Course Web Location:  www.ardis.org/SciTech/

The instructor will email each member of the class the required user name and password to log into the site on the first day of class.  

Course Description

Examination and use of the various specialized information resources used by librarians and members of the scientific and technology community.  

Goals and Objectives

Upon completion of the course the student will be able to

1. Recognize and understand the differences between the various scientific and technological disciplines 
2. Recognize the various information resources available to each discipline 
3. Demonstrate how to work through various questions and thereby-learn by doing. 
4. Recognize, understand, and use the major online and paper resources.
5. Demonstrate the use of the important tools through answering questions.
6. Understand some of the issues in sci/tech librarianship 

The course supports the following objectives from the School’s goals and objectives:

1. Teaching: Information management, including the selection, organization, storage, retrieval, dissemination and utilization of information resources.
2. Teaching: Advocacy and leadership for citizen access to information.

Web-based instruction 

This is a self-paced,  assignment-based web class.  The website will include readings from various sources as well as written lectures and problem sets.  Several assignments will involve actually going to a university library. 

There is no assigned textbook. All lectures, readings, assignments, quizzes and the final are on the web. 

The class will be held on the Internet and all interaction with the professor will be through email.

The assignments will vary in length; some will be quite short and other will be more extensive.  

Assignments are due no earlier or later than the dates indicated in the class calendar  unless there are extraordinary circumstances.  

All assignments should be sent to Susan Ardis as an email or Microsoft Word® attachment. 

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