LSC 521: Public Library Service
Fall, 2005 |
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Date |
Topic |
Assignment due |
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Sept 13 |
History and philosophy |
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Sept 20 |
Marketing and community analysis: Who uses the public library? |
Essay on public library
philosophy (Portfolio 1) |
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Sept 27 |
Governance and planning: Mission and goals, organization and policies |
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Oct 4 |
Finance: taxes, endowments, and grants, with an emphasis on
grant-writing |
Presentations due
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| Oct 11 |
Public services: programming, outreach, and PR |
Presentations due
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Oct 18 |
Intellectual access: collection and connectivity
Reader’s advisory services
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Presentations: make-up date
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Oct 25 |
Services to special populations
Adult literacy |
Grant proposal: first draft, for review
(needed on time) |
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Nov 1 |
Space and Cyberspace: Library Facilities |
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Nov 8 |
Disasters and opportunities; preservation,
conservation
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Grant proposals: critiques (needed on time)
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Nov 15 |
Networking and consortia |
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Nov 22
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Cyberservices |
Grant proposal: final
draft (may be extended until Nov. 29, please ask) |
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Nov 29 |
Evaluation, accountability, and annual reports: Another look at PR |
Portfolio |
Dec 6 |
Planning again: The great library of the future |
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