that have proven valuable in a variety of contexts around the world, including program planning and evaluation, community needs assessment, and identifying educational outcomes. Registration is through Academic Outreach.
Prerequisites	Core course for the Community Informatics Corps
LIS590PT	Pragmatic Technology
Credit	2 or 4 GR hours
Description	This course explores two senses of "pragmatic technology." One is the common language notion of technology that works to meet real human needs, accommodates to users, and is situated in time, place, and setting. The second is a conception of technology from pragmatist theory, in which technology is the means for resolving a problematic situation. The latter sees technologies as both means of action and forms of understanding. The course investigates philosophical and historical work such as that of J. Dewey, W. James, and C. S. Peirce, as well as more recent research on the social uses and implications of technologies.
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LIS590QM	Qualitative Methods Research [Qualitative Methods in Research]
Credit	4 GR hours
Description	Survey of strategies of qualitative inquiry, considering methods of collecting, analyzing, interpreting, and reporting data.
Prerequisites	PhD student; other graduate students may enroll with consent of instructor.
LIS590RB	Rare Book and Spec Colls [Rare Books and Special Collections Librarianship]
Credit	2 hours
Description	This course is designed as a practical introduction to Rare Book and Special Collections Librarianship, to cover for the neophyte as well as the experienced librarian the many issues of these departments' responsibilities, including selection, acquisition, receiving, cataloging, processing, shelving, circulation, inter-library loan, reference, preservation and conservation, security, exhibition, publication, and so forth, including the uses of information technology. [REQUIRED course for Graduate Certificate in Special Collections]
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LIS590RC	Research Methods Text Corpora [Research Methods for Text Corpora]
Credit	4 GR hours
Description	Covers data processing and analysis methods for large collections of texts, and their roles in advancing and testing scientific claims. Topics include collocation analysis, authorship attribution, clustering, stylometry, information theory, and hidden Markov models. Students will be expected to obtain access to a corpus of texts for analysis in projects and exercises. Students must come prepared to obtain or build their own information processing tools, and so prior programming experience will be helpful. The working environment will include standard Unix utilities, programming languages, and numerical/statistical computation packages. However, we will not have time for extensive instruction in their use, and students are free to use other tools if they choose.
Skill	Understanding of elementary descriptive and inferential statistics.Prior programming experience helpful.
Prerequisites	PhD student; other graduate students may enroll with consent of instructor.
LIS590RE	Doing Soc Sci Research in LIS [Introduction to Doing Social Science Research in LIS]
Credit	4 GR hours
Description	Introduces students to the fundamentals of doing social science research in LIS. Students will learn how to frame a research problem, choose an appropriate research method, apply it, and write up the research for presentation and publication. This course is directed toward Master's and CAS degree students in library and information science and is recommended for any students expecting to do research as part of their future work. It is a required course for the Community Informatics specialization.
Prerequisites	LIS Master's or CAS Student.
LIS590RGS	Race Gender Sexuality Inf Prof [Race, Gender and Sexuality in the Information Professions]
Credit	2 or 4 GR hours
Description	This course examines how issues of race, gender and sexuality are represented in the information professions and will study how race, gender and sexuality affect, and are affected by, information technologies. Socially constructed (mis)representations (or lack of representations) of race, gender and sexual identity will be critically examined in different settings as they intersect, overlap, and impact the information use, technology practices, and the design of information resources and services in the processes of creation, organization, and dissemination of information in LIS and related fields.
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LIS590RM	Records Management
Credit	4 GR hours
Description	Records are the business and cultural memory of organizations and society. They contain information that serves as knowledge, as a valuable resource and as an important operating asset. This course provides an introduction to Records and Information Management (RIM). It covers the basic components, principles, methods and significant problems in traditional Records Management as well as electronic records, and it discusses the policies, systems, and practices used to manage records in all physical formats or mediums. The course is designed to give students a comprehensive understanding of the field and of the life cycle concept - management of records from creation to final disposition.
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LIS590RO	Represent & Organiz Info Res [Representing and Organizing Information Resources]
Credit	2 or 4 GR hours
Description	Emphasizes concepts and methods of organizing information resources across different settings and systems, or within one particular setting. The course extends the basic conceptual foundation provided in LIS 501 by providing further reading, analysis, discussion, and practice related to one or several major traditions of information organization in different environments (e.g., libraries, museums, archives, Internet, and within a single organization).
Prerequisites	LIS 501.
LIS590RPE	Rapid Prototyping and Eval [Rapid Prototyping and Evaluation]
Credit	4 hours
Description	This course will explore high speed and low cost techniques for the rapid creation, prototyping, development and testing of research ideas involving the development and use of novel computational applications to help students to create demonstrators, proofs of concept and rapid analyses as they grapple with a research idea. This will allow students to practice techniques for initiating and exploring novel research ideas and quickly developing test cases that can be the basis of subsequent analysis. It draws on themes employed in the development of novel applications of mobile and ubiquitous computing and from the very successful approaches of the MIT Media Lab. The main technological focus will be in applications involving mobile or ubiquitous computing. [Elective course for the CAS in Digital Libraries concentration]
Prerequisites	Doctoral student; other graduate students intending to do a research topic may enroll with permission of instructor.
LIS590S	HR Mgmt in Lib & Info Centers [Human Resource Management in Libraries and Information Centers]
Credit	4 GR hours
Description	This course presents theoretical and practical issues in human resources management and their application to libraries and information centers. Areas covered include employee interviewing and selection, evaluation, discipline and termination of employees, decision-making and job satisfaction.
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LIS590SA	Topics in Subject Access
Credit	2 or 4 GR hours
Description	An advanced topics seminar in subject access that covers a range of topics including aspects of the traditional bibliographic canon, Hjorland's philosophical challenges to universal subject access, ongoing discussions at the Library of Congress about Library of Congress Subject Headings, experimentations with hybrid folksonomic and taxonomic approaches, as well as case studies of how enhanced subject access can increase ROI in business and industry. Open to masters and doctoral students.
