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200-Level Courses
LIS201	Information, Technology, and Organizations
Credit
Description
Prerequisites
LIS212	Computing in the Humanities [now 310]
Credit	3 hours.
Description	Use and application of computers to scholarly activity in the humanities, such as projects that put classic texts on the web or create multimedia applications on humanities topics. Students also learn about agreements that facilitate computer-based cooperation and their impact on humanities scholarship, and computers and writing, and related topics.
Prerequisites	Sophomore, junior or senior standing.
LIS220	The Design of Usable Information Interfaces [now 351]
Credit	3 hours
Description	Examines issues of human-computer interaction and the design of better computer interfaces. Students review interfaces to a number of different information systems to gain an understanding of the challenges and trade-offs in good design. The course involves practical interdisciplinary team work in designing, testing, and improving interfaces.
Prerequisites	Permission of instructor, and junior or senior standing; preference given to registered ITS minors.
LIS230	Cognitive Psychology of Information Systems [now 352]
Credit	3 hours
Description	Introduction to research and theory in human cognition including: perception, attention, pattern recognition, representation of knowledge, language, problem solving, reasoning, and learning. Emphasis is on the relationship of these processes to computer models and implications of this body of knowledge for building information systems. Students will conduct a series of brief studies of current information systems and report on the strengths and weaknesses of the system in relation to human cognitive ability, along with recommendations for the redesign of these information systems.
Prerequisites	junior or senior standing.
LIS250	Special Topics in Information Studies [now 390]
Credit	1 to 3 hours. May be repeated in same or separate semesters as topics vary to a maximum of 12 hours.
Description	Directed and supervised investigation of selected topics in information studies that may include among others computers and culture; information policy; community information systems; production, retrieval and evaluation of scientific or social science knowledge; computer-mediated communication; and computer-supported cooperative work.
Prerequisites	Sophomore standing
LIS250BSI	Business, Social Science and the Internet [now 390 BSI]
Credit	3 hours
Description	[Request submitted for permanent no. LIS 211] A hands-on introduction to understanding and using business and social science information, especially that which is available on the Internet. The course covers general issues concerning use of the Internet as a source of information, including the evaluation of information reliability, and of search and retrieval techniques. Students will also gain an awareness of issues of business and social science information production, distribution, organization, and use.
Prerequisites	LIS 201 or LIS 202, or permission of instructor. Restriction: Students may not take both LIS 250 BSI and LIS 250 G.
LIS250EMT	Emerging Technologies [now 390 EMT]
Credit	3 hours
Description	The course is designed for undergraduate students who are interested in examining various uses of emerging information technologies, as well as identifying and assessing their social impacts. The course sessions will include guest lectures, computer-based activities, demonstrations, and discussions. Possible student projects could include evaluation of the use of such emerging technologies and research on these technologies, specific to their majors or interests.
Prerequisites	sophomore, junior or senior standing.
LIS250G	Science and the Internet [now 390 G]
Credit	3 hours
Description	[Request submitted for permanent no. LIS 210] A hands-on introduction to understanding and using scientific information, especially that which is available on the Internet. The course covers general issues concerning use of the Internet as a source of information, including the evaluation of information reliability, and of search and retrieval techniques. Students will also gain an awareness of issues of information production, distribution, organization, and use in science.
Prerequisites	LIS 201 or LIS 202, or permission of instructor. Restriction: Students may not take both LIS 250G and LIS 250 BSI.
LIS250MSI	Music and Sound as Information [now 390 MSI]
Credit	3 hours
Description	The advent of multimedia computing has awakened interest in the representation, manipulation, and use of both music and sound as part of our everyday lives. This introductory course will examine the wide variety of methods used to create, record, represent, modify, and present music and sound information. Basic acoustics, major notation schemes, and formats such as streaming audio, mp3, WAV, and MIDI, are explored with an eye toward learning how music and sound fit into our information universe.
Prerequisites	LIS 201 or LIS 202 and junior or senior standing, or permission of instructor. Students should have basic computer skills
LIS250MUI	Museum Informatics [now 390 MUI]
Credit	3 hours
Description	Covers information organization and access in museums, exploring the relationship between information technology and modern museum environments. Students learn about classification systems for museums, computer systems for information storage and retrieval, universal access to shared electronic data, copyright in the digital world, virtual museums, interactive exhibits, and information management in museums, through lectures, computer-based activities, and interactive discussions. The final project involves design of an electronic portfolio of virtual museum resources. Students are encouraged to approach class topics from their individual backgrounds in the humanities, sciences, or social sciences.
Prerequisites	sophomore, junior or senior standing.
LIS250PIO	Principles of Information Organization [now 390 PIO]
Credit	3 hours
Description	An introduction to the principles of information organization and access, including indexing and cataloging, with examples of how these concepts are applied in different environments and formats. The course explores the information needs of various communities and how certain organizations provide access or services that meet these needs.
Prerequisites	sophomore, junior or senior standing.
LIS250RGI	Race, Gender and Information Technology [now 390 RGI]
Credit	3 hours
Description	This course examines how gender and race affect, and are affected by, information technologies. Race and gender representations will be studied in different settings as they intersect with information use and technology practices. The course is framed by two broad, interrelated concepts -- the expression of identity (individual and group) in cyberspace and the "digital divide." The course readings are drawn from several disciplines and an eclectic array of in-class and out-of-class projects and exercises will be assigned.
Prerequisites	Sophomore, junior or senior standing.
LIS250W1A	Web Technologies and Techniques [now 390 W1A]
Credit	3 hours
Description	This course provides an introduction to the technologies behind the Web. Topics covered include: hypertext, hypermedia, the history of the Web, the role of Web standards and their impact on the development of Web resources. The course introduces principles of Web design and usability. Students will gain an understanding how the Web works and how to design, construct, evaluate, and maintain Web-based materials. [Same as LIS 250 W1B]
Prerequisites	sophomore, junior or senior standing.
LIS250WBT	Web Based Training [now 390 WBT]
Credit	3 hours
Description	In this Web-based course, students will explore how business and educational institutions use the Internet to deliver innovative training and instruction. The course will address pedagogical, theoretical, practical, and other issues involved in Web-based instruction. Students will participate in synchronous activities such as lectures and chatroom discussions and asynchronous activities such as Webboard discussions and reading course-related material. Students also will have an opportunity to evaluate Web-based training modules and tutorials. This course is offered in a distance learning format. Classes do not take place on campus, but instead through the Internet.
Prerequisites	Open to sophomores, juniors, seniors.

300-Level Courses
LIS301	Bibliography [now 511]
Credit	3 hours, or 1/2 or 1 Unit
Description	Covers enumerative bibliography, the practices of compiling lists; analytical bibliography, the design, production, and handling of books as physical objects; and historical bibliography, the history of books and other library materials, from the invention of printing to the present.
Prerequisites	Consent of Instructor
LIS303	Literature and Resources for Children [now 403]
Credit	3 hours, or 1/2 or 1 Unit
Description	Evaluation, selection and use of books and other resources for children (ages 0-14) in public libraries and school media centers; explores standard selection criteria for print and nonprint materials in all formats and develops the ability to evaluate and promote materials according to their various uses (personal and curricular) and according to children's various needs (intellectual, emotional, social and physical).
Prerequisites	Junior or Senior Standing, or Consent of Instructor
LIS304	Literature and Resources for Young Adults [now 404]
Credit	3 hours, or 1/2 or 1 Unit
Description	Evaluation, selection and use of books and other resources for young adults (ages 12-18) in public libraries and school media centers; explores standard selection criteria for print and nonprint materials in all formats and develops the ability to evaluate and promote materials according to their various uses (personal and curricular) and according to young adults' various needs (intellectual, emotional, social and physical).
Prerequisites	Junior or Senior Standing, or Consent of Instructor
LIS308	Audiovisual Services in Libraries
Credit	3 hours or 1 unit
Description	Designed to acquaint students with the nonprint media responsibilities of libraries; includes the evaluation, selection, and acquisition of software and hardware, the utilization of media in various types of libraries (by individuals and groups, in formal and informal programs), and the administration of integrated media collections (films, recorded sound, video, and exhibits).
Prerequisites	Junior or Senior standing or consent of instructor
LIS309	Storytelling [now 409]
Credit	3 hours, or 1/2 or 1 Unit
Description	Fundamental principles of the art of storytelling including techniques of adaptation and presentation; content and sources of materials; story cycles; methods of learning; practice in storytelling; and planning the story hour for school and public libraries, recreational centers, the radio, and television.
Prerequisites	Junior or Senior standing and consent of instructor
LIS315	Introduction to Network Information Systems [now 451]
Credit	4 hours or 1 unit
Description	Hands-on introduction to technology systems for use in information environments. The course steps students through choosing, installing, and managing computer hardware and operating systems, as well as networking hardware and software. Students will have an opportunity to design and create a working network environment as part of the course work. Field trips required. Details in syllabus.
