REQUIRED TEXTS FOR SUMMER 2008
ALTERNATIVE TERMS: ONE WEEK
Course |
Course Title
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Texts |
LSC 517 |
Community
Relations for Libraries |
Required Textbook: Woodward, Jeannette. Creating the Customer-Driven Library. American Library Recommended Textbook: Siess, Judith A. The Visible Librarian. American Library Association, 2003. |
| LSC 527 | Information Literacy Instruction for Librarians |
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ALTERNATIVE TERM: TEN WEEKS (MAY 21 - JULY 26, 2007 )
Course |
Course Title
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Texts |
| LSC 505 | Organization of Information | Required Textbooks: Ma, Yan. (Current). LSC505 Course Package. [It has to be purchased at or from the Rhode Island Book Company]. Taylor, Arlene. (2006). Introduction to Cataloging and Classification (Rev. 10th ed.). Englewood, Colo.: Libraries Unlimited. ISBN 1591582350 Recommended Textbooks: Furrie, Betty. (2003). Understanding MARC. (5th ed.). Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress. Free at: http://www.loc.gov/marc/umb/ Maxwell, Robert L. (2007). Maxwell's Handbook for AACR2: Explaining and Illustrating the Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules and the 1993 Amendments. Any Publishers. ISBN 0838907040. |
LSC 508 |
Introduction to Information Science & Technology
|
Required texts: Courtney, N. (2007). Library 2.0 and Beyond. Innovative Technologies and Tomorrow's user. Westport, CT: Libraries Unlimited. (ISBN: 1-59158-537-6) Williams, R., & Tollett, J. (2006). The Non-Designer's Web Book. Third Edition. Berkeley, CA: Peachpit Press. (ISBN:0-321-30337-7) Optional texts: Beekman, G., & Quinn, M. J. (2008). Tomorrow's Technology and You, Complete. Eighth Edition. New York: Prentice-Hall. (ISBN: 0132297205) Norton, M.J. (2000). Introductory Concepts in Information Science. New York: Information Today, Inc. (ISBN: 1573870870)
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| LSC 514 | Information Policy | Required Textbook: Braman, Sandra (2006). Change of state: Information, policy, and power. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press. (ISBN 978-0-262-02597-3) |
| LSC 528 | Instructional Technology in Library and Information Services |
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| LSC 540 | Humanities Information and Mateials | |
| LSC 548 | Information Architecture | Required Textbooks: Rosenfeld, L., & Morville, P. (2006). Information Architecture for the World Wide Web. Third edition. Sebastopol, CA: O'Reilly & Assocciates. (ISBN: 0-596-00035-9) (Table of Contents) Stielow, F. (1999). Creating a Virtual Library. New York: Neil-Schuman Publishers, Inc. (ISBN: 1-55570-346-1) (Table of Contents) Williams, R., & Tollett, J. (2000). The Non-Designer's Web Book. Second edition. Berkeley, CA: Peachpit Press. (ISBN: 0-321-30337-7) (Table of Contents) |
| LSC 557 | Research & Evaluation in LIS | Required Textbook: |
ALTERNATIVE TERM: EIGHT WEEKS (MAY 21 - JULY 9, 2007 )
Course |
Course Title
|
Texts |
LSC 504 |
Reference &
Information Services |
Required Textbooks:
Cassell, Kay Ann and Uma Hiremath. (2006) Reference and Information Services in the 21st Century: An Introduction. Neal-Schuman Publishers: New York ISBN: 9781555705633 Mann, Thomas. (2005) Oxford Guide to Library Research. Oxford University Press: New York. ISBN: 9780195189988 Recommended/Optional Textbooks: Bopp, Richard and Linda C. Smith. 3rd rev. edition. (2000) Reference and Information Services. Libraries Unlimited ISBN: 9781563086243 Janes, Joseph. (2003) Introduction to Reference Work in the Digital Age. Neal-Schuman Publishers: New York. ISBN: 9781555704292 |
TERM II (JUNE 25 - JULY 26, 2007 )
Course |
Course Title
|
Texts |
LSC 502 |
Management of Library
& Information Services |
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| LSC 503 | Collection Development | |
| LSC 520 | School Library Media Services | AASL and AECT. Information Power: Building Partnerships for Learning. Chicago: ALA, 1998. (ISBN: 0838934706) Callison, Daniel and Leslie Preddy. The Blue Book on Information Age Inquiry, Instruction and Literacy. Westport, CT: Libraries Unlimited, 2006. (ISBN: 1-59158-325-X) Eisenberg, Michael B. and Robert E. Berkowitz. The Definitive Big6 Workshop Handbook. Third Edition. Ohio: Linworth, 2003. (ISBN: 1586831593) Wong, Harry and Rosemary Wong. How to be an Effective Teacher: The First Days of School. Harry K. Wong Publications, Inc.2004. (ISBN: 0-9629360-6-5). |
| LSC 530 | Reading Interests of Children |
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| LSC 533 | Digital Resources for Children and Teens | |
| LSC 597 | Multicultural Literature for Children and Youth |
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