Prerequisites	LIS 501 or consent of instructor
LIS590SBD	Scenario Based Design
Credit	4 GR hours
Description	This doctoral seminar will survey different approaches to the design and evaluation of advanced new interactive software, particularly that intended for public use. The focus will be on techniques that enable a principled exploration of a design space and how that exploration can be used to uncover important research issues and guide the development of insightful prototypes and proofs of concept.
Prerequisites	PhD student; other graduate students may enroll with consent of instructor.
LIS590SC	Critical Studies in Child Lit [Critical Studies in Children's Literature]
Credit	4 GR hours
Description	Through reading and discussion of primary and secondary texts, students will gain an understanding of the history of critical approaches to children's literature and the approaches and schools that currently predominate in the field across various academic disciplines. They will also develop their skill in finding critical materials (and gain an understanding of the particular challenges this field, with its diverse academic associations, can pose to their research) and to assess their relevance and achievement. Finally, they will improve their own ability to interact critically with children's literature texts.
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LIS590SD	Digital Social Sciences
Credit	2 or 4 GR hours
Description	This course looks at the emergence of digital research collections in the social sciences with special emphasis on areas where libraries and information science can and should play a role.
Prerequisites	LIS 501 and 502; LIS 523 and/or 590CD preferred, but not required.
LIS590SI	Seminar in Social Informatics
Credit	4 hours
Description	Social Informatics (SI) is the study of relationships between social systems and information/communication technologies (ICTs). This course introduces the major theories underpinning contemporary SI research. It also covers descriptive and analytical accounts of how ICTs and social systems work, and studies of the dilemmas that regularly emerge at the intersection of ICTs and human social activity. Since ICTs (broadly construed) pre-date computing technology, the course considers historical foundations of Social Informatics thought.
Prerequisites	Doctoral student.
LIS590SJ	Social Justice Info Prof [Social Justice in the Information Professions]
Credit	2 or 4 GR hours
Description	This course examines how issues of social justice are treated in LIS and related fields. It provides students with the opportunity to revisit the conceptual foundations of LIS and explore current practice related to achieving equitable, democratic, and beneficial information services for all members of society. The course will introduce students to prominent researchers and proponents of underserved groups, such as the poor and minorities. Students will investigate policy and practice related to marginalized society members, analyzing various aspects of information service provision (e.g., reference, cataloging, collection development, access to materials, public access computing, user studies and evaluation).
Prerequisites
LIS590SL	Special Lib Administration [Special Library Administration]
Credit	2 or 4 GR hours
Description	Provides a thorough introduction and orientation to the objectives, organization and operation of special libraries. An overall objective of this course is to prepare students to be able to achieve SLA competencies after graduation and working as information professionals. Emphasis will be on tools and skills that prepare students for the practical challenge of managing special libraries.
Prerequisites	Preferred: LIS 505
LIS590SM	School Library Media Center [School Library Media Center: Curriculum, Collaboration and Connection]
Credit	2 or 4 GR hours
Description	School Library Information Specialists serve children and young adults (ages 5-18) in K-12 school library media centers. Guided by best practices, they integrate the roles of teacher; instructional partner; program administrator; and information specialist. Students will acquire specific knowledge, skills, and competencies needed to design, develop, integrate and assess curriculum and instruction with an emphasis on the information needs of K-12 students, and will gain an increased understanding of the implementation of these roles building on the foundation established in the Youth Services Librarianship course (LIS 506). Readings and projects will provide students with opportunities to apply the practical knowledge and skills they have learned about building reading literacy, teaching information literacy skills, collaborating with teachers and integrating resources into teaching and learning.
Prerequisites	LIS 506
LIS590SN	Social Networks and Info [Social Networks and Information]
Credit	4 GR hours
Description	Explores the use and application of the social network approach to the study of information processes. The social network approach considers the interactions that occur between people as the building blocks that determine social behavior. It is not an individual's behavior, but rather their behavior with others that is the important unit of analysis. Thus, to understand how people gain access to and distribute information, it is necessary to examine the types of interactions they engage in with others. The interactions show us patterns, and the patterns reveal how social groups organize themselves to accomplish certain goals.
Prerequisites
LIS590SOS	Topics Self-Organiz Info Sys [Topics in Self-Organizing Information Systems]
Credit	4 GR hours
Description	An ongoing research seminar focusing on autonomous evolution of language among artificial agents and information systems - a rapidly developing field and a hot research topic. Language Evolution--both the inception of language from scratch, and its ongoing change over time and experience, is a compelling natural example of self-adaptation in a distributed information system: language is clearly a widespread distributed information system! Beyond their intrinsic interest, these studies apply to adaptive distributed and P2P indexing, shared ontologies, information retrieval, information integration, HCI, bioinformatics, and theory of biology. The seminar incorporates readings on models of evolving communication, lexicons, syntax, semantics, representation, coevolution, and mutual alignment in both human and artificial systems.
Prerequisites	PhD student; other graduate students may enroll with consent of instructor.
