Digital Librarianship Development

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Digital LibrarianshipDevelopment Evolution
of a Graduate Course

• Dr. Peter Jacso
• Professor
• Department of Information and Computer Sciences
• University of Hawaii, USA
• CONSAL Conference
• March 28, 2006
• Manila
• PowerPoint Judit Tiszai

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OVERVIEW

• Independent, stand-alone course
• 8th time (see courses)
• Relatively high enrolment
• Some master students from other programs
• Some doctoral students from Comm, Inf, Pol
• 15-week regular or 3-week intensive, 40 contact
  hours

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SCOPE

• Digital Librarianship vs. Digital Libraries
• The librarians involvement

Resource Discovery Tools (advanced)
Digital Resources (highest quality)
Resource Creation (elementary)
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CONTENT (see syllabus)

• Major components
• Digital contents
• ready ref sources (encyclopedias, dictionaries,
  almanacs)
• large journal archives (ScienceDirect, Blackwell,
  ACM DL)
• OA repositories, e-books, e-nything

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CONTENT (see syllabus)

• Major components
• Technology
• Tools and rules (protocols) for creation and
  cooperation
• Roles of publishers, libraries and other orgs
• Social, economic, management and legal issues
• Subject guides and directories
• Search, multi-search, meta-search engines, proxy
  search
• Interoperability, metadata, Xchange

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DELIVERY (see schedule)

• Intertwined discovery, resources, creation
• Students work in groups
• Evaluation of a mix of digital collections
• Instructors former students model for
  evaluation
• Webliography on widely relevant topic

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DELIVERY (see schedule)
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Assignments
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DIGITAL READING STUDY MATERIALS (see readings)

• Articles from ProQuest Ebsco
• UH digital journal archives
• Individuals preprint collections
• Conference paper archives
• Hot-linked recommended sites
• Digital notebooks

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ISSUES

• Not enough time, new topics services
• Frantic pace using non-traditional resources
• Splitting into basic and advanced?
• Channeling more topics to existing courses?

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