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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