LIS590SR	Ref Sources for Rare Books [Reference Sources for Rare Books]
Credit	2 GR hours
Description	An introduction to the vast body of reference literature used in cataloguing and reference work in special collections libraries and the antiquarian book trade. Emphasis will be given to major bibliographies, catalogues, and other reference works in the fields of early printed books, British and American literature, historical Americana, voyages and travels, science and medicine, maps and atlases, the book arts, and the antiquarian book trade and auction market. The course is intended for those who have not yet had a systematic introduction to the reference literature of rare books, as well as others who would like to refresh or update their knowledge of the reference works in these fields. The course will cover approximately three to four hundred printed and electronic sources. The instructor will discuss the background of each source, as well as its strengths and weaknesses. [Elective course for the Graduate Certificate in Special Collections]
Prerequisites
LIS590ST	Strategic Info Management [Strategic Information Management]
Credit	4 GR hours
Description	Overview of contemporary practices for managing information as a strategic asset of public-sector, non-governmental organizations, community-based and civil society service-based organizations including libraries and museums. Course examines the challenges of managing the information assets of organizations, methods for building the information capabilities of organizations, understanding the information infrastructure, strategies to assure reliable and secure IT services, managing information asset outsourcing, and how best to organize and lead the IT function. Students will learn through active learning how management, technology and organization components work together to create information systems, the behavioral aspects of using information assets in organizations, managerial usage of information systems; and, how to assess the information architecture and capabilities of an organization, and practices for developing strategic information plans.
Prerequisites
LIS590TC	Thesaurus Construction
Credit	2 or 4 GR hours
Description	The practice and underlying theories of thesaurus construction for information retrieval. The objectives of the course are for the student to: understand how thesauri for information retrieval are constructed according to national and international standards; critically analyze and revise existing thesauri following basic principles; review other access vocabularies besides thesauri which are needed for improved information retrieval; understand how free and controlled access to information can complement each other or indexing and searching; understand complications to thesaurus construction and use in an environment where there may be multiple thesauri, multilingual collections and users, or special formatted materials. Students enrolled for 4 credit hours will construct a thesaurus from scratch, following procedures and practices outlined in textbooks.
Prerequisites
LIS590TH	Theories of Information
Credit	4 GR hours
Description	This course focuses on three important theories of information: 1) semantic information theory (Dretske's adaptation of Shannon); 2) situation semantics (Barwise and Perry); and 3) classical realism (the platonism of, e.g., Frege, Church, and Chisholm, combined with the social pragmatics of Grice and Searle). We will note potential applications of these theories to the development of foundations for data curation, digital preservation, information seeking, and informatics support for science and scholarship, and to related discussions within LIS (Buckland, Bates, Hjorland, Frohmann).
Prerequisites	Doctoral student; other graduate students need to have taken LIS 501 or have permission of instructor to enroll. A working understanding of predicate logic and elementary discrete mathematics is required.
LIS590TI	Telegraph To Internet [Telegraph to Internet: The Structure And Policy of Network Infrastructures]
Credit	4 hours
Description	This course focuses on the historical analysis of a vital producer and consumer service: telecommunications networks. Successive generations of networking technology are studied in light of social conflict; over their institutional purposes; and shifts in industry structures and public policy are set within the larger and longer-term historical movement of American society.
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LIS590TKR	Topics in Knowl Representation [Topics in Knowledge Representation]
Credit	4 GR hours
Description	A seminar exploring logic-based techniques for representing knowledge, focusing particularly on issues in the application of these techniques to research problems in the foundation of information science. Specific topics include logic and ontology; semantics; logics for representing belief and action; logics for events and situations; and logics for causation and empirical reasoning. Particular attention will be given to philosophical problems and to the history of Knowledge Representation. There are no prerequisites as the necessary logic background will be presented as part of the course, but students should have an antecedent interest in these topics and be prepared to make routine use of symbolic languages.
Prerequisites	PhD student; other graduate students may enroll with consent of instructor.
LIS590TL	Theological Librarianship
Credit	2 or 4 hours
Description	Provides an overview of the contexts, materials, services, and issues characterizing theological librarianship. Course activities include readings, online discussions, writing assignments, and a weekly two-hour live session. Students interact with a number of librarians currently working in the field. Students enrolled for 4 hours complete an additional term project.
Prerequisites	Departmental permission required to enroll.
LIS590TM	Topic Maps [Topic Maps: Theory & Practice]
Credit	4 GR hours
Description	Explores the use of topic maps to integrate information about a subject despite the lack of a common designation for it. Covers current and developing standards for topic maps in a context of writing topic maps. Provides students with a background for evaluating topic maps and topic maps software. For an example of topic maps in use, see: 17th Century diaries of Samuel Pepys (http://www.techquila.com/pepysmap/html/).
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LIS590TP	Preparing Future Faculty
Credit	2 or 4 GR hours
Description	Growing out of a course for "Athena Fellows", first developed in 2004, the course explores issues in higher education relevant to new faculty while helping students build skill and confidence in the areas of: course development, assessment and evaluation, grant writing and communication. The course will touch on subjects of particular use to students in LIS and other interdisciplinary fields. The course considers issues in building a career as a faculty member and challenges prior to receiving tenure.
Prerequisites	Ph.D. students only (first preference to students in LIS, with other students able to enroll if space is available).
LIS590TR	Info Transfer & Collab in Sci [Information Transfer and Collaboration in Science]
Credit	4 GR hours
Description	This seminar examines the role of information in the production of scientific knowledge. Building on a foundation of classic readings in the history and sociology of science, the course will cover a range of contemporary research on scientific communication, collaboration, research practice, and informatics. The focus is on formal and informal information transfer and communication as a social phenomenon and implications for collaborative science and e-science. The course had been developed as part of the master's degree in bioinformatics and is also suited for doctoral students and advanced master's students interested in professional development as science and medical information specialists.
Prerequisites
LIS590TS	Spatial & Temporal Metadata [Spatial and Temporal Metadata: Theoretical Problems]
Credit	2 or 4 hours
Description	Theoretical problems in the representation of space and time, especially with respect to metadata systems supporting science and scholarship; may include topics in mereology and identity conditions as well. PhD status or permission of instructor. Requirements: good working knowledge of first order logic (including proof techniques) and discrete mathematics, and an active professional interest in applying formal methods to problems in information science.