Prerequisites	LIS student. NON-LIS students and juniors or seniors must get permission of instructor to enroll.
LIS316	Instruction and Assistance Systems [now 458]
Credit	3 hours, or 1/2 or 1 Unit
Description	Provides an introduction to instruction and assistance methods used in a variety of information systems including libraries, archives, museums, and electronic environments. Includes an overview of theoretical and applied research and discusses relevant issues and concepts. Students will have an opportunity to design and present an instruction or assistance program.
Prerequisites
LIS317	Foundations of Data Processing in Library and Information Science [now 452]
Credit	4 hours, or 1/2 or 1 Unit
Description	Covers the common data and document processing constructs and programming concepts used in library and information science. The history, strengths and weaknesses of the techniques are evaluated in the context of our discipline. These constructs and techniques form the basis of applications in areas such as bibliographic records management, full text management and multimedia. No prior programming background is assumed.
Skill	basic Unix
Prerequisites
LIS329	Information Storage and Retrieval [now 456]
Credit	3 hours or 1 unit
Description	Introduces problems of document representation, information need specification, and query processing. Describes the theories, models, and current research aimed at solving those problems. Primary focus is on bibliographic text and multimedia records.
Skill	basic Unix; basic HTML
Prerequisites
LIS350	Advanced Special Topics in Information Studies [now 490]
Credit	1 to 4 hours, or 1/2 to 1 unit. May be repeated as topics vary to a maximum of 12 hours or 2 units.
Description	Directed and supervised investigation of selected topics in information studies that may include among others the social, political, and historical contexts of information creation and dissemination; computers and culture; information policy; community information systems; production, retrieval and evaluation of knowledge; computer-mediated communication. See individual sections for descriptions of the topics.
Prerequisites	Junior or senior standing and LIS 201 or LIS 202, or consent of instructor.
LIS350AR	Designing Universally Accessible WWW Resources [now 490 AR]
Credit	3 hours or 1 unit
Description	Introduction to the concepts of designing web based materials to be more accessible to people with disabilities. Participants need to have experience in developing and publishing web materials. Students will learn how web browsing is different for people with disabilities and how to use W3C standards to create materials that are not only more accessible to people with disabilities, but make it easier for all people to access web materials. Students will test major authoring tool support for acessible design and review the capabilities of various evaluation and repair tools to help determine the accessibility problems of current web resources and to improve their accessibility. Students will work in small groups to evaluate and improve the accessibility of an existing web-based course at Illinois.
Skill	Have created and maintained web pages.
Prerequisites	junior, senior or graduate student, and consent of instructor; web design skills and experience (i.e., created and maintained web pages).
LIS350GK	Technology-Supported Inquiry Environments for Learning and Teaching [now 490 GK]
Credit	3 hours, 1/2 or 1 unit
Description	The seminar is for students who are interested in the use of computer-based modeling, scientific visualization, and informatics to support inquiry in science and mathematics education. The sessions will include guest lectures from education faculty as well as faculty in the sciences, mathematics, engineering, and technology disciplines; computer-based activities; and discussions on readings. As part of the seminar, students will receive training in technology-supported inquiry environments, such as Inquiry Page (http://www.inquiry.uiuc.edu), as well as opportunities to collaborate with each other and interested teachers on projects.
Prerequisites	Junior, senior or graduate student standing.
LIS350KN	Visualizing and Navigating Knowledge Networks [now 490 KN]
Credit	3 hours or 1 unit (1 unit requires extra work)
Description	Examines the state of the art in visualizing and navigating a variety of networks, including social and knowledge networks. Major topics include representation, visualization, navigation and utilization of knowledge networks. Students will read about relevant models and approaches from network analysis, human computer interaction and computer graphics. Interdisciplinary student design teams will work on projects involving specific networks and problems, and learn and evaluate existing visualization environments including headmounted displays, large 2D (wall) displays, and 3D CAVE. The teams will study the available computational tools and software, and prototype new tools for visualization and knowledge navigation. For more information, see: http://leep.lis.uiuc.edu/spring03/lis350kn/index.html
Prerequisites	Permission of instructor. Eligible students should demonstrate familiarity with 1+ of: network analysis, programming methodologies, graphic design, human perception and cognition, statistics, computer vision, computer speech analysis, computer graphics, and human computer interaction.
LIS350LEI	Legal and Ethical Information Issues [now 490 LEI]
Credit	3 hours
Description	Considers legal issues such as privacy, copyright, intellectual and academic freedom, and censorship, from the U.S. and an international perspective. Ethical situations covered include the distribution, use, and possession of information that might harm others. This class is for undergraduates and beginning graduate students who are interested in learning about such issues as they apply to a wide variety of social and cultural contexts.
Prerequisites	junior or senior standing.
LIS350MUI	Museum Informatics [now 490 MU]
Credit	3 hours or 1 unit.
Description	Covers information organization and access in museums, exploring the relationship between information technology and modern museum environments. Students learn about classification systems for museums, computer systems for information storage and retrieval, universal access to shared electronic data, copyright in the digital world, virtual museums, interactive exhibits, and information management in museums, through lectures, computer-based activities, and interactive discussions. The final project involves design of an electronic portfolio of virtual museum resources. Students are encouraged to approach class topics from their individual backgrounds in the humanities, sciences, or social sciences. There will be additional assignments required of graduate students.
Prerequisites	Junior, senior or graduate student standing.
LIS350NET	Evolution of the Net:Info Infrastructure from the Telephone Network to the Global Mind [now 490 NT]
Credit	3 hours or 1 unit
Description	Discusses the technologies of the Net: the global information infrastructure. "infra" means "internal" and "structure" means "support". Information infrastructure is the underlying protocols that enable users worldwide to interact with information. Throughout history, improved technologies have increasingly supported deeper structures, to enable user interaction to become closer to cyberspace visions of "being one with all the world's knowledge". The course will discuss in equal parts: the past, the present, the near future, and the far future. Explanations of the workings of underlying technology are given at length, but no technology prerequisites are assumed for the lectures. Students will be required to write essays on both the past and the future, to better appreciate how the lessons of the past guide the realities of the future.
Prerequisites	Junior, senior. MS students may be allowed to enroll on a space available basis--contact the instructor for permission.
LIS350PAR	Participatory Action Research [now 490 PAR]
Credit	3 hours.
Description	Participatory action research (PAR) unites people from all walks of life in identifying, investigating, and taking action on conditions that affect the well-being of local residents. Special attention is given to building on the capacity and knowledge of people who face poverty, discrimination, or other barriers to achieving control over their lives and a voice in public affairs. This course will investigate the theory and practice of PAR, as it has been applied in spheres of life that include the evaluation of educational programs, the development of health services, the improvement of leisure opportunities, and the design of information and communication technologies. Students will collaborate in conducting a local community-based research and action project, as well as have the opportunity to develop their individual research interests.
Prerequisites	Instructor permission is required for anyone wishing to register as a 350 student. Assignments and other course requirements will differ for 350 and 450 students, with 350 being oriented at the undergrad level.
LIS350SE	Search Engines and Information Retrieval Systems [now 490 SE]
Credit	3 hours or 1 unit
Description	This introductory course examines how search engines and other information retrieval systems are put together. By understanding what makes these fascinating systems "tick," students will be in a position to make better use of these important tools. This course will look at present and future search engines, both on and off the Internet, designed to retrieve a wide range of information types, including text, images, sound, and music.
Prerequisites	Junior, senior or graduate student.
LIS350SH	Contemporary Culture and Information Industry [now 490 SH]
Credit	3 hours or 1 unit.
Description	Theoretical approaches to the study of culture and information are used to engage with an extended period in US history. The course examines the rise of the market in cultural and information provision, and situates selected instances of market development within wider processes of social historical development.
Prerequisites	Junior or senior standing. Graduate students must get permission of instructor to enroll.
LIS350TC	Social History of U.S. Telecommunications [now 490 TC]
Credit	3 hours or 1 unit.
Description	This course seeks to provide a broad historical account of a vital producer and consumer service: telecommunications. Its focus is on changing industry structures and public policies, set within the larger historical movement of American society. Experiences of private carrier monopoly, inter-carrier competition, and regulated monopoly are examined; the impact of emergent and sometimes destabilizing technologies, from radio to computer networking, is analyzed; and successive conflicts over the social purpose of telecommunications are scrutinized.
Prerequisites	Junior, senior or M.S. student.
LIS350UMI	Understanding Multimedia Information: Concepts and Practices [npw 490 UM]
Credit	3 hours or 1 unit
Description	This course is designed for those with an interest exploiting multimedia information in web and electronic publishing projects. Students will be introduced to the theory behind, and the tools associated with, a wide variety of audio (e.g., MP3, WAV, WM9, RealAudio), graphic (JPEG, GIF, PNG, etc.), music (MIDI, GUIDO, etc.) and text information formats (e.g., PS, PDF, etc.). After taking this course students should be empowered to make intelligent choices in selecting appropriate mulitmedia formats to match particular design requirements. Enrollment is limited to 25 students. Class will be a mix of lectures, demos and hands-on work. Students should have access to a personal computer upon which they can experiment on their own with downloaded multimedia software tools.
