LS 5003. Collection Development. Introduction to
collection development, evaluation, selection criteria, and tools. Discussion of
community analysis, censorship, library standards, and the publishing industry.
Three lecture hours a week. Credit: Three hours.
LS 5013. Information Storage and Retrieval Systems. Identification
and analysis of components of information systems; principles and techniques for
classifying and representing items; information storage models; questions and
information need analysis; operation of manual and automated systems; evaluation
of information systems. Three lecture hours a week. Credit: Three hours.
LS 5103. Cataloging and Classification. Standard descriptive and subject
cataloging of library materials; theory and practice of classification schemes;
technical services operations; use of on-line data bases in cataloging and
technical services. Three lecture hours a week. Prerequisite: LS 5013. Credit:
Three hours.
LS 5133. Indexing and Abstracting. Theory and techniques of indexing
journal literature, books, newspapers; data base production; survey of commercially
available products; theory and techniques of preparation of abstracts, annotations,
and other condensed versions of documents. Three lecture hours a week. Credit: Three
hours.
LS 5143. Technical Services. Budgeting, acquiring, organizing, recording
and servicing material of all types; investigation of current practices and future
possibilities. Three lecture hours a week. Credit: Three hours.
LS 5213. Information Sources in Business. Study of literature,
information sources and services, and bibliographical aids in various fields of
business such as marketing, advertising, finance, banking, management, accounting,
insurance, corporate statistics; consideration of business library operations. Three
lecture hours a week. Credit: Three hours.
LS 5233. Multimedia Resources and Services. Existing and emerging
multimedia information technologies with emphasis on the design, production, and
organization of multimedia resources for classrooms, libraries, media centers, and
network-accessible information sites. Three lecture hours a week. Credit: Three hours.
LS 5253. Electronic Information Resources in the Health Sciences. Survey
course of electronic information resources in the health sciences including online
command driven systems, menu driven systems, and CD-ROM products. Three lecture
hours a week. Credit: Three hours.
LS 5263. Reference. Survey of reference tools; terminology, techniques,
and concepts of modern reference service; utilization of data bases in the reference
process. Prerequisite LS 5013. Three lecture hours a week. Credit: Three hours.
LS 5303. The Public Library. Background of modern American public
library; organization and administration; philosophy; services for types of patrons
with special needs; performance measures; regional and state development; federal and
state aid programs; current trends. Three lecture hours a week. Credit: Three hours.
LS 5313. The College and University Library. Administrative principles
and practices as applied to college and university libraries. Standards, services,
materials, personnel, budget, quarters, reports, and statistics. Three lecture hours
a week. Credit: Three hours.
LS 5323. The Special Library. History, theory of special library
management; organization; management of special materials; relationship of librarian
to staff, clientele, upper management; standards of special librarianship. Three
lecture hours a week. Credit: Three hours.
LS 5333. School Library Media Center. Philosophy, management and
planning of resources, personnel, programs, and facilities; budgeting; collection
building; instructional design; services to students and teachers; program evaluation;
public relations. Three lecture hours a week. Credit: Three hours.
LS 5343. Youth Programs. History, philosophy, and objectives of library
service to youth; organization and administration; emphasis on programming and service
with special attention to multicultural needs of today’s youth; techniques of
booktalking and storytelling. Three lecture hours a week. Credit: Three hours.
LS 5353. Human Resource Management in Libraries. Designed for potential
supervisors and chief librarians; management techniques in recruitment, selection,
development, promotion, appraisal of library employees. Three lecture hours a week.
Credit: Three hours.
LS 5363. Health Sciences Information Services. History and development of
the health sciences information environment; structure, functions, and service
patterns; administrative and technical problems. Health sciences literature;
information needs, resources, and reference services; networks; trends. Three lecture
hours a week. Credit: Three hours.
LS 5373. Fiscal Management in Libraries. Budgeting, accounting, payroll
management, vendor relations, purchasing, standards and specifications, accountability,
insurance, energy management, security, proposals. Three lecture hours a week. Credit:
Three hours.
