Digital Collections (KM/LIS 5990) wlll focus on designing and developing digital collections, so it's quite a bit more specific than KM/LIS 5433 (which covers a variety of web-based information services, depending on student interests). The focus will be on creating one or more digital collections, depending on how many students enroll in Tulsa and Norman. However, please note that, as an introductory survey class, there will be a lot of collection-oriented theory along the way: this is not simply a workshop in how to use ContentDM or OMEKA collection management software!
The official catalog description will eventually 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.
Specific topics will include:
If this is of interest to you, I'd be very happy to have you in the class. :)