Prerequisites	Junior, senior or graduate student.
LIS350W2A	Web Structures and Information Architecture [now 490 W2A]
Credit	3 hours or 1 unit
Description	This course builds on LIS 250 W1A (or W1B) to explore how Web structures have expanded from simple hypertexts and the informational implications of different Web-enabled activities. Topics covered include: Internet privacy, security/hacking, interactivity on Web pages, Web e-commerce, Web advertising and Web server logs. The course also expands on the issues of Web design introduced in W1A (or W1B). This course will include an introduction to scripting languages (no previous programming experience is assumed).
Prerequisites	LIS 250W1A or LIS 450LW, or consent of instructor.
LIS353	Using Networked Information Systems [now 454]
Credit	3 hours, or 1/2 or 1 Unit
Description	Issues and tools for remote technology-based communication and information systems. Current and historical trends in methods for electronic information dissemination and communication, and their impact on society, organizations and individuals are discussed. Topics include systems, issues and changes in: interpersonal, group, and mass communication; publishing; information access; education, and other areas. Hands-on use and evaluation of currently available network-based communication and retrieval systems.
Prerequisites	LIS 315 or consent of instructor
LIS360	Practicum [now 591]
Credit	3 hours or 1/2 unit.
Description	Supervised field experience of professional-level duties in an approved library or information center. Visit for detailed information.
Prerequisites	Completion of 3.5 units of library and information science courses.
LIS370	Systems Analysis and Management [now 453]
Credit	3 hours or 1 unit
Description	Covers how to evaluate, select and manage the information systems that will be used in the daily operation of libraries and information centers. Includes the systems used by technical staff and the information consumers. Course will focus on information as a product. Attention is given to the operation of an organization as a whole and the impact of change on the integration of resources, work flow and usability. Formal methods for modeling systems, and industry practice techniques of analysis are used to address these problems and opportunities.
Prerequisites
LIS380	Information Organization and Access [now 501]
Credit	3 hours or 1 unit
Description	Emphasizes information organization and access in settings and systems of different kinds. Traces the information transfer process from the generation of knowledge through its storage and use in both print and non-print formats. Consideration will be given to the creation of information systems: the principles and practice of selection and preservation, methods of organizing information for retrieval and display, the operation of organizations that provide information services, and the information service needs of various user communities Required core course to be taken in the student's first semester.)
Prerequisites
LIS390	Libraries, Information and Society [now 502]
Credit	1/2 or 1 unit
Description	Explores major issues in the library and information science professions as they involve their communities of users and sponsors. Analyzes specific situations that reflect the professional agenda of these fields, including intellectual freedom, community service, professional ethics, social responsibilities, intellectual property, literacy, historical and international models, the socio-cultural role of libraries and information agencies and professionalism in general, focusing in particular on the interrelationships among these issues (Required core course to be taken in the student's first semester.)
Prerequisites
LIS391	Literacy in the Information Age [now 491]
Credit	3 hours or 1 unit
Description	[Same as Comm 391.] This seminar explores what it means to be information literate in today's world. Students examine a number of information literacies, from print to multimedia, from stand-alone to networked, and discuss a variety of themes that have been affected by new communication and information technologies, such as community, the political sphere, and education. This course is normally taken as a capstone course in the student's last spring semester for the ITS minor.
Skill	basic HTML
Prerequisites	LIS 201 or LIS 202, or permission of instructor. Registration priority: 1) graduating seniors in the ITS minor; 2) other seniors in the ITS minor; 3) juniors in the ITS minor; 4) graduate students; 5) other juniors and seniors who have the prerequisite, but are not ITS minors.

400-Level Courses
LIS404	Reference and Information Services [now 504]
Credit	1 unit
Description	Explores reference and information services in a variety of settings, introduces widely used print and online sources, and develops question negotiation skills and search strategies.
Skill	basic computing; basic word processing; basic HTML
Prerequisites
LIS405	Administration and Management of Libraries and Information Centers [now 505]
Credit	1 unit
Description	Designed to explore the principles that govern how organizations and institutions work, this course provides a foundation for and introduction to the theories, practices and procedures involved in the management and administration of libraries and information centers.
Prerequisites
LIS406	Youth Services Librarianship: Principles and Practices in School and Public Libraries [now 506]
Credit	4 hours or 1 unit
Description	Theory and techniques in planning, implementing and evaluating library programs/services for youth (Age 0-18) in public and school libraries/media centers; the knowledge base, skills, and competencies needed by the library media professional in the development of all aspects of youg people's reading/viewing/listening and information literacy skills.
Prerequisites	LIS 380 and 390 or consent of instructors.
LIS407	Cataloging and Classification I [now 507]
Credit	1 unit
Description	Theory and application of basic principles and concepts of descriptive and subject cataloging; emphasis on interpreting catalog entries and making a catalog responsive to the needs of users; provides beginning-level experience with choice of entries, construction of headings, description of monographs (and, to a lesser extent, of serial publications and nonprint media), filing codes, Dewey and Library of Congress classification systems, and Library of Congress subject headings.
Skill	basic HTML
Prerequisites
LIS408	Cataloging and Classification II [now 577]
Credit	1 unit
Description	More complex problems in making and evaluating the changing, modern library catalog; practical and administrative problems in cataloging serial publications, analytics, ephemeral materials, and microforms; deals with various nonprint media, rare books and manuscripts, foreign language materials, and materials in special subject areas.
Prerequisites	LIS 407 or consent of instructor
LIS410	Adult Public Services [now 510]
Credit	1 unit
Description	The literature, history, and problems of providing library service to the general adult user; investigation of user characteristics and needs, and the effectiveness of various types of adult services.
Prerequisites
LIS412	Science Information Sources and Reference Services [now 522]
Credit	1/2 or 1 unit
Description	Overview of the information needs and practices of researchers, practitioners, and the general public. Detailed consideration of disciplinary literatures and print and electronic reference materials. Advanced training in addressing reference questions and research problems in the sciences.
Prerequisites	LIS 404 or consent of instructor
LIS413	Social Science Information Sources and Reference Services [now 523]
Credit	1/2 to 1 unit
Description	Overview of the information needs and practices of researchers, practitioners, and the general public. Detailed consideration of disciplinary literatures and print and electronic reference materials. Advanced training in addressing reference questions and research problems in the social sciences.
Prerequisites	LIS 404 or consent of instructor
LIS414	Arts and Humanities Information Sources and Reference Services [now 524]
Credit	1/2 or 1 unit
Description	Overview of the information needs and practices of researchers, practitioners, and the general public. Detailed consideration of disciplinary literatures and print and electronic reference materials. Advanced training in addressing reference questions and research problems in the arts and humanities.
Prerequisites	LIS 404 or consent of instructor
LIS424	Government Publications [now 525 Government Information]
Credit	1 unit
Description	Aims to acquaint students with government publications, their variety, interest, value, acquisition, and bibliographic control, and to develop proficiency in their reference and research use; considers publications of all types and all governments (local, national, international) with special emphasis on U.S. state, and federal governments and on the United Nations and its related specialized agencies.
Skill	basic HTML
Prerequisites	LIS 404 or consent of instructor
LIS428	Library Buildings [now 548]
Credit	1/2 or 1 unit
Description	Studies the library's physical plant in the light of changing concepts and patterns of library service; analyzes present-day library buildings (both new and remodeled) and their comparison with each other, as well as with buildings of the past; examines the interrelationship of staff, collections, users, and physical plant; discussion supplemented by visits to new libraries and conference with their staffs. A two-day field trip is required.
Prerequisites
LIS429	Implementation of Information Storage and Retrieval Systems [now 556]
Credit	1 unit
Description	Types of systems for storage and retrieval of documents and references; their characteristics, evaluation, factors affecting their performance, and the mathematical models on which their operations are based are covered. Primary focus is on modern computer-based systems and their implementation. Students will use programming tools to build demonstration systems and install retrieval packages as part of a case study.
Skill	programming experience; Unix; HTML; PERL
Prerequisites	LIS 317, or proficiency in any programming language (esp. PERL) or consent of instructor. Concurrent or prior to registration in LIS 329 is recommended. Non-LIS students must get instructor's permission to enroll.
LIS430	Architecture of Network Information Systems [now 566]
Credit	1 unit
Description	The principles and practices of designing systems, particularly network information systems. Explores the protocols of the Net, the global information infrastructure. Critical evaluation of current Internet services plus evolution of research architectures towards future Net services, such as the Interspace. Historical survey of functionality of system components. Semester-long design and implementation project required. Familiarity with Internet and commercial on-line information services assumed. Concurrent enrollment with CS 497BRS.
Prerequisites	CS 311 (database management) and LIS 329 (information retrieval), or consent of instructor.