Prerequisites	Graduate student. Requires good working knowledge of first order logic (including proof techniques) and discrete mathematics, and an active professional interest in applying formal methods to problems in information science.
LIS590TVT	Safety Informatics
Credit	4 GR hours
Description	[Meets with PSYC 593TVT] Explores the nature of safety and information in normal and safety critical, high risk environments. Explores the nature of distributed cooperative practice including the organization of and access to information, systems management, language and communication, distributed cognition, computer supported cooperative work, safety culture and activity in a variety of domains. Safety Informatics involves the impact of technology on the nature and character of how organizations and their human actors use information to conduct work activities in high risk organizations. Incorporating technology into the work process is not a panacea for seamless operation and does not ensure proper information management. The impact of distributed safety activities is unlikely to diminish globally as society embraces more virtual organizations. Safety may be enhanced or may remain limited by how information is incorporated into and supports the situated activity of the actors within and between organizational boundaries.
Prerequisites	An interdisciplinary course for graduate students in Human Factors, Library and Information Science, Industrial and Enterprise Systems Engineering, Psychology, Sociology, and Speech Communication.
LIS590UL	Ubiquitous Learning
Credit	4 GR hours
Description	Ubiquitous learning is an emerging educational paradigm which is made possible in part by the affordances of informatics technologies. This course examines some of the ways in which ubiquitous computing technologies enable new ways of learning and teaching in both formal and informal settings.
Prerequisites
LIS590UMI	Understand Multimedia Info [Understanding Multimedia Information: Concepts and Practices]
Credit	4 GR hours
Description	Designed for those with an interest exploiting multimedia information in web and electronic publishing projects, students will be introduced to the theory behind, and the tools associated with, a wide variety of audio (e.g., MP3, WAV, WM9, RealAudio), graphic (JPEG, GIF, PNG, etc.), music (MIDI, GUIDO, etc.) and text information formats (e.g., PS, PDF, etc.). After completing this course students should be empowered to make intelligent choices in selecting appropriate multimedia formats to match particular design requirements. A mix of lectures, demos and hands-on work. Students should have access to a personal computer upon which they can experiment on their own with downloaded multimedia software tools. Students must be competent in basic computing including the installation and configuration of software packages. Must understand basic HTML and simple web site construction tools (e.g., FTP, text editing, etc.). [Elective course for the CAS in Digital Libraries concentration]
Skill	Basic computer skills
Prerequisites
LIS590UO	Upper Level Ontologies
Credit	4 GR hours
Description	This course surveys efforts to develop high-level general purpose ontologies intended to provide the overarching framework for constructing more specific special purpose (domain) ontologies. We begin with philosophical background and then proceeds to major influential contemporary systems developed within the informatics community, such as IEEE SUMO, Cyc, BFO, and DOLCE.
Prerequisites	Although there is no formal prerequisite the course is conducted as a seminar and makes routine use of elementary symbolic logic.
LIS590VV	Fantasy Lit & Media for Youth [Fantasy Literature and Media for Youth]
Credit	2 or 4 GR hours [changed in Fall '09 from 4 hrs only]
Description	This course covers the selection and evaluation of historical and contemporary fantasy literature and media for library collections aimed at children and young adults. Texts examined will include books, movies, and games.
Prerequisites
LIS590WS	Wireless Society
Credit	4 GR hours
Description	Study of the history and development of wireless technologies and their uses. The course looks at the new forms of socio-technical and economic life these technologies make possible. Drawing on work in science and technology studies, consumer culture and the history of technology, the course explores how wireless technologies impact social relations, mobile commercial activities, mobile advertisement and organizational structures. Students also develop critical and ethical perspectives in addressing issues of social and economic marginalization as well as emergent forms of mobile subjectivities.
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LIS590X01	Data Adm Concepts and DB Mgt [Data Administration Concepts and Database Management]
Credit	3 GR hours [a WISE course]
Description	[Syracuse University IST 659] Definition, development, and management of databases for information systems. Data analysis techniques, data modeling, and schema design. Query languages and search specifications. Overview of file organization for databases. Data administration concepts and skills. Requires Windows XP Professional, MS access and MS Visio. Online asynchronous delivery.
Prerequisites	Departmental approval.
LIS590X02	Info Industry Strategies [Information Industry Strategies]
Credit	3 GR hours [a WISE course]
Description	[Syracuse University IST 775] Issues in converging information industry sectors such as hardware, software, telecommunications, information services, and content. Online asynchronous delivery.
Prerequisites	Departmental approval.
LIS590X03	Managing Info Systems Projs [Managing Information Systems Projects]
Credit	3 GR hours [a WISE course]
Description	[Syracuse University IST 645] Covers the issues necessary for successful management of information systems projects. Technical and behavioral aspects of project management are discussed. Major topics include managing the project adoption issues such as selection and approval of projects and requirements analysis; planning for systems development and estimation; scheduling and implementation issues such as project organization, implementation, and control; project closure. Course objectives are 1) to enable students to understand issues in the management or development of real-world information and telecommunications systems, and 2) to develop project management skills and experience that will be transferable to students' professional lives.
Prerequisites	Departmental approval.
LIS590X04	Electronic Commerce
Credit	3 GR hours [a WISE course]
Description	[Syracuse University IST 642] Companies and customers are discovering the potential impact of the Internet and the Web as powerful strategic assets. Businesses are reengineering their processes to respond to the increased demand for the efficient collection and dissemination of information. This course explores business concepts, opportunities, challenges and strategies related to electronic commerce. Electronic commerce (EC) is the use of information technology in conducting economic transactions and managing businesses over computer networks. Starting with an introduction to electronic commerce, it examines the new opportunities and threats that are appearing online. Different business models in the electronic environment will be discussed. It will also cover the ways organizations are building relationships with customers as well as serving them. In sum, this course will attempt to relate EC strategies to a firm?s strategic information management and analyze the organizational fit between strategy and technology from a business perspective. To reach these goals, we will engage in case discussions that address recent real world examples.
