Eschenfelder: Courses for Masters Degree Program:
Managing Licensed Digital Resources
This course is designed to provide an overview of issues related to the growing body of licensed digital bibliographic and full text databases e-journals, e-books, e-reference sources and online data sets that are coming to compose a larger part of public, academic and library collections. Topics covered include managerial issues such as licensing, copyright, perpetual access, and workflow changes and technical issues such as DOIs, openURLs, digital rights management and electronic resource management systems. This class does not require any previous technical courses.
Technological Tools, Trends and Debates
This introductory course in local and wide area computer networking concepts and technology is designed to create network-literature information professionals. This course does not require any prior technical knowledge beyond general computer and Internet usage.
Information and Telecommunications Policy
This is a survey course of major information and telecommunications policy issues such as privacy, copyright, digital divide, competition and regulation in the telecommunications industry, internet governance, and access to government information.
Database Design and Management
This is an introductory course that teaches the fundamentals of database design and basics of database implementation using MySQL.This course does not require any prior technical knowledge or programming skills.
Information Architecture
This course applies fundamental information science knowledge of the organization of information and information seeking behavior to the design of web based information resources. The course includes usability, navigation, metadata, standards compliant XHTML and CSS coding, XML, accessibility, project planning, project management, evaluation, and ongoing web information system management. Students work with existing organizations to design or redesign a web site based on client needs and management reource limitations.
Eschenfelder: Courses for PhD Program:
PhD Seminar in Information Policy, Management and Institutions
This course examines insitutions relevant to the library and information science arena including (but not limited to) libraries (public, academic, special), governments (local, state, federal, international), academic institutions, publishers (academic, for-profit, and popular), the press local, national, international), and a variety of public interest groups that seek to influence information policies at all levels.
The course incorporates research, theories, and methodologies appropriate to the group and organizational level of analysis.
LIS 910 Seminar in Research Methods
This course will compare different paradigms of reseach in terms of how they determine research quality and data validity. It investigates different stances toward epistemology (what can be known) and ontology ( what is the form and nature of reality and what can we can collect data about) - and how stances align with particular methodologies. Despite the title of the course, it will not provide an instruction on actual data collection or analysis methodologies.