LS 5383. Library Management. Administrative theory, organizational
planning, leadership styles, decision-making, problem solving, operations research,
management information systems, other aspects of the management process applied to
libraries. Three lecture hours a week. Credit: Three hours.
LS 5403. Automation in the Library. Uses of computers for managing
library data bases and information systems; comparison of approaches to library
automation; design, evaluation, and selection of automated systems. Three lecture
hours a week. Credit: Three hours.
LS 5413. Systems Analysis and Design for Libraries. Analysis of
actual or simulated library systems; their evaluation and the design of replacement
systems. Three lecture hours a week. Credit: Three hours.
LS 5433. Microcomputer Applications in Libraries. Use of microcomputer
and applications software for the library. Methods for managing the computer in the
library; utilization of an integrated software package. Additional topics include
software and hardware evaluation, the design of computer-appropriate facilities,
setting up and configuring computer systems. Three lecture hours a week. Credit:
Three hours.
LS 5443. Librarians as Instructional Partners. Learning and libraries;
the role of the librarian and resource-based learning within the curriculum; the
librarian as a teaching partner, team member, and instructional consultant.
Learning theory and educational issues as they apply to cooperative planning, and
implementation projects designed to improve information literacy and scholastic
achievement. Three lecture hours a week. Credit: Three hours.
LS 5453. Information Systems and Networks. Growth and development of
information systems and networks; various patterns of organization, administration,
finance and standards of service; the role of state and federal agencies, and
legislative programs. Three lecture hours a week. Credit: Three hours.
LS 5463. Medical Specialties and Specialized Information Resources.
Survey of medical specialties, subspecialties, and special topics with
corresponding examination of relevant information resources. Includes traditional
print resources as well as electronic information resources. Three lecture hours a
week. Credit: Three hours.
LS 5473. Health Reference Information Sources and Services. Survey of
health care reference resources, terminology, tools, techniques, and services in a
variety of library and health care settings. Emphasis on selection, organization,
use, and evaluation of print, multimedia, and electronic resources for provision of
health-related reference service. Topics include health communication models,
reference service models, information seeking behaviors and problems of healthcare
professions, education and training for use of health information resources and
ethical considerations in health information provision. Trends and issues in
health reference service in the electronic environment. Three lecture hours a
week. Credit: Three hours.
LS 5483. Consumer Health Information Resources. History and
development of consumer health information resources; role of professional and
governmental agencies in provision of consumer health information; policy issues
related to provision of consumer health information. Consumer health professional
literature, use information needs, user resources, and information services.
Identification, selection, utilization, and evaluation of consumer health
information for special populations within specialized educational and healthcare
settings. Trends and issues in consumer health informatics. Three lecture hours a
week. Credit: Three hours.
LS 5513. Online Information Retrieval. Creation and distribution of
machine readable data bases; organization of commercial search systems; query
languages; search strategies; search aids; search evaluation; management of online
services in libraries and information centers. Three lecture hours a week. Credit:
Three hours.
LS 5523. Multicultural Librarianship. Indentification and selection
of materials appropriate for diverse cultures; services and programs in school and
public libraries. Three lecture hours a week. Credit: Three hours.
LS 5553. Electronic Information Retrieval.Use of electronic resources to
access and manage information. Includes online systems, CD-ROM systems, and
software packages. Basic course. No prerequisite. Three lecture hours a week.
Credit: Three hours.
LS 5563. Advanced Online Searching. Information retrieval concepts,
principles, techniques, and relevant cost management and support tools for
information-handling intermediaries. Focus on skill development of latest
features of Dialog, techniques and strategies for searching specific areas, i.e.,
patents, chemical information, and citation searching. Introduction to Data Star
searching. Three lecture hours a week. Credit: Three hours.
LS 5573. The Internet. Concepts, principles, and techniques associated
with identifying and using information resources via the Internet; standards and
protocols; browsers and search engines; classification and indexing issues;
distribution of information. Three lecture hours a week. Credit: Three hours.
LS 5603. Juvenile Literature. Survey of literature and reference
materials for children and young adults. Emphasis on reading interests,
professional evaluation, educational uses, and readers' advisory. Three lecture
hours per week. Credit: Three hours.