Skill	Uses an interactive teaching method, which requires extensive preparation, participation, and involvement from the students.
Prerequisites	Departmental approval.
LIS590X06	Creat Manag Presrv Dig Assets [Creating, Managing and Preserving Digital Assets]
Credit	3 GR hours [a WISE course]
Description	[Syracuse University IST 677] Issues and trends in transferring analog and paper-based collections (including manuscripts, photographs, videos, and films) into digital collections. Online asynchronous delivery.
Prerequisites	Departmental approval.
LIS590X07	Technology Issues in Archives
Credit	3 GR hours [a WISE course]
Description	[University of wisconsin-Milwaukee L&I SCI 891] This course explores technology issues facing archivists today, addressing technology and its uses in collection management, arrangement and description, reference, digitization, and electronic records. Online asynchronous delivery.
Prerequisites	Departmental approval.
LIS590X08	Managing Acad Info Enterprise [Managing the Academic Information Enterprise]
Credit	3 GR hours [a WISE course]
Description	[University of Maryland LBSC 708K / INFM 718C] Using the college/university environment as an example, the purpose of this course is to identify the many information resources needed to support each of these areas, to review existing organizational structures developed to manage these resources, and within this review to examine the role of the CIO. Students will identify and explore management issues within the context of the academic enterprise. Online asynchronous delivery.
Prerequisites	Basic management course [e.g., LIS 505]. Departmental approval.
LIS590X09	Poetry for Children and YAs [Poetry for Children and Young Adults]
Credit	3 GR hours [a WISE course]
Description	[Rutgers University 17:611:545] This course is designed to assist teachers and librarians in selecting, evaluating, and encouraging the informed enjoyment of poetry written for children and young adults in the twentieth century. The semester will cover a variety of poetic forms, including ballads, haiku, and lyrics, a comparison of anthologies published in the past three decades, African-American poetry, the children's poetry by noted poets such as Richard Wilbur, Randall Jarell, Theodore Roethke and Robert Graves, among other aspects of poetry. Assignments will include readings, developing lesson plans and/or web pages to support poetry in the curriculum, illustrating a poem and significant participation in a web-based discussion. While the coursework will not privilege any specific ideological/critical methodology, it will teach and require familiarity with a broad vocabulary of basic terms and poetic devices. Online asynchronous delivery.
Prerequisites	Departmental approval
LIS590X10	Marketing and PR for Libraries [Marketing and Public Relations for Libraries]
Credit	3 GR hours [a WISE course]
Description	[University of Pittsburgh LIS 2830] In this time of decreased funding, information professionals need to become highly visible in order to compete for their market share and available funds. Information managers will be called upon to generate revenue and effectively market their product. This course will introduce LIS students to the variety of marketing techniques that are employed in all types of successful organizations. It will also teach students how to conduct a community analysis to determine the needs of the potential users and to develop a marketing plan for their organization. Students will be able to tailor the projects to their individual specialization (public, academic, special, archives, school). Other issues will include public relations, customer service, and development. Online asynchronous delivery. May also include an optional on-campus meeting in Pittsburgh.
Prerequisites	Departmental approval.
LIS590X11	Designing the PL of the Future [WISE Libraries: Designing the Public Library of the Future]
Credit	3 GR hours [a WISE course]
Description	[Syracuse University IST 600] This online course seeks to provide students with the knowledge, resources, and skills to participate in the design of a public library. It will foster new connections between schools and encourage the sharing of ideas by including two or three students from each of the WISE members. Students will explore the future of public libraries and librarianship through readings from a variety of disciplines, collaborative assignments, and hands-on design exercises. They will attempt to answer the questions: * What will make up the information world of 2030? * What does the future hold for the public library? * What is the public library of 2030 going to look like? Online asynchronous delivery.
Prerequisites	Departmental approval.
LIS590X12	Fairy Tales as Literature [Does the Shoe Fit? Fairy Tales as Literature for Children]
Credit	3 GR hours [a WISE course]
Description	[Rutgers University 611:561] In this course we will look deeply at the complications and complexities of fairy tales. Among other things we will examine the definitions, histories, and variations of fairy tales. Additionally, we will investigate how fairy tales have been used to instruct and entertain children. Finally, we will consider how children's literature creators interpret and re-interpret fairy tales. Online asynchronous delivery.
Prerequisites	Departmental approval.
LIS590X13	Archival Outreach: Prog & Srvs [Archival Outreach: Programs and Services]
Credit	3 GR hours [a WISE course]
Description	[University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee L&I SCI 778] This class is designed to give students a chance to explore in greater detail two closely related core archival functions. The ultimate goal of preserving archival records is so that they can be used for administrative, historical, or other purposes. Providing effective reference service ensures that researchers will be able to locate the information they are seeking. Outreach is the means by which archivists make their holdings and services known to potential researchers. Through a combination of readings, class discussions, and a series of short assignments, students will better understand how reference and outreach compliment one another and how each is applied in various types of archival repositories. Online asynchronous delivery.
Prerequisites	Departmental approval.
LIS590X14	Feminism, Libnship & Info [Feminism, Librarianship and Information]
Credit	3 GR hours [a WISE course]
Description	[University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee L&I SCI 891] Examines the nature of librarianship as a profession, issues related to information, and practices of information services from gendered perspectives using applicable feminist theoretical interpretations. OBJECTIVES: Upon completion of the course a student will better understand the gendered construction: 1) of librarianship as a profession, 2) of the philosophy and practices of library and information work, and 3) of information as a global entity. S/he will also be able to apply feminist theoretical concepts to information use and service. Online asynchronous delivery.
