The Introduction to Library and Information Studies will meet on Saturdays,
from 9am until Noon on September 2, 16, 30, October 14, 28, November 11, and
December 2.
Class sessions will often be scheduled at other libraries, including the El
Paso Public Library, El Paso Community College, various school libraries, and
various special libraries including a law library and the Texas Tech Health
Sciences Resource Center. Class locations are given on the schedule.
An orientation to library organization, types of libraries, classification
systems, library terminology, duties of library personnel, history of libraries,
and current issues in library service, with particular emphasis on intellectual
freedom issues, technological resources, and the rol of the Internet and the
"virtual library" in the Information Age.
Course Rationale
This course is designed to give the graduate student in library and information
science an overview of the field, and to assist the student in identifying a specific
area of interest within the field, and to assist the student in identifying a
specific area of interest within the field. Students will also discuss how today's
library and other information centers remain a focal point for providing organization
and access to the vast stores of information now available to us, whether in priint,
media, or computerized and electronic formats.
Course Objectives
- To familiarize students with the practices of different types of libraries:
academic, public, school, and special.
- To familiarize students with the organization of libraries and the duties
of library personnel.
- To provide s tudents with a basic understanding of library classification
systems and terminology.
- To explore current issues related to information access, intellectual freedom
and library service.
- To provide studwents with the ability to find materials through library
public access catalogs and the Internet.
- To familiarize students with the work of library associations on the local,
state, and national level.
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