LS 5613. Literature for Children. Modern and traditional literature;
recognized authors and illustrators; evaluating materials; factors that influence
children’s reading; using materials with children; selected readings in
professional literature. Three lecture hours a week. Credit: Three hours.
LS 5623. Literature for Young Adults. Selection and evaluation of
media meeting interests, needs and abilities of young adults in a contemporary,
pluralistic society; techniques of reading guidance; emphasis on current issues;
individual study project required. Three lecture hours a week. Credit: Three hours.
LS 5633. Art of Storytelling. Examination of folk literature of
world cultures as a source of materials for storytelling; storytelling techniques
including selection of materials, preparation, and presentation; planning story
hours and other folk literature based programs. Three lecture hours a week. Credit:
Three hours.
LS 5643. Literacy Programs in Libraries. Role of libraries in promoting
literacy. Particular emphasis upon public library family literacy programs, the
emergent literacy process, government programs, workplace literacy, ESL literacy
programs, and cultural literacy. Planning and proposal development for literacy
programs, including needs assessment, goal setting, and evaluative methods. Three
lecture hours a week. Credit: Three hours.
LS 5723. Seminar: Advanced Cataloging. Advanced work in descriptive
and subject cataloging, with study of current developments including automated
techniques. Study of Library of Congress and other classification schemes.
Prerequisite: LS 5103 or equivalent. Three lecture hours a week. Credit: Three
hours.
LS 5743. Workshop. Special problems in librarianship. Each workshop
concentrates on a particular area, such as library building, adult services,
library management and school library collections and use. Three lecture hours per
week. Credit: Three hours. May be repeated for additional 3 to 9 hours of credit.
LS 5813. The Information Professions.Information and the communications
model; communications technologies, past, present, and future; the professions and
professional development; cultural change and the history of information transfer;
preserving freedom of access to information. Three lecture hours a week. Credit:
three hours.
LS 5843. Practicum. Professionally supervised work experience in
approved school, public, university, or special libraries. One-hundred and twenty
hours of work experience (may be waived if student has had equivalent work
experience). Credit: Three hours.
LS 5901. Special Topics. An organized class for the study of a
particular area or subject not offered in another scheduled course. One lecture
hour a week. Credit: One hour. May be repeated for credit when the specific topic
of investigation varies.
LS 5903. Special Topics. Investigation under faculty direction of
special topics of particular interest to the individual student. Three lecture
hours a week. Credit: Three hours. May be repeated for additional three to nine
hours of credit.
LS 5911. Individual Study. Individual study of topics in
librarianship, research, or information science selected in accordance with
student’s interests and needs. Prerequisite: Permission of instructor. Credit: One
hour.
LS 5913. Individual Study. Credit: Three hours.
LS 5953. Cooperative Education. Cooperative work-study arrangements
between the University, business, industry, or selected institutions appropriate
to the Library Science graduate program. Job assignments are made on the basis of
student interests, skills, and degree program. The student will apply the ideas
and processes learned in other courses in practical experience under cooperative
supervision. Cooperative planning and evaluation are essential elements in the
course. For three hours of credit, 15-20 hours per week are required. Credit may
not be applied toward degree program.
LS 5973. Professional Paper. Credit: Three hours.
LS 5983. Thesis. Credit: Three hours.
LS 5993. Thesis. Prerequisite: LS 5983. Credit: Three hours.
LS 6001. Colloquium in Library and Information Studies. Discussion of
current issues and research in librarianship and information studies. Three
enrollments in this course are required of doctoral students. One lecture hour a
week. Credit: One hour.
LS 6003. Theory of Communication. Analysis and study of general
models of communication; the roles of mass media and libraries in the total
information process. Three lecture hours a week. Credit: Three hours.
LS 6013. Education for Librarianship. History and objectives,
curricula, methods of instruction, trends and problems in library education at all
levels. Each student plans and teaches a unit in a master’s or baccalaureate level
library science course. Three lecture hours a week. Credit: Three hours.
LS 6043. The Scholarly Career. The nature of scholarly careers; the
professional service role in the context of teaching and research; academia as a
subculture and subsociety; information resources relevant to understanding
scholarly careers. Three lecture hours a week. Credit: Three hours.