Prerequisites	Departmental approval.
LIS590X15	Publishing for the Profession [Seminar in Contemporary Issues:Publishing for the Profession]
Credit	3 GR hours [a WISE course]
Description	The health of any profession depends on the vigorous exchange of news, knowledge, and ideas, and today the field of library and information science (LIS) is especially vibrant. Libraries and their services are evolving, adapting to new technologies and user needs. Information issues are reaching across disciplines and communities and touching people everywhere, inside and outside the library. By writing about library and information subjects, we can support our profession and reach out to our communities. We can share, inform, and advocate. There's plenty to write about and plenty of publishing venues, in print and online. In fact, there are more professional publishing opportunities available to us today than ever before: professional journals & newsletters, weblogs & discussion lists, magazines & newspapers. To maintain the richness and relevancy of their content, many of these publications depend on the work of authors, editors, reviewers, other contributors. If you like to write and have something to say about LIS, this is a great time to start developing your ideas, sharing your work, and building your own portfolio of publications.
Prerequisites	Departmental approval.
LIS590X16	Child Lit Goes to the Movies [Children's Literature Goes to the Movies]
Credit	3 GR hours [a WISE course]
Description	[Rutgers University 17:611:581] Examines the interpretive structures of American children's movies based on children's literature: how literal fidelity relates to creative license (i.e., adaptation versus translation); how evolving understandings of race, gender, ethnicity and age affect filmic interpretation and presentation; if a book's theme or core narrative can be divided from the cultural, ideological and political influences that constitute its identity; how successful children's films of the past impose upon the presentation of new works; does knowledge of the original book enrich the experience of going to the movie (and does the movie enrich one's understanding of the original book), or are movie and book are essentially separate. Films we will study will include: The Little Mermaid, Snow White, Cinderella, Aladdin, Pinocchio, I Am the Cheese, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, Matilda, Alice in Wonderland, The Wizard of Oz, The Fellowship of the Ring, Jumani, Shrek, several versions of Little Women. Students will be required to read the literature and view the films (readily available from popular video outlets).
Prerequisites	Departmental approval.
LIS590X17	Globalization & Info Society [Globalization & the Info Society: Info, Communication & Development]
Credit	3 GR hours [a WISE course]
Description	[Syracuse IST 600] An advanced graduate seminar, which is an initiative of the Collaboratory on Technology Enhanced Learning Communities (http://cotelco.syr.edu) at Syracuse SIS. Currently involves participants registered at universities in the United States, South Africa, and around the world. The approach to the seminar is to use synchronous and asynchronous learning techniques to break the boundaries of space, time and distance. Using a geographically?distributed computer supported collaborative learning (CSCL) pedagogical model, the seminar employs a suite of web-based tools to create a highly interactive, globally networked collaborative learning environment. Within this learning environment, seminar participants explore the socio-economic, political and cultural implications of globalization and the on-going development of a knowledge-based Information Society. The seminar takes a global multi-stakeholder approach, with particular emphasis on the responses to these issues from the perspectives of Africa, the developing world, and the civil society sector.
Prerequisites	Departmental approval.
LIS590X18	Info Svcs for Specific Pops [Information Services for Specific Populations]
Credit	3 GR hours [a WISE course]
Description	[University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill INLS 739] Service, professional, and administrative issues related to information access by nontraditional information service users; the course examines trends, public policy, ethical issues, programming, and evaluation of services.
Prerequisites	Completion of a basic reference course. Departmental approval.
LIS590X19	Building Literate Communities [Building Literate Communities in the 21st Century]
Credit	3 GR hours [a WISE course]
Description	[Syracuse IST 600] This course examines the critical need for and process through which key community institutions, such as libraries, can collaborate to build communities in which all adults and families have basic literacy or English-language skills. Libraries, businesses, schools, cultural institutions, community-based organizations, churches, and health-service providers all have a stake in the development of literate families, workers, and community members. Understanding the challenge of limited literacy and the strength of collaborative work will help librarians be effective community partners and effective service providers. The course will emphasize practical application of content in library settings.
Prerequisites	Departmental approval.
LIS590X20	Information Visualization
Credit	3 GR hours [a WISE course]
Description	[University of Pittsburgh LIS 2970] Information visualization takes advantage of powerful human visual processing capabilities to extract meaning from real-world and abstract visual representations. This course focuses on the visual design, structure, and organization of information as applied to library and information environments. The emphasis is on user and task-centered design for developing and evaluating visualization-based tools for digital libraries, information retrieval, and web applications. Topics include visual literacy, theories of visual perception and cognition, visualization models (e.g. hyperbolic trees, treemaps), visualization applied to information types (e.g. images, maps, text), data graphics, and usability research. Practical work with various visualization technologies will be included.
Prerequisites	Departmental approval.
LIS590X21	Info for an Aging World
Credit	3 GR hours [a WISE course]
Description	[Univerity of Pittsburgh LIS 2970] This course will focus on collection development, reference, and education services for older adults, and their professional and family caregivers. The course will cover the critical evaluation of materials in print, non-print, and electronic formats, and a discussion of information services provided by healthcare organizations, community agencies, medical center and hospital libraries,public libraries which serve an aging population, and academic libraries serving students in the helping professions. This course is especially appropriate for those interested in working in medical and public libraries, healthcare organizations, community agencies, and academic libraries which students intending careers in the helping or service professions, especially in fields that focus on older people.
Prerequisites	Departmental approval.
LIS590X22	Int'l Issues & Innovations [International Issues and Innovations]
Credit	3 GR hours [a WISE course]
Description	[University of British Columbia LIBR 562] The goal of this course is to provide students with a broad understanding of library development and services throughout the world. Students will learn the issues and problems facing the development of libraries within their socio-economic and cultural contexts and will become acquainted with the successes and/or failures of various approaches to these issues. As North American librarianship is addressed in other SLAIS courses, most attention will be given to library development in other regions.
