Important! This class will be conducted using a new technology known as weblogs or "blogs". It meets only once on March 8: 1-4pm in San Jose.
If you are currently enrolled in the course,
send an email message to Dr. Loertscher at davidl@wahoo.sjsu.edu
using the email address you wish to use throughout the semester. He
will link you into the blog and notify you when it is ready. This
should be sometime a week or so before the class begins officially in
late January.
In the meantime, if you wish to get started,
you may read the professional literature and search the Internet for
any information about the use of digital libraries including online
databases, school library portals or web pages, and digital libraries
generally.
Course Description
A seminar exploring every aspect of the digital school
library from a local, national, and international perspective.
Course Objectives
1. To become world-wide experts in the current status and the
future possibilities of a digital school library for children and
young adults as a part of school library media services.
2. To build an exemplary portal for a school
library media center and test its impact on learners, teachers, and
the school.
3. To learn how to collaborate using Blog
technology to build a knowledge management system not only for this
seminar but to test its possibilities for use as a part of the school
digital library.
Textbooks
None
Instructor
David V. Loertscher
Professor, San Jose State
University
School of Library and Informaiton Science
One Washington Square
San Jose State University
San Jose CA 95192-0029
Home address:
312 South 1000 East
Salt Lake City UT 84102
408-924-2501 (San Jose office)
801-532-1165 home
801-755-1122 cell phone
davidl@wahoo.sjsu.edu
Course Outline
Topics: The class will be divided into four groups who will
be expected to build worl-class expertise in the group's topic and
will also have the responsibility of seeing that the entire class
knows what you and your group knows. The topics include:
1. Issues connected to the digital school
library - Dr. Blanche Woolls, Advisor
2. Commercial attempts to build the digital
school library for young people - Dr. David Loertscher, Advisor
3. The state-of-the-art in the United States
of school library home pages/portals/digital libraries aimed at
children and teens - Dr. Dan Fuller, Advisor
4. What resources are free for the digital
school library and what is the state-of-the-art of foreign
development in the digital school library? - Dr. Brenda White,
Advisor
Each of these topics is described further
under the topic links on the left ribbon above.
Each topical area will have an
"advisor" listed above with Dr. Loertscