Fall 2008:
Considering taking "Digital Collections" in Fall 2008? Here's a first look!
Digital Collections (LIS 5990) wlll focus on designing and developing digital collections, so it's quite a bit more
specific than 5433 (which covers a variety of web-based information services, depending on student interests). It will also be a hybrid course:
we'll be having several hands-on sessions in both Norman and Tulsa, but most of the semester will be online only. The focus will be on creating one or more libraries, depending on how many students enroll in Tulsa and Norman.
The official catalog description should read something like this:
Introduction to the creation and development of digital collections and to the technical requirements for storage and dissemination of digital materials. Topics will include creation, development, organization, maintenance, and use of digital collections. Students will employ a variety of techniques and technologies for digitizing materials, evaluate the strengths and limitations of current efforts in creating, collecting and organizing digital materials, and explore the different opportunities and challenges of digital libraries, institutional and subject repositories, and archives.
If this is of interest to you, I'd be very happy to have you in the class. :)
Spring 2008:
I am again teaching KM/LIS 5553: Competitive Intelligence. Last year's syllabus will be changed slightly to emphasize
the "reinventing relevance" aspect of this subject for LIS students: watch for it! Please note that Jerry P. Miller's book, Millennium Intelligence, is recommended but not required for this class.
In addition, I am teaching the Tulsa section of KM/LIS 5033: Information and the Knowledge Society. (Hint: here's a little something to read and a a little something to watch
to give you some hints about how we approach these topics.) Please note that there is NOT a required textbook: assigned readings will come from the classic and contemporary professional literature.
