Course Information
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Several of the elective courses mentioned below may be taken as an
independent study if you are unable to take the course when scheduled.
Please ask. The 531 and 534 courses assume that you have regular
access to a research library collection.
SIS
560: Information resources selection, acquisition, and evaluation
SIS 561:Contemporary book publishing:
SIS 534: Government information sources
SIS 531: Social Science information sources
- Taught every other Fall term
- Emphasis on anthropology, business/economics, education, political science, sociology,
psychology, geography, and history. This is a course with much breadth but little depth.
- Requires responses to problem sets involving a variety of sources, a
discipline familiarization exercise, and an investigation and report on
information-seeking behavior in a particular social science. Problem set
responses are discussed in class.
- Elective, likely to interest those in reference work, especially in research libraries.
- Course Syllabus (Fall 1999)
- Literature Structure Lecture Notes
- Reference Interview Lecture Notes
Notes
- Self-service Reference Lecture Notes
- Social Science Reference Position
Announcement Exercise
- Some Final Thoughts & Questions
- Social Science Lecture Notes
- Social Science General Exercises
- Anthropology Lecture Notes
- Anthropology Exercises
- Business Lecture Notes
- Business Exercises
- Economics Lecture Notes
- Economics Exercises
- Education Lecture Notes
- Education Exercises
- Geography Lecture Notes
- Geography Exercises
- History Lecture Notes
- History Exercises
- Political Science Lecture Notes
- Political Science Exercies
- Psychology Lecture Notes
- Psychology Exercises
- Sociology Lecture Notes
- Sociology Exercises
SIS 430: History of the book
- Taught irregularly.
- Emphasis on the early history of the book from rock carving and painting to Gutenberg. This is a course with much breadth but little depth.
- Requires 4 essays from a list of topics and a final examination.
- Elective, available to undergraduates and graduates. Suitable for those within the School and others as well. Broad, historical background or context course. May be useful for those spending a life-time working with books.
- Course Syllabus
SIS 590: Reader's Advisory work with Genre Fiction
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