LIS431	Online Information Systems [now 526]
Credit	1/2 or 1 unit
Description	Explores the state-of-the-art in online information systems, with particular emphasis on their use as part of reference service in libraries; acquaints students with the characteristics of both bibliographic and nonbibliographic data bases; and trains students in the use of at least one currently available online retrieval system.
Prerequisites	LIS 404 or consent of instructor
LIS432	History of Libraries [now 512]
Credit	1/2 or 1 unit
Description	Same as Communications 432. The origins, development, and evolution of libraries and related institutions, from antiquity to the twentieth century, as a reflection of literacy, recognition of archival responsibility, humanistic achievement, scientific information needs, and service to society.
Prerequisites
LIS433	Information Needs of Particular Communities [now 530]
Credit	1/2 to 1 unit. May be repeated for a total of 2 units.
Description	In-depth study of the characteristics and information needs of specialist users of libraries; goals and objectives, policies, and services; reference and bibliographical aids; and effective services that satisfy these special needs.
Prerequisites	LIS 412, 413, or 414, or consent of instructor
LIS433A	Music Bibliography [now 530A Music Librarianship & Bibliography]
Credit	1/2 or 1 unit
Description	Explores music librarianship and music bibliography. Identifies and distinguishes different kinds of musical documents in terms of their intended uses, production, historical significance and peculiarities of form and content; surveys the bibliographical record that provides access to musical documents; surveys the different bibliographical research specialties that study the production of musical documents as physical objects; surveys the ways to make generic distinctions in music; describes the range of factual inquiries that arise in our musical communities and assesses the library's resources for answering these inquiries; surveys the deployment of musical documents and artifactual evidence through libraries, archives, museums, and various other repositories; discusses value judgments in music bibliography and librarianship.
Prerequisites
LIS433B	Medical Literature and Reference Work [now 530B Health Sciences Information Services & Resources]
Credit	1 unit
Description	Provides a general introduction to information services and sources which serve the health-related information needs of health care professionals and the lay public. Provides exposure to the tools and services most often encountered in delivery of health-related information, issues and trends in health science library practice, ethical issues in provision of health-related information, and specialized programs and services for all health information consumers.
Prerequisites
LIS433C	Slavic Bibliography [now 530C Russian, East European & Eurasian Bibliog & Research Methods]
Credit	1/2 unit
Description	Provides exposure to the reference sources and bibliography of Russian and Slavic studies. Reading knowledge of Russian required.
Prerequisites
LIS433E	Business Information [now 530E]
Credit	1 unit
Description	A study of the literature, information sources and reference aids in the area of business. Introduces the student to the U.S. business information environment. Examines the impact of the national economy and international trade on U.S. industries and companies and the nature of various business functions within a company in an attempt to understand what business information is needed and how it may be used by individuals within an organization. Provides a general mapping of the variety of external information sources.
Prerequisites
LIS433G	Law (Legal Resources) [530G]
Credit	1/2 or 1 unit
Description	Introduces legal sources used in a variety of library settings, covering both U.S. and state legal resources. Discusses standard print legal sources such as reporters, digests, statutes, legal encyclopedias, and looseleaf services. Explores the use of legal online services such as LEXIS and WESTLAW through extensive hands-on assignments. Analyzes reference and collection development issues related to legal sources.
Prerequisites
LIS433M	Bibliography of Africa [now 530M]
Credit	1/2 or 1 unit
Description	Covers reference books, statistics sources, archives and manuscripts, bibliographies, and the sources for all major disciplines and all sub-Saharan countries. Please visit http://alexia.lis.uiuc.edu/course/fall1998/lis433m/433syllabus.pdf for detailed information. Covers research strategies and reference sources in all formats for major humanities and social sciences disciplines for the continent of Africa.
Prerequisites
LIS434	Library Systems and Networks [now 544 Library Cooperation & Networks]
Credit	1 unit
Description	Development of library systems, with special reference to public libraries as a norm for the development of library services; detailed treatment of library standards, the growth and development of county and regional libraries, and the role of the state library and of federal legislation.
Prerequisites	LIS 405 or consent of instructor
LIS436	Use and Users of Information [now 503]
Credit	1 unit
Description	Explores information needs and uses at a general level, addressing formal and informal information channels, barriers to information, issues of value, and impacts of technology. Examines information seeking practices of particular communities and within various environments, introducing recent approaches to user-centered system design and digital library development. Provides an overview of methods that can be used to study information needs, information seeking behavior and related phenomena.
Prerequisites	LIS380
LIS437	Technical Services Functions [now 578]
Credit	1 unit
Description	Seminar on the principles, problems, trends, and issues of acquiring, identifying, recording, and conserving/preserving materials in all types of libraries and information centers; includes the special problems of serials management; emphasizes service aspects.
Prerequisites
LIS438	Administration of Archives and Manuscripts Collections [now 581 Adm and Use Archival Matls]
Credit	1 unit
Description	Administration of archives and manuscript collections in various types of institutions. Theoretical principles and archival practices of appraisal, acquisition, accessioning, arrangement, description, preservation, and reference services. Topics will include: records management programs, collecting archives programs/special collections, legal and ethical issues, public programming and advocacy, and the impact of new information technologies for preservation and access. Lectures, discussion, internet demonstration, and field trips to the Special Collections Department and University Archives.
Prerequisites	Consent of instructor
LIS441	History of Children's Literature [now 514]
Credit	1 unit
Description	Interpretation of children's literature from the earliest times, including the impact of changing social and cultural patterns on books for children; attention to early printers and publishers of children's books and to magazines for children.
Prerequisites
LIS447	Preservation of Library Materials [now 582 Preserving Info Resources]
Credit	1 unit
Description	Covers the broad range of library preservation and conservation for book and nonbook materials relating these efforts to the total library environment; emphasizes how the preservation of collections affects collection management and development, technical services, access to materials and service to users.
Prerequisites
LIS449	Economics of Information [now 549]
Credit	1 unit
Description	The various definitions of information in economic and social terms as discussed in library and information science, as well as other literatures, are related to government public policies and social policies. Issues such as information as a commodity and as a public good are explored. The impact of the economics of information and related public policies on libraries and information centers is discussed from a national and international perspective.
Skill	basic computing; basic word processing; basic HTML
Prerequisites
LIS450	Advanced Problems in Library and Information Science [now 590]
Credit	1/4 to 2 units
Description	A variety of newly developed and special courses on selected problems in the four curriculum domains of Design and Evaluation of Information Systems and Services, Information Organization and Analysis, Management and Consulting for Information Systems and Services, and Access--People and Collections, offered as sections of 450.
Prerequisites	Consent of instructor
LIS450AHR	Critical Approaches to Historical Research [now 590 AHR]
Credit	1 unit
Description
Prerequisites	Ph.D. student; other graduate students may enroll with consent of instructor.
LIS450ALI	Advanced Legal Issues [now 590 ALI]
Credit	1 unit
Description
Prerequisites
LIS450AMD	Agents and Multi-Agents for Dynamic Information Systems
Credit	1 unit
Description	Provides a thorough introduction to Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AMAS)--a new, widely-used, and rapidly-growing paradigm for networked information systems. The material covers concepts of autonomy, agenthood, and multi-agency; models of coordination, interaction, teamwork, and negotiation among agents; organizational self-design and learning; matchmaking and brokering; case studies of applications in distributed information gathering/management, electronic commerce, human-computer interaction, collaboration support, CSCW, and others. Students who prefer writing and analysis will be able to investigate a broad range of AMAS issues. Students who are oriented toward experimentation will have the opportunity to design, build, and experiment with agents and multi-agent systems using a variety of testbeds and experimental tools. Same as CS 497AMD.
Prerequisites
LIS450BDI	Biodiversity Informatics: From Information to Policy [now 590 BDI]
Credit	1 unit
Description	Biodiversity can be defined as the taxonomic and functional diversity of living things. Biodiversity informatics is the organization study of information about the biodiversity. People This organization this information toward some use. The information might be used to expand general scientific knowledge, to support education or to guide social policy decisions such as land use, conservation, and taxes. In this course, we will examine the history and practice of biodiversity informatics work from 14th century herbals to the Global Biodiversity Information Facility. We will explore how information about biodiversity if gathered by everyone from elementary students to scientists, how this information is analyzed and processed for many uses including basic biology, museums, scholarly journals, legislative white papers and news articles. Evaluation is based on a major project or paper. Students from all disciplines are welcome.
Prerequisites	PhD student. Other graduate students may enroll with consent of instructor.
LIS450BR	History and Concept of Bibliographical Records [now 590 BR]
Credit	1/2 or 1 unit
Description	A Ph.D. seminar on studying and citing written evidence, in lists, catalogues, footnotes, inventories, and captions at exhibits; also oral references.
Prerequisites	Enrollment is limited and by permission, and for serious students at all levels (doctoral, CAS, M.S.).
