Digital Librarianship Development & Evolution of a Graduate Course Dr. Peter Jacso Professor Department of Information and Computer Sciences University.

Digital LibrarianshipDevelopment & Evolution

of a Graduate Course

Dr. Peter Jacso Professor

Department of Information and Computer Sciences

University of Hawaii, USA

CONSAL Conference

March 28, 2006Manila

PowerPoint: Judit Tiszai

• Independent, stand-alone course

• 8th time (see courses)

• Relatively high enrolment

• Some master students from other programs

• Some doctoral students from Comm, Inf, Pol

• 15-week regular or 3-week intensive, ~40 contact hours

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OVERVIEW

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• Digital Librarianship vs. Digital Libraries• The librarians’ involvement

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SCOPE

Resource Discovery Tools

(advanced)

Digital Resources

(highest quality)Resource Creation

(elementary)

Major components

Digital contents

• ready ref sources (encyclopedias, dictionaries, almanacs)

• large journal archives (ScienceDirect, Blackwell, ACM DL)

• OA repositories, e-books, e-nything

CONTENT (see syllabus)

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CONTENT (see syllabus)

Major components

• Technology

• Tools and rules (protocols) for creation and cooperation

• Roles of publishers, libraries and other orgs

• Social, economic, management and legal issues

• Subject guides and directories

• Search, multi-search, meta-search engines, proxy search

• Interoperability, metadata, Xchange

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• Intertwined: discovery, resources, creation

• Students’ work in groups

• Evaluation of a mix of digital collections

• Instructor’s & former students’ model for evaluation

• Webliography on widely relevant topic

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DELIVERY (see schedule)

DELIVERY (see schedule)

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Assignments

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• Articles from ProQuest & Ebsco

• UH digital journal archives

• Individuals’ preprint collections

• Conference paper archives

• Hot-linked recommended sites

• Digital notebooks

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DIGITAL READING & STUDY MATERIALS (see readings)

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• Not enough time, new topics & services

• Frantic pace using non-traditional resources

• Splitting into basic and advanced?

• Channeling more topics to existing courses?

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ISSUES