Prerequisites	Departmental approval.
LIS590X23	Books & Boys in the School Yrs [Man of Advantage: Books & Boys in the Middle and High School Years]
Credit	3 GR hours [a WISE course]
Description	[Rutgers University 17:610:591] Mark Twain famously said that "the man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them." In this course we will consider the reading interests of boys and young men aged ten to eighteen, develop criteria for evaluating books for this audience, and explore the challenges unique to maintaining their interests in literature. We will examine the voices of boys and men who have told their own stories and consider books of particular interest to middle and high school males. This course is a seminar; there will be heavy emphasis on reading and discussions.
Prerequisites	Departmental approval.
LIS590X24	Museum Archives
Credit	3 GR hours [a WISE course]
Description	[University of Pittsburgh LIS 2225] Overview of the evolution of the purposes of museums; history and development of museum record keeping systems, with particular emphasis on changes in those systems in transition from paper-based to electronic records, use of functional analysis to identify principle functions of museums and to guide the appraisal of records that document those functions.
Prerequisites	Departmental approval.
LIS590X25	Seminar in Recs Mgmt Genealogy [Seminar in Archives and Records Management: Genealogy]
Credit	3 GR hours [a WISE course]
Description	[San Jose State University Libr 284] In-depth study of current issues and practices in providing library reference services to genealogists. The course addresses reference tools, collection development, community and referral sources, Internet usage and information seeking behavior of patrons conducting genealogical and biographical research.
Prerequisites	Departmental approval.
LIS590X26	From Seuss to Sendak to Sis
Credit	3 GR hours [a WISE course]
Description	[Rutgers University 17:611:544] This course will study the development of children's book illustration in the work of three masters of the twentieth century. You will explore the picture books of Dr. Seuss, Maurice Sendak, and Peter Sis, considering issues such as the use of history made by each illustrator and his concern for social context, the relationship of image to text and of illustration to a linear narrative, and repeating motifs and symbols that join individual publications into an organic whole. Students in the course will be divided into groups which will explore the three illustrators; this exploration will include a look at work by other important 20th century contemporaries such as Hillary Knight, Mitsumasa Anno, and Quentin Blake. The final weeks of the semester will be a conference period during which the groups will share some of the papers they have written and together discover how different perceptions, research, and group dynamics led to alternate hypotheses about these three masters.
Prerequisites	Departmental approval.
LIS590X27	Contemporary Academic Libnship [Contemporary Academic Librarianship]
Credit	3 GR hours [a WISE course]
Description	[Syracuse Uiversity IST 600] This course examines 21st century academic libraries (community college, college and university) within the context of higher education, scholarly communication and the world of contemporary publishing including issues related to the library?s social, political and legislative environments; managerial and administrative principles and practices including staff organization and supervision, fiscal and legal responsibilities, clientele/constituents, typical and unique services (ex. social networking, information literacy) and collections, physical and virtual settings, marketing and public relations; leadership; advocacy (within higher education and external to the organization); information technology; operational and strategic planning; evaluation and assessment; managing change; community, collaboration and partnerships; and, current issues (ex. development, the competitive academy) and future trends in academic libraries.
Prerequisites	Departmental approval.
LIS590X28	Svcs to Diverse Communities [Services to Racially and Ethically Diverse Communities]
Credit	3 GR hours [a WISE course]
Description	[San Jose State University Libr 275] This course focuses on developing skills for planning, implementing, and evaluating programs and services for addressing the information needs of racially, ethnically, linguistically, and culturally diverse communities. Reviews the major national, state, and local studies.
Prerequisites	Departmental approval
LIS590X29	The Voice of the Author
Credit	3 GR hours [a WISE course]
Description	[Rutgers University 17:611:582] In this graduate seminar you will read works by and about a half dozen children's authors, paying special attention to the authors' own statements about the creative process. We will consider the work of authors including Cynthia Leitich Smith, Chris Crutcher, and Julius Lester, among others. During the semester, authors Smith, Crutcher, and Lester will enter the online discussion with the class for one week each. Sessions: this course is offered online asynchronously.
Prerequisites	Departmental approval
LIS590X30	GLBTIQ Resources & Services
Credit	3 GR hours [a WISE course]
Description	[San Jose State University Libr 220--Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender, Intersex, and Queer/Questioning (GLBTIQ) Resources and Services] This class will explore library services and resources as they relate to GLBTIQ (Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender, Intersex, and Queer/Questioning) communities and their support systems. We will discuss various library operations and services within the context of LGBTIQ issues and concerns as well as examine and evaluate key publications and other information resources in the field.
Prerequisites	Basic classes in information retrieval, management, and reference
LIS590X31	Politics, Power, and Prize.
Credit	3 GR hours [a WISE course]
Description	[Rutgers] Focuses on the modern phenomenon of book awards for Children's Literature. Though Children's Literature has struggled to be perceived as a legitimate field of literary scholarship, this course will show-in the history and context of American Literature-how Children's Literature has historically honored or marginalized various kinds of published works. Will observe Children's Literature's critical awareness of this marginalization and follow newly founded awards established to honor multiculturalism. Analyzes the universal appreciation of Children's Literature expressed by all the award foundations and the intertextual nature of award-winning Children's Literature and look at the powerful politics of the award. Throughout the course, students will not only develop critical skills for reading, thinking, and writing about Children's Literature and culture in America, but also create connections to the context of international literature and culture. To foster these goals, assignments will include writing analytical papers, participation in class discussions, projects, and presentations.