LIS450CC	Telecommunications
Credit	1 unit
Description
Prerequisites
LIS450CD	Collection Development [now 590 CD]
Credit	1 unit
Description	Examines issues affecting the development and management of collections for academic, public, special and school libraries: the marketplace, publishing, legal issues, and budget allocation; document delivery; collaboration and cooperation.
Prerequisites
LIS450CD2	Current Topics in Collection Development [now 590 CD2]
Credit	1 unit
Description	Explores current topics and problems related to the development and management of library collections. Addresses changes in scholarly communication and the production and distribution of information resources that impact planning and policy for building, budgeting, and providing access to collections. Examines issues related to developing libraries that blend traditional and digital materials, including economic challenges, cooperative strategies, and specific selection and evaluation practices. Provides an overview of current digital library projects and products. Conducted as a seminar, will revolve around discussion of readings and case material collected by students. Class sessions will cover contemporary problems and trends in the field. Students will help guide the direction of the course by selecting themes to be addressed.
Prerequisites
LIS450CG	Competitive Intelligence and Government Regulations
Credit	1 unit
Description	An introduction to how corporations negotiate the competitive space created by government regulations and the implications for information professionals in the corporate sector. Topics covered include competitive intelligence, practices and sources, and the creation, dissemination, and modification of federal government regulations. Focus will be on the processes of corporate-government interaction and the role of the regulatory environment in shaping information strategy.
Prerequisites
LIS450CI	Community Information Systems [now 590 CI]
Credit	1/2 or 1 unit
Description	Introduces community information systems, with an emphasis on community networks. Provides an opportunity to develop knowledge about community information and current issues in its creation, transfer and use. In this course, "community information system" is used broadly to designate any set of technologies, services, and content whose purpose is to supply information, primarily of a local nature, to members of a given geographic community.
Prerequisites
LIS450CL	Corporate Libraries
Credit	1 unit
Description
Prerequisites
LIS450CM	Change Management [now 590 CM]
Credit	1 unit
Description	Provides students with the opportunity to deepen the knowledge and skills they gained in LIS 405, and to acquire new tools for understanding and managing the impact of a rapidly changing environment. Emphasis will be on tools and skills that prepare students for the practical challenge of managing library and information management agencies through turbulent times of change that comes from within the organization and in response to a rapidly changing environment.
Prerequisites	LIS 405 or consent of instructor.
LIS450CMC	Computer Mediated Communication [now 590 CMC]
Credit	1 unit
Description	Traces the issues and research in computer-mediated communication (CMC) that have accompanied the use and acceptance of media such as email, bulletin boards, listservs, newsgroups, group decision support systems, Internet Relay Chat, MUDs and MOOs, and the Internet.
Prerequisites	PhD student; other graduate students may enroll with consent of instructor.
LIS450CS	Seminar in Classification Systems for the Organization of Knowledge [now 590 CS]
Credit	1/2 or 1 unit
Description	Efficient and effective libraries and information services need structures for the organization of collections of knowledge and information items. Classification schemes, thesauri, and indexing systems attempt to provide such structures. The similarities and differences of various schemes, and their strengths and weaknesses for physical arrangement, knowledge organization, and computer-based information systems will be the prime foci of this seminar. Traditional and innovative schemes and systems will be examined and compared using normative principles, cognitive approaches to categorization, and disciplinary approaches as evaluative criteria.
Prerequisites
LIS450CTI	Competitive Intelligence [now 590 CTI]
Credit	1 unit.
Description	With the rapid proliferation of information communication technologies (ICTs), especially those that facilitate (positively and negatively) the transfer and management of information assets, an understanding of both competitive and strategic intelligence seems de rigeur. This course seeks to provide an overview of the principal theories of both competitive and strategic intelligence as well as methods for applying these theories to organizations that disseminate, manage, analyze, and/or archive information such as libraries, corporate information centers, dotcoms, and media or research firms. Furthermore, this course will introduce students to various organizational metaphors so that they can better understand which theories best apply to specific organizations and situations. Lastly, this course will teach students how to analyze an organization using the SWOT technique (strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats) in order to develop solutions that will make that organization more competitive, strategic, and less vulnerable in the short and near term.
Prerequisites
LIS450CW	Computer Supported Cooperative Work [now 590 CW]
Credit	1 unit
Description	This doctoral level seminar will explore research issues related to collaborative computing. The focus will be mostly on issues of usability and acceptance of technologies into the work setting, and the design process to achieve that. This includes aspects of analysis, requirements specification, tailoring, usability, learnability, and their incorporation into applications development. Issues to be covered include: synchronous and asynchronous; remote and co-located collaboration; workplace use of systems including workflow systems; computer supported collaborative learning; home and leisure use of collaborative applications, barriers to technology adoption and how to overcome them; evaluation of collaborative systems; ethnographic techniques to inform systems analysis and design; interfaces to support human-human interaction; ubiquitous computing; mobile computing; lightweight interactions; roomware; very large and very small displays.
Prerequisites	PhD student; other graduate students may enroll with consent of instructor.
LIS450DA	Data Analysis for LIS Research [now 590 DA]
Credit	1 unit
Description	A survey of data analysis issues, tools, and techniques for research in Library and Information Science. Students will locate and work with a data set of their choice, review the literature of recommended analysis methods, and prepare an analysis appropriate to the data set they have chosen.
Prerequisites	PhD student; other graduate students may enroll with consent of instructor.
LIS450DK	Distributed Knowledge [now 590 DK]
Credit	1 unit
Description	This course explores current thinking on what "knowledge" means, how we create new knowledge and transfer knowledge across disciplinary and organizational boundaries, and what social and technological processes support knowledge development for individuals and groups. The course will draw from research and methods from a number of disciplines, including social science, computer science, history, business, psychology, philosophy, and information science to explore the social processes that are involved in virtual collaborative work.
Prerequisites	PhD student; other graduate students may enroll with consent of instructor.
LIS450DL	Digital Libraries [now 590 DL]
Credit	1 unit
Description	The principles and practices of building digital libraries. Intended for MS students who wish to take a single technology course to get practical experience. Students will build their own digital libraries, using existing systems for database management and for information retrieval. Principles will cover the basic issues of placing a collection into digital format and indexing the contents for subsequent retrieval. Emphasis placed on trade-offs between manual indexing by humans and automatic indexing by computers. No prior knowledge of technology required, but general LIS knowledge is assumed.
Prerequisites	LIS 380. This course is intended for general LIS students; those wishing to specialize in information technology should take LIS 329 Information Retrieval instead.
LIS450DM	Document Modeling [now 590 DM]
Credit	1 unit
Description	An introduction to information modeling for textual and document-like data, emphasizing fundamental modeling principles and XML-related information processing standards. Specific topics include document analysis, document modeling techniques, markup systems and markup language metagrammars (SGML and XML, including XML Schema), and markup semantics, as well as character encoding (Unicode), and metadata (DC, RDF, TEI headers). Several important markup systems (TEI, ISO 12083, DocBook, XHTML) will be examined in detail. We draw on perspectives from formal language theory, data structures, and formal semantics, and explore the relationships between document modeling and other data modeling disciplines, such as the relational model. Students will undertake a substantial document modeling project.
Skill	Strong general computer skills required.
Prerequisites
LIS450DP	Document Processing [now 590 DP]
Credit	1 unit
Description	An introduction to computational problems in electronic document handling, and information processing standards employed in electronic publishing. Specific topics include structured markup languages (e.g., SGML and XML applications), linking and pointing mechanisms (Xpath, Xpointer, XLink), styling languages (CSS and XSL-FO), document transformation languages, (DSSSL, XSLT), API models for structured documents (DOM, Sax), character encoding (Unicode/UCS), and page description languages (PostScript/PDF).
Prerequisites	LIS317 or other programming experience
LIS450DS	Implementation of Distributed Information Systems [now 590 DS]
Credit	1 unit (Spring '04 offered for 1/2 unit only)
Description	Examines the effective implementation of distributed information systems, focusing on retrieval and display of information from relational databases over the World Wide Web. Students will gain conceptual and practical knowledge of web-based data creation, organization, implementation, and retrieval, with a focus on library textual databases and solutions.
Prerequisites	LIS 317, LIS 353, or permission of the instructor. Programming skills (e.g., in 'C') are desirable but not required. Some UNIX expertise is required.
LIS450EI	Ethnography of Information Systems [now 590 EI]
Credit	1 unit
Description
Prerequisites	Ph.D. student; other graduate students may enroll with consent of instructor.
LIS450EP	Electronic Publishing and Information Processing Standards
Credit	1 unit
Description	An analysis of contemporary electronic publishing from the perspective of the production process, emphasizing the role of information processing standards and the concept of documents as knowledge representation systems. Specific topics will include the organization of digital document production, tools and techniques, technical strategies, business strategies, and policy issues. Particular attention will be given to the use of key XML-related standards in the production process, and to the general role of data standards in supporting the development of a high-performance electronic publishing industry. As a vehicle for presenting a coordinated selection of fundamental issues, we will focus on the development and use of the Open eBook Publication Structure, a new industry specification for the content, structure, and presentation of "electronic books". Students may approach the material from a variety of perspectives. Final projects will be individualized to student's interests and backgrounds and may be either analytical research papers or technical projects designing and implementing portions of publishing systems.
