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Using Resources and Writing Papers (self-study module)
Digital Libraries (a series of brief readings)
Job Seeking (ALA site)
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Course Offerings Summer 2008-Spring 2009
Summer 2008
(Classes begin Tuesday, May 27, 2008 [Session A] and Monday, June 30, 2008 [Session B])
NOTE: Summer online classes will meet via eLearning Vista 4.2. The URL for access is: http://vista.csus.ct.edu . Use your MySCSU credentials to login. Documentation is available to download and use as reference.
Anticipated Fall 2008
(Classes begin Tuesday, September 2, 2008)
- ILS 244 S7W Use of Information Sources (9/2/08-12/11/08)
- ILS 518 S70 History of Books and Printing (9/2/08-12/5/08)
- ILS 680 S70 Evaluation and Research (9/2/08-12/5/08)
Anticipated Wintersession 2009
(Classes begin Monday, January 5, 2009)
- ILS 597 S70 Introduction to Archival and Museum Work (1/05/09-1/23/09)
Anticipated Spring 2009
(Classes begin Monday, January 26, 2009)
- ILS 537 S70 Information-Seeking Behavior (1/26/09-5/1/09)
- ILS 655 S70 Digital Libraries (1/26/09-5/1/09)
- ILS 680 S71 Evaluation and Research (1/26/09-5/1/09)
Course Descriptions
The range of media, technology and services available to students in the modern library is examined and applied.
This is a W-course, which requires a minimum of 20 pages of writing and work on improving writing content and style.
This course is a critical study of literature for children and includes the study of folklore, poetry, fiction and non-fiction. This course includes a discussion of child development as it relates to literature, and the child as reader. This course fulfills one of the GE requirements for SCSU in the W/L-course category.
This course is offered in both Summer Session A and Summer Session B. This is the same course that is offered during the Fall and Spring semester, it is just compressed. It is very important to keep up with the reading and writing schedule. The course moves quickly and students who keep up with the schedule have been very successful whether the course is taken in the Fall or Spring (15 weeks) or Summer (5 weeks). ILS 518 History of Books and Printing
The development of the book in its many forms in relation to contemporary society, education, and culture. Manuscript origins, the nature and development of the printing process, the reading public, the book trade, binding, and book illustration. If you want to explore how the human race has recorded its culture through the book from before printing to the electronic age, this course is for you. We will also look at the book through the eyes of the reader and as a tool of society. As the former owner of a small press, Dr. Brown has first hand knowledge of the book, including handpress/letterpress and eastern and western binding.
In a course on information behavior (older and narrower term is information seeking behavior), one should expect to study information-seeking theories, methods of observing or researching information behavior, and findings about user behaviors. This course will also touch on a bit of the cognitive mechanisms for acquiring, storing, and using information. By the end of the course, students should gain an understanding of the generalized information behaviors of different groups of people, impact of information environments on information behaviors, and the implications of cognitive functions on design of information services. The relevant literature for this course comes from library and information science, psychology, communications, and marketing.
If the ultimate purpose of recording, distributing, and storing information and artifacts is for future retrieval and use of their informational content, then the information behavior of the individual, generalizable groups, and the artifacts themselves, are--or should be--of primary concern.
In this course you will interact with and learn from the literature, as well as begin to make contributes to the literature yourself.
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What you don't know has power over you; knowing it brings it under your control, and makes it subject to your choice. Ignorance makes real choice impossible. Abraham Maslow, 1963
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Beyond obsessions, curiosity, and creativity, lies a host of motivations not to seek information. David Johnson, 1997
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An introduction to work in archives and museums including basic theories and methodologies and to the application of archival and museum theory in the digital world.
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ILS 655 Digital Libraries
Theoretical study of and practice in designing, constructing and evaluating digital libraries.
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Principles and methods of evaluation and research are systemically reviewed. Major research undertakings are considered, as well as landmark studies. This is a capstone course that fulfills one of the requirements for th Master of Library Science degree.
The purpose of this course is to give the student 1) basic research skills so that they can conduct competent research and 2) an opportunity to make a contribution to the field based on the knowledge they have gained in their master's program.
Work in this course may be used to satisfy the university's Special Project requirement for a graduate degree.
Study of the techniques, management, and assessment of exhibit work, and theories supporting those techniques including exhibit and education theory.
This course will prepare librarians to curate and create exhibits in their libraries by teaching the basic background and skills needed for exhibit work including exhibit and education theory; kinds of purposes of, and theme of exhibits; exhibit budgets and other administrative aspects; exhibit design and development; exhibit prototyping and evaluation; accessibility; conservation; exhibit labels; exhibit fabrication; and publicity and programming for exhibits. Instruction will emphasize the practice of exhibit skills, relying on lectures only for a brief introduction of topics. Students will follow the exhibit process to design and develop an exhibit. In some cases, the exhibit will be able to be fabricated and possibly displayed by the end of the course; in the case of large or costly exhibits, concentration will be on the design and prototyping only
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Texts for Summer 2008 courses
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List-Handley, C. J. (2008). Information literacy & technology (4th ed.). Dubuque, IO: Kendall/Hunt Publishing. ISBN: 978-0-7575-4676-1
Required text
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Butler, F. (1989). Sharing Literature with Children (reissue of 1977.). Prospect Heights, IL: Waveland Press. ISBN: 0-88133-463-4
Required text
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Pan, M. Ling. (2008). Preparing literature reviews: Qualitative and quantitative approaches (3rd ed.). Glendale CA: Pyrczak Publishing. [ISBN 1-884585-76-0]
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Publication manual of the American Psychological Association (latest edition). Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.
Required text
Texts for Fall 2008 courses
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List-Handley, C. J. (2008). Information literacy & technology (4th ed.). Dubuque, IO: Kendall/Hunt Publishing. ISBN: 978-0-7575-4676-1
Required text
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Reader; ISBN: tba
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Finkelstein, D., & McCleery, A. (2005). An introduction to book history. Routledge . [ISBN: 0415314437]
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Olmert, M. (2003). The Smithsonian book of books (reissue ed.). Smithsonian Books. [ISBN: 089599030X]
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Pan, M. Ling. (2008). Preparing literature reviews: Qualitative and quantitative approaches (3rd ed.). Glendale CA: Pyrczak Publishing. [ISBN 1-884585-76-0]
Required text
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Publication manual of the American Psychological Association (latest edition). Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.
Required text
Students who prefer to live on campus during the January winter session or summer session can make arrangements through Southern's Department of Residence Life (1-203-292-5870 or -5869). The cost is approximately $165 for the week (room only).
NOTE: A public bus goes from the Southern's campus (near overpass) to The Green (Yale's main campus); from there it is a short walk to museums, galleries, libraries, restaurants, art centers.
Other courses Dr. Brown has taught:
Graduate: Evaluation and Research, Action Research, Information Seeking Behavior, Information Architecture, Introduction to Archival and Museum Work, Library Exhibits, Library Management, Library Personnel Management, Digital Libraries, Programming for Libraries, Abstracting and Indexing, Introduction to Information Science and Technology, Introduction to Librarianship, Science-Technology: Literature and Sources
Undergraduate: Literature for Children, Use of Library sources, Introduction to Information Science, Media Production, Internet Resources and Management, Information Service Technology, Book Trade, Technical Services, Cognitive Psychology
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Photograph by Kathy Wilson
June 2006
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The best way to contact Dr. Brown is through email at Brownm6@SouthernCT.edu. The next best way to contact Dr. Brown is to call the department office at (203) 392-5781 or toll free at (888) 500-SCSU, then press 4.
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