Prerequisites	Departmental approval
LIS590X32	Archivists--Meet Web 2.0 [Seminar in Archives and Records Management: Archivists--Meet Web 2.0]
Credit	3 GR hours [a WISE course]
Description	[San Jose State University LIBR 284] Web 2.0 is here. Organizations and individuals can-and do-create, share and store information in a variety of web-hosted packages: Google docs, blogs, wikis, Flickr, Facebook, Twitter, and more. What does Web 2.0 mean for archivists and how should the profession respond? Take this course to explore the opportunities and challenges presented by the increasing use of online technologies within organizations and society and to consider the implications for archival theory and practice. By the end of this course, you will be able to: 1) Describe a variety of Web 2.0 technologies that may be employed by organizations and individuals, 2) Analyze, assess, and embrace the opportunities and challenges presented by Web 2.0 technologies, 3) Describe the impact the use of such technologies on archival theory and practice, and 4) Develop a case study of an archival institution that has come to embrace the opportunities and challenges presented by Web 2.0 technologies.
Prerequisites	Departmental approval
LIS590X33	Gaming in Libraries
Credit	1 GR hour
Description	[Syracuse University IST 600 73087] See the YouTube course introduction and description at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bNq5GecZ8gk This one-credit month-long course is an exploration of gaming in libraries hosted on YouTube with supplemental academic work in the iSchool learning management system. The course is funded by the WISE+ initiative and supported by the American Library Association.
Prerequisites	Departmental approval
LIS590X34	Female Historical Narratives [Female Voices in Historical Narratives]
Credit	3 GR hours [a WISE course]
Description	[Rutgers University 17:611:543] From picture books to teen novels, from history to folktale, this course will examine the voices of women and girls as they tell their own stories and as stories are told about them. We will work from a list of titles, most published within the past five years, and will read and discuss some of them together and some of them as individual projects. The emphasis in the course will be on reading widely and on intense engagement with the texts. Students will have the opportunity to create book lists, booktalks, and/or Web pages to explore their interpretations of this literature.
Prerequisites	Completion of a basic reference course. Departmental approval.
LIS590X35	Knowledge Management
Credit	3 GR hours [a WISE course]
Description	[Simmons College LIS 465] This course introduces information professionals to the basics underlying the KM function--the organization and dissemination of the information that an organization already owns. Seventy-five percent of the course will address KM from a management perspective and the remainder will introduce the document management issues that the elective courses listed below will further develop. Various aspects of managing KM will be covered such as its link to organizational strategy, costs, benefits, standards, and professionals' roles. Also, operational components will be introduced, including taxonomies, thesauri, indexes, and the retrieval of textual information. Case studies are included.
Prerequisites	Completion of a basic reference course. Departmental approval.
LIS590X36	Intell Property Search on Web [Res & Info Svcs: Patents & Intellectual Prop Searching on Internet]
Credit	3 GR hours [a WISE course]
Description	[San Jose State University Libr 220] The course covers intellectual property searching in all types of libraries and information centers. Special emphasis will be given to U.S. patent and trademark information, publications and databases, their organization, use in libraries and methods of searching including by inventor, owner, and subject of invention. International patents and trademarks will also be covered, particularly as they relate to U.S. intellectual property. Copyright, trade secret, and other areas of intellectual property will be covered as they relate to our main topic: patents and trademarks.
Prerequisites	Completion of a basic reference course. Departmental approval.
LIS590YL	Youth, Literature, and Culture
Credit	4 hours.
Description	This interdisciplinary course focuses on scholarship in children's and young adult literature; storytelling and folklore in the oral tradition; text and young reader interactions in multiple literacies; and relationships with youth in libraries, schools, families, and other settings. Questions that we will consider include the following: How does knowledge in the form of oral, print, and electronic texts shape, reflect, and enrich the lives of children and young adults? How do stories, books, visual media, and popular culture cross boundaries of age level, culture, class, history, time, place, format, and meaning? How do we understand connections between young readers/users and texts/information? How is literacy affected in the transitions between traditional and electronic environments? How have youth specialists, both individually and as a community, influenced the history of writing, illustrating, and publishing for children and young adults?
Prerequisites	Doctoral student in any appropriate discipline.
LIS591	Practicum
Credit	2 GR hours
Description	Supervised field experience of professional-level duties in an approved library or information center. A maximum of 2 hours may be applied toward a degree program. Approved for S/U grading only.
Prerequisites	Completion of 14 graduate hours of library and information science courses. Submission of Practicum Forms: http://www.lis.uiuc.edu/courses/practicum/students.html . CRN provided after submission of completed, signed form.
LIS592	Independent Study
Credit	2 to 4 GR hours. May be repeated by M.S. student to maximum of 4 hrs, C.A.S. to max of 8 hrs, Ph.D. to max of 16 hrs
Description	Permits the intermediate or advanced student opportunity to undertake the study of a topic not otherwise offered in the curriculum or to pursue a topic beyond or in greater depth than is possible within the context of a regular course.
Prerequisites	Submission of "Request to Enroll in LIS 592" form: www.lis.uiuc.edu/courses/pdfs/592form.pdf CRN provided after submission of completed, signed form.
LIS593	CAS Project
Credit	0 to 8 hours.
Description	Individual study of a problem in library or information science; forms the culmination of the Certificate of Advanced Study program. Only 8 hours will apply to the CAS degree.
Prerequisites	Admission to Certificate of Advanced Study (CAS) program in LIS. Submission of "Request to Enroll in LIS 593" form: www.lis.uiuc.edu/courses/pdfs/593form.pdf
LIS599	Thesis Research
Credit	M.S. 0 to 8 hours; Ph.D. 0 to 16 hours. May be repeated.
Description	Individual study and research for thesis and dissertation.
Prerequisites	MS students must submit a "Request to Enroll in LIS 599 - Master's Thesis" form: www.lis.illinois.edu/courses/pdfs/599form.pdf

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