Skill	Good basic computer and Internet skills.
Prerequisites
LIS450ET	Emerging Technologies and Community Information Systems [now 590 ET]
Credit	1 unit
Description	This course looks at current technologies used to build community information systems, reviews emerging technologies, and discusses how emerging technologies might fit into existing community information systems or how they might be used to build new community information systems. One emerging technology will be selected during the semester as a case study of the broader issues related to implementation of an emerging technology within an existing community information system or to create a new community information system.
Prerequisites	LIS 315 or LIS 353, or consent of instructor.
LIS450EV	Evaluating Programs and Services [now 590 EV]
Credit	1 unit
Description	This course provides both a theoretical base and an application base for the design and conduct of evaluations. The course includes an introduction to evaluation by reviewing history. It also provides a review of several landmark events and theoretical foundations of evaluation. The remainder of the course is focused on designing evaluations that can be applied to real needs that exists in the LIS context. This course will view the LIS context very broadly to include libraries, museums, retrieval system, and other technology based processes. Students will be able to fit the content of this course to their own specialization or work context. Outcome evaluation will be emphasized in the course, but other forms of evaluation will be included.
Prerequisites
LIS450FCC	Federation of Community Collections [now 590 FCC]
Credit	1 unit
Description	Examines future technologies and models for federating collections. Community collections are small specialized sources on a particular topic for a particular group. Such collections will form the great bulk of items on the Net in the future. Federating across such collections involves mapping similar objects across distributed collections to enable searching as a unified whole. A broad range of disciplines will be examined for different levels of federation, including schema integration in computer science, vocabulary switching in information science, cross-cultural universals in anthropology and psychology, cross-population lifestyles in healthcare and architecture. Students will read and present current papers from the research literature. A semester-long project will be required, which could lead to a PhD dissertation, involving design or implementation of new models or new systems.
Prerequisites	LIS PhD student. Other graduate students may enroll with consent of instructor.
LIS450FL	Folklore: From Fireplace To Cyberspace [now 590 FL]
Credit	1 unit
Description	Folklore is often associated with past traditions, but in fact, folklore is ongoing, ubiquitous, and expressed in an array of forms that reveal the deepest values and conflicts of a society. Library and information science is a central discipline for folklore because of its emphasis on collection, preservation, organization, and access of information in varied formats, information that is often both elusive and crucial. This seminar will explore areas of folklore, oral communications, and popular culture that have become subjects of scholarly research and practical insight into dynamic traditions. We will discuss samples and genres of folklore, analysis and interpretation of folklore, and issues such as gender representation and intellectual freedom vs. cultural ownership. Students? interests may range broadly, and each student will pursue in-depth research in his or her specialization with the goal of producing a paper for publication or contributing to a dissertation project.
Prerequisites	PhD student; other graduate students may enroll with consent of instructor.
LIS450FM	Financial Management [now 590 FM]
Credit	1 unit
Description	Provides an orientation to the variety of financial management techniques appropriate for libraries and information centers, with an emphasis on sources for obtaining financial support from grants, contracts, and other alternative sources.
Skill	basic spreadsheet
Prerequisites	Prerequisite: LIS 405 or consent of instructor. Students who have taken or plan to take LIS 450RR-Grantsmanship should not take LIS 450FM since content and assignments overlap considerably.
LIS450GC	The Political Economy of Global Communications and Information [now 590 GC]
Credit	1 unit
Description	The structure and control of global communications and information are of commanding importance in today's world. The rise of vertically integrated, transnational corporations in this sector, alongside the characteristically recent emergence throughout much of the world of national and regional units of capital, are transforming the earlier system based on cultural/informational exports and imports. The continuing transnationalization of production and distribution systems; institutionally stratified opportunities to influence the informational environment; access to communications systems and services; intellectual property issues; propaganda in the contemporary world; and evaluation of the economic importance of the sector are vital questions for research. We will analyze basic texts and recent scholarship on these topics to acquaint graduate students with leading themes and breaking research in the field, so as to assist them in designing and implementing their own research programs. Students will read a series of scholarly monographs, and write major research papers. (Same as COMM 490T.)
Prerequisites	PhD student; other graduate students may enroll with consent of instructor.
LIS450HB	History of the Book [now 590 HB]
Credit	1/2 unit
Description	[Meets June 1-5 and 7-11, 1-3:50 pm] Covers a wide variety of topics concerned with the history and development of the book, both as a physical object and as the bearer of intellectual content. The lectures/discussions will look at two different kinds of phenomena: (1) the physical properties of the objects that carried written and pictorial texts, and (2) the intellectual use to which the books have been put; their distribution, collection, and storage; editing texts for publication; the bibliographical description of books, and the use, misuse, and appreciation of books throughout history. A third area will address the issues of antiquarian and out-of-print book trade; remainders; handling, storing, caring for, repairing, and conserving books; and other areas of book history. Students will be introduced to the extensive vocabulary of the book world.
Prerequisites
LIS450HPI	Seminar on Historical Perspectives on Information Infrastructure [now 590 HPI]
Credit	1 unit.
Description	This seminar examines selective historical aspects of the development of information infrastructure, seeks to interrogate the idea of a modern "information revolution" created by digitization and the Web, and looks back to identify important beginnings and changes in the infrastructure that has been invented to help record, manage and mobilize information. Its themes are printing, bibliography, learned societies, libraries, and museums, and eventually (in passing) the non-print based mass media, and examines the social and technological contexts within which such infrastructural phenomena develop and change. Particular attention is paid to the nature and implications of a number speculative schemes of information organization and management. Its frames of reference are arbitrarily designated periods from the fifteenth to the twentieth century.
Prerequisites	PhD student; other graduate students are welcome to enroll (consent of instructor NOT required).
LIS450I	Indexing and Abstracting [590 I]
Credit	1 unit
Description	[Request submitted for permanent no. LIS 456] The practice and underlying theories for two basic operations in information systems and service, in print and electronic form.
Prerequisites	LIS 380 and LIS 407, or consent of instructor
LIS450IA	Information Architecture [now 590 IA]
Credit	1 unit
Description	The purpose of the course is to provide a solid conceptual framework and an understanding of current issues, methods and practices within the field of information architecture. The emerging discipline of information architecture is becoming increasingly important and sophisticated.?? Brochure web sites are evolving into mission-critical channels for sales and support.? Intranets and employee portals are being leveraged to drive cost-savings and productivity enhancement through e-services and knowledge management.? Universities are offering distance education courses all around the globe.? Distributed teams collaborate and share information via online communities.? All of these activities depend upon usable, flexible, scalable information architectures. Major components of this course will include: Fundamental concepts of information architecture; information ecology framework (context, content, users); building blocks of web sites, intranets and online communities; designing and integrating information architectures; advanced concepts and professional skills.
Prerequisites
LIS450IBL	Inquiry-based Learning [now 590 IBL]
Credit	1 unit
Description	The primary goal for this course is to provide an introduction to a way of thinking about learning as it occurs in workplaces, libraries, museums, and homes, as well as in formal educational settings. In order to explore that, we will read about, observe, and engage in inquiry-based learning. We will examine the creation of environments in which learners are actively engaged in making meaning through personal and collaborative inquiry. The course will also examine challenges to inquiry-based instruction, including those related to management, assessment, basic skills, cultural differences, and pedagogical goals.
Prerequisites
LIS450IC	Information Consulting I [now 590 IC]
Credit	1/2 or 1 unit
Description	This course is designed to provide students with "real world" experience as Information Specialists on cross-functional teams working on actual projects for business and industry clients. In addition to regular class sessions, students are assigned to work with teams of MBA students, providing crucial assistance in accurately defining and satisfying the clients' project information needs. Course Objectives: 1) to become effective and contributing members of cross-functional work teams; 2) to develop an understanding of the people, processes, and resources involved in business and industry information work.; and 3) to apply knowledge of information resources and technologies to organizational problem-solving. The 1/2 unit option will require participation in several of the scheduled class sessions in addition to work on project teams; the 1 unit option requires students to attend all scheduled class sessions in addition to completion of assignments and work on project teams.
Prerequisites	To register for 1/2 unit, a student must have completed a course in Business Reference or Competitive Intelligence or have had substantial, demonstrable experience doing business research. Students without this coursework or experience should register for 1 unit.
LIS450IF	Intellectual Freedom and Library Services for Youth [now 590 IF]
Credit	1 unit
Description	This course examines the intellectual freedom issues that affect children and young adults, including the censorship of books and student publications and the use of Internet filtering software in libraries and schools. In addition, it explores cultural factors that affect young people's reading and viewing choices, including literary awards, mass media, youth culture, youth activism, and corporate marketing to youth. This course provides an opportunity for in-depth discussion of censorship controversies and developing the skills and strategies needed to navigate them.