LS 6373. Research and Issues in Library and Information Systems.
Examination of foundation and newly evolving theories and issues in library and
information systems such as system structure, database analysis, relevance
criteria, subject classification development, information technology design
principles, and integration of information systems. In select semesters, it will
meet around an appropriate conference at which time conference attendance will be
required. Three lecture hours a week. Credit: Three hours.
LS 6383. Research & Issues in Management. Examination of foundation and
newly evolving theories and issues in library and information management and
administration such as organizational structure, personnel services, policy
development, and fiscal matters. In select semesters, it will meet around an
appropriate conference at which time conference attendance will be required.
Three lecture hours a week. Credit: Three hours.
LS 6393. Research and Issues in Libraries and Information with a Cultural
Context. Examination of foundation and newly evolving theories and issues in
social, cultural, and educational aspects of library and information services such
as user needs, user education, development of the information professions, and
service models. In select semesters, it will meet around an appropriate conference
at which time confernece attendance will be required. Three lecture hours a week.
Credit: Three hours.
LS 6403. Professional Presentations and Publishing. Analysis of scholarly
communications and professional writing activities, including publishing reviews,
journal articles, and monographs. Market analysis, submissions, editing,and
planning of professional presentations for conferences and workshops; evaluating
performance. Three lecture hours a week. Credit: Three hours.
LS 6623. History of Children’s Literature. Development of literature
for children, chiefly in England and America, from the earliest times, including
an analysis of children’s books and reading as part of changing social and cultural
patterns. Prerequisite: LS 5613. Three lecture hours a week. Credit: Three hours.
LS 6633. Materials and Services for Very Young Children. Research and
theories of early childhood development as related to materials selection and
provision of services for very young children; evaluation and assessment of
effectiveness of collections and services; simulation of professional
presentations; observations of school and public library services for very young
children. Prerequisite: LS 5613 or 5623 or permission of instructor. Three lecture
hours a week. Credit: Three hours.
LS 6643. Nonfiction for Children and Young Adults. Rationale and
principles for selecting and using informational books and media that complement
school curricula in grades K-12. Emphasis on methods of evaluation, role of
nonfiction in the development of lifetime readers, curricular uses for
informational books and media, and library programming with nonfiction materials.
Prerequisite: LS 5603, 5613, or 5623, or permission of instructor. Three lecture
hours a week. Credit: Three hours.
LS 6753. Research Methods. Methods and techniques of research
applicable to problems in library and information studies. Three lecture hours a
week. Credit: Three hours.
LS 6723. Critical Inquiry in Information Analysis. The platform course
for the doctoral program. Review of approaches to formulated research questions,
developing analytic frameworks and examining critical theories. Applies this
review to information analysis on the cultural, social, system, and individual
levels. Three lecture hours a week. Credit: Three hours.
LS 6733. Action Research in Information Issues. Builds on the
prerequisite courses to move from theory to application and dissemination. Applied
research in a library or information setting. Institutional evaluation,
informational needs analysis, impact studies, and other site-based, applied
research techniques. Prerequisities: LS 6023 and two approved research methods
courses. Three lecture hours a week. Credit: Three hours.
LS 6903. Special Topics. Investigation of topics or problems in
librarianship by advanced graduate students under the direction of a professor.
Credit: Three hours. May be repeated for additional three to nine hours of credit.
LS 6911. Individual Study. Individual study of topics in
librarianship, research, or information sciences selected in accordance with
student’s interests and needs. Prerequisite: Permission of instructor. Credit: One
hour.
LS 6913. Individual Study. Independent reading and research by
advanced graduate student. Credit: Three hours. May be repeated for additional
three to nine hours of credit.
LS 6983. Dissertation. Prerequisite: Permission of major professor.
Restricted to doctoral students. Credit: Three hours. May be repeated for
additional three to nine hours of credit.
LS 6993. Dissertation. Prerequisite: Permission of major professor.
Restricted to doctoral students. Credit: Three hours. May be repeated for
additional three to nine hours of credit.