Prerequisites
LIS450II	Interfaces to Information Systems [now 590 II]
Credit	1 unit
Description	[Request submitted for permanent no. LIS 420.] This course will provide an introduction to the following: Issues in Human Computer Interaction; Analysis of interfaces and their use; Synthesis: the design process as an engineering activity; Designing usable interfaces under constraints of resources; The rapid prototyping and evaluation cycle; Metacognition: learning how to learn and to operate in this domain as a reflective, continually improving professional. Considers how people use information systems such as on-line public access catalogues, CD-Roms, bibliographic databases, digital libraries, world wide web pages, web search engines, etc.
Prerequisites	Some basic experience of using the web and designing simple web pages using rudimentary HTML; experience in using a range of computing applications.
LIS450IL	Global Perspectives in Library and Information Science
Credit	1 unit
Description	This course is designed to acquaint students with of the issues in international and comparative librarianship. Examines how concepts such as "one-world" and "free flow of information" are valid in the international information arena; the importance of internationalizing library education; role of international information agencies and the need for information policy making.
Prerequisites
LIS450IP	Information Policy [now 590 IP]
Credit	1 unit
Description	Provides an overview of U.S. federal information policy and its implications for society. Students will be introduced to key information polocy areas, as well as to the structures and processes invpolved in the formulation of federal policies. Students will also develop a critical understanding of, and gain experience with, a variety of policy research approaches and techniques; the contribution of Library and Information Science to policy formation and analysis will receive special attention.
Prerequisites
LIS450IQ	Information Quality: Principles and Practices [now 590 IQ]
Credit	1 unit
Description	This course will cover current conceptions of information quality, their scientific bases, and their practical application. It will teach you about systematic ways of measuring, analyzing, auditing, improving, and assuring the quality and relevance of large, diverse, multi-client information collections such as libraries, databases, websites, and online repositories. Representative topics to be covered include quality management in general, and quality management as specifically applied to information; simulation and statistical tools for quality measurement and control; quality issues for large web indexes (e.g. search engines, web portals, e-commerce catalogs); internal, reputational, and contextual aspects of information quality; relationships between quality and trust; etc.
Prerequisites
LIS450ISM	Information Service Marketing [now 590 ISM]
Credit	1 unit
Description	Covers all aspects of non-profit marketing, including the basic principles of marketing, and their application to a wide variety of non-profit settings and applying the principles in a joint (all-class) evaluation of an information service provider, carrying out market research for this provider, and writing up a set of recommendations. The goal of this course is, thus, two-fold: to provide a theoretical foundation that can be applied to many different organizational settings, particularly non-profits; to apply these theoretical concepts to a real-world situation comparable to the settings in which you will be employed.
Prerequisites
LIS450ISP	Social History of U.S. Telecommunications: Industry Structure and Policy [now 590 ISP]
Credit	1 unit
Description	Same as COMM 490Q. This course seeks to render a broad historical portrait of the range and character of a vital producer and consumer service: telecommunications. Episodes of social conflict over the institutional purpose of telecommunications are accorded emphasis in our effort to set changing industry structures and public policies within the larger and longer-term historical movement of American society.
Prerequisites
LIS450ITL	Inquiry Teaching and Learning
Credit	1 unit
Description	Explores the creation of classrooms in which students and teachers are actively engaged in making meaning through personal and collaborative inquiry. Issues will include integrating across traditional curricular areas, themes, projects, student-centered learning, and connections between the classroom and the social and natural worlds beyond the school. One major issue is the role for teachers as inquirers about their own and their student's learning. The course will also examine challenges to inquiry-based instruction, including those related to management, assessment, basic skills, cultural differences and assumptions, and the responses of parents, principals, and others.
Skill	basic HTML
Prerequisites
LIS450JJ	Information Resources Management and the Electronic Information Environment
Credit	1 unit
Description	This course is designed to acquaint students with the emerging information environment in organizations -- the knowledge environment in which they will live and work. Will focus on the following characteristics of this information environment: 1) multiple conceptions of information; 2) increasingly electronically mediated; 3) information-intensive; 4) increasingly collaborative; 5) distributed -- people who collaborate are dispersed geographically and temporally; 6) emergent -- rapidly changing in unpredictable ways. Success in this electronic information environment will require both the adoption of new skills and of new ways of thinking. An understanding of the dynamics of an electronically mediated environment, as well as of the multiple roles of an information professional in these organizations.
Prerequisites
LIS450KK	Adult Popular Literature [now 590 KK]
Credit	1/2 or 1 unit
Description	Introduction to popular writing for adults and the place this material occupies in the library. Main topics covered include Adult Publishing and Reading, Types of Popular Literature, and Popular Literature in Libraries. A 1-day field trip required.
Prerequisites
LIS450KRW	Document, Text, Work [now 590 KRW]
Credit	1 unit
Description	Although these are foundational concepts in Library and Information Science, they remain mysterious and controversial. What exactly ARE documents, texts (editions), and works? Cataloguing practice gives practical answers for its practical problems, but this course goes further and takes up the underlying philosophical issues that still do not have accepted answers: How is it that multiple physical documents can carry the same text, and multiple texts can carry the same work? What changes in a document can alter the text it carries? What changes in a text alter the work the text carries? Are abstract things like works as real as concrete things like documents? If works are real, but not physical, WHERE are they? In your head? But if they are in your head how can you and I study the SAME work? Are works in some sense socially constructed? Are texts? Are documents? We will read and discuss classic papers from theorists in several quite different fields as well as draw on related work in linguistics, philosophy, and semiotics. This seminar is primarily oriented at advanced students or studenys with an antecedent interest in the topic.
Prerequisites	LIS 380 or permission of instructor. Master's students should contact instructor before enrolling.
LIS450KS	Knowledge Studies for Information Science [now 590 KS]
Credit	1 unit.
Description	This seminar examines the dynamics of knowledge drawing on recent scholarship of knowledge, sociology of science, social epistemology, and the sociology of rhetoric. Discusses the literature critically, investigating its relationship to the information transfer process and the study of information problems in library and information science.
Prerequisites	PhD student; other graduate students may enroll with consent of instructor.
LIS450LE	The Librarian as Educator
Credit	1 unit
Description
Prerequisites
LIS450LI	Legal Issues in Library and Information Science [now 590 LI]
Credit	1/2 or 1 unit
Description	A detailed exploration of the legal issues arising in various library settings, including access rights, privacy and confidentiality, copyright, intellectual freedom and information liability and malpractice. There are three objectives: 1) to understand the nature and scope of legal problems arising in the operation of the library; 2) to identify the responsibilities that library and information professionals have in executing current law and the opportunities available to effect necessary change; and 3) to evaluate current legal responses to such problems and envision alternative responses, both legal and non-legal, in light of sound information concepts.
Prerequisites
LIS450LR	Literacy, Reading, and Readers [now 590 LR]
Credit	1 unit
Description	Reading and literacy play a central role in all areas of LIS, as well as in its cognate fields, yet they are a largely invisible part of our professional infrastructure. This course will address this oversight through a multidisciplinary investigation of the various activities, processes, and means of acquisition associated with literacy and reading as physical, social, educational and cultural activities. Drawing upon scholarship in LIS, education, literature, history, sociology, psychology, and anthropology, and with special consideration given to the dimensions of age, gender, class, religion, race and ethnicity, we will expand upon traditional notions of literacy and explore the notion of multiple literacies.
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LIS450LSI	Logic, Semantics, and Information Science
Credit	1 unit
Description	Logic and related topics in formal semantics provide a powerful set of tools for understanding and advancing many areas of library and information science. This course covers propositional and predicate logic, basic metatheoretical results, and relevant introductory topics in modal logic (including the logic of knowledge and information), semantics (meaning and reference), formal ontology, and the design of domain-specific logics. The application to LIS areas such as data modeling, metadata development, and ontology design, will be emphasized throughout.
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LIS450LT	Learning Technologies [now 590 LT]
Credit	1 unit
Description	New digital technologies, such as the WWW, have the potential to open many doors for learners, providing essential learning resources and engaging all students in meaningful learning activities. At the same time, these new technologies raise serious issues such as quality, privacy, and equity of use. This course is designed for students interested in the promise and perils of new information and communication technologies to enhance learning.
Skill	basic HTML
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LIS450LW	Web Design and Construction for Organizations [now 590 LW]
Credit	1 unit
Description	Focuses on the basics of web site design, content development, HTML programming, procedures and policies for organizations, with a concentration on public, academic and special libraries. Students will investigate and design a representative site. Course will also examine management strategies including web site editors, redundancy and archiving.
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LIS450MIH	Medical Informatics and Healthcare Infrastructure [now 590 MIH]
Credit	1 unit
Description	Healthcare is the largest industry in the country, but the current infrastructure for providing healthcare is not viable. Recent advances in information technology promise radically different infrastructure that could provide a viable model for providing healthcare. This course will examine healthcare infrastructure through lectures and discussions, through text readings and web sites. Medical informatics will be dissected in detail: past (classification and retrieval of medical literature and medical records), present (health portals on the Internet becoming integrated delivery systems), future (cohort matching across population databases generated from health monitors). There are no pre-requisites for this course. It is intended to be suitable for MS students who wish an introduction to current issues in healthcare information. Practical topics will be emphasized with the aim of examining an industry in transition. A semester project will be required, involving the development of healthcare collections with health status questions and health treatment brochures.
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LIS450MIS	Multimedia Storage and Retrieval [now 590 MIS]
Credit	1 unit
Description
Prerequisites	for Ph.D student only
LIS450ML	Media Literacy and Youth [now 590 ML]
Credit	1/2 or 1 unit
Description	Literacy involves the ability to read, write, and understand the meanings of text. Media literacy and critical viewing extend traditional literacy to include the construction and deconstruction of texts mediated by audio and video technologies. This course has a three-fold task: to examine our own histories with media and to question how we currently use and analyze mass mediated texts and technologies; to acquaint students with instructional resources and strategies for media literacy in libraries and schools; and to guide students in a production project that will utilize and deepen their critical understanding. The course will take child development into account as we consider the need for media literacy in the rapidly changing media environment of the digital age.
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LIS450NF	Information Books and Resources for Youth [now 590 NF]
Credit	1/2 or 1 unit
Description	Evaluation, selection and use of information books and other resources for young people (ages 0-18) in public libraries and school media centers; explores standard selection criteria for factual print and nonprint materials in all formats and develops the ability to evaluate and promote nonfiction books and resources according to their various uses (personal and curricular) and according to young people's various needs (intellectual, emotional, social and physical).
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LIS450NL	New Literacies
Credit	1/2 or 1 unit
Description	Explores what it means to be information literate in today's world. Students will examine a number of information literacies, from print to multimedia, from stand-alone to networked, and discuss a variety of themes that have been affected by new communication and information technologies, such as community, the political sphere, and education. In the course students will learn about literacy in the information age, including rationales, approaches, implementations, challenges, and dilemmas; reflect upon historical processes, philosophical issues, and technical changes through small group discussions during class; study new literacy practices through an individual or small group research project.
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LIS450OP	Information in Organizational Problem Solving
Credit	1/2 unit
Description
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LIS450OPR	Open Problems in Information Retrieval
Credit	1 unit
Description
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LIS450PAR	Participatory Action Research
Credit	1 unit
Description	Participatory action research (PAR) unites people from all walks of life in identifying, investigating, and taking action on conditions that affect the well-being of local residents. Special attention is given to building on the capacity and knowledge of people who face poverty, discrimination, or other barriers to achieving control over their lives and a voice in public affairs. This course will investigate the theory and practice of PAR, as it has been applied in spheres of life that include the evaluation of educational programs, the development of health services, the improvement of leisure opportunities, and the design of information and communication technologies. Students will collaborate in conducting a local community-based research and action project, as well as have the opportunity to develop their individual research interests.
Prerequisites	PhD student; other graduate students may enroll with consent of instructor.
LIS450PE	Information Organization and Access: Practice and Experience
Credit	1 unit
Description	This course is an optional "companion" to LIS380 and is project-oriented, with two main aims: (1) Gain deeper levels of practice and experience with principal concepts of Information Organization and Access as portrayed in LIS380 by creating an actual collection and providing access to it; ( 2) Develop familiarity and skill with basic technologies that inform LIS practice, such as web pages and sites, markup languages, XML/RDF, and online content management systems. The activities of the course will include designing the aims and content of a document repository; specifying the user base and its requirements; creating coherent and practical collection and selection policies; actual selection and acquisition of (primarily online) documents; indexing and cataloging; creation of metadata; adding and deselecting new documents to the collection over time; providing access pathways & finding aids; evaluating the resulting collections; and developing strategies for improving them.
Prerequisites	LIS380 (concurrent enrollment OK); comfort with computing at the introductory level; can create a web page using "raw" HTML; familiar with text (.txt) editor; ability to move documents around in a secure networked environment; willing to undertake significant technical content project.
LIS450PP	Advanced Government Publications
Credit	1 unit
Description	Provides an opportunity for persons who have had basic government publications course and/or working experience with government publications to pursue special problem areas relating to government publications. Review of characteristics of federal, state, local, international, and foreign government publications with emphasis on recent developments in each area. Provides assistance in developing a paper of publishable quality on a topic relating to government publications.
Prerequisites	LIS 424 or consent of instructor
LIS450PT	Pragmatic Technology [now 590 PT]
Credit	1/2 or 1 unit
Description	This course explores two senses of "pragmatic technology." One is the common language notion of technology that works to meet real human needs, accommodates to users, and is situated in time, place, and setting. The second is a conception of technology from pragmatist theory, in which technology is the means for resolving a problematic situation. The latter sees technologies as both means of action and forms of understanding. The course investigates philosophical and historical work such as that of J. Dewey, W. James, and C. S. Peirce, as well as more recent research on the social uses and implications of technologies.
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LIS450QM	Qualitative Methods in Research [now 590 QM]
Credit	1 unit
Description	Survey of strategies of qualitative inquiry, considering methods of collecting, analyzing, interpreting, and reporting data.
Prerequisites	PhD student; other graduate students may enroll with consent of instructor.
LIS450RB	Rare Book and Special Collections Librarianship [now 590 RB]
Credit	1/2 unit
Description	[Meets July 12-16 and 19-23, 1-3:50 pm] This course is designed as a practical introduction to Rare Book and Special Collections Librarianship, to cover for the neophyte as well as the experienced librarian the many issues of these departments' responsibilities, including selection, acquisition, receiving, cataloging, processing, shelving, circulation, inter-library loan, reference, preservation and conservation, security, exhibition, publication, and so forth, including the uses of information technology.
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LIS450RC	Research Methods for Text Corpora [now 590 RC]
Credit	1 unit
Description	Covers data processing and analysis methods for large collections of texts, and their roles in advancing and testing scientific claims. Topics include collocation analysis, authorship attribution, clustering, stylometry, information theory, and hidden Markov models. Students will be expected to obtain access to a corpus of texts for analysis in projects and exercises. Students must come prepared to obtain or build their own information processing tools, and so prior programming experience will be helpful. The working environment will include standard Unix utilities, programming languages, and numerical/statistical computation packages. However, we will not have time for extensive instruction in their use, and students are free to use other tools if they choose.
Skill	Understanding of elementary descriptive and inferential statistics.Prior programming experience helpful.
Prerequisites	PhD student; other graduate students may enroll with consent of instructor.
LIS450RGI	Race, Gender, and Information Technology [now 590 RGI]
Credit	1 unit
Description
Prerequisites	for Ph.D students only
LIS450RGS	Race, Gender and Sexuality in the Information Professions [now 590 RGS]
Credit	1/2 or 1 unit
Description	This course examines how issues of race, gender and sexuality are represented in the information professions and will study how race, gender and sexuality affect, and are affected by, information technologies. Socially constructed (mis)representations (or lack of representations) of race, gender and sexual identity will be critically examined in different settings as they intersect, overlap, and impact the information use, technology practices, and the design of information resources and services in the processes of creation, organization, and dissemination of information in LIS and related fields.
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LIS450RI	Reliability of Information and Information Systems [now 590 RI]
Credit	1 unit
Description	Examines social, technical, and organizational issues in the reliability and security of information and information systems, including 'normal' problems; how people define errors and mistakes; human adaptations and workarounds; explaining differentials in problem resolution; reliability problems as arenas for social integration, the sociotechnical value of unreliability, etc.
Prerequisites	PhD student; other graduate students may enroll with consent of instructor.
LIS450RM	Records Management [now 590 RM]
Credit	1 unit
Description	Records are the business and cultural memory of organizations and society. They contain information that serves as knowledge, as a valuable resource and as an important operating asset. This course provides an introduction to Records and Information Management (RIM). It covers the basic components, principles, methods and significant problems in traditional Records Management as well as electronic records, and it discusses the policies, systems, and practices used to manage records in all physical formats or mediums. The course is designed to give students a comprehensive understanding of the field and of the life cycle concept - management of records from creation to final disposition.
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LIS450RO	Representing and Organizing Information Resources [now 590 RO]
Credit	1/2 or 1 unit
Description	Emphasizes concepts and methods of organizing information resources across different settings and systems, or within one particular setting. The course extends the basic conceptual foundation provided in LIS 380 by providing further reading, analysis, discussion, and practice related to one or several major traditions of information organization in different environments (e.g., libraries, museums, archives, Internet, and within a single organization).
Prerequisites	LIS 380.
LIS450RR	Grantsmanship
Credit	1/2 or 1 unit
Description	A hands-on approach to developing grant writing skills for information professionals. All aspects of proposal development are considered -- idea generation, identification of potential funding sources, writing letters of inquiry, working on each of the elements in a proposal: problem statement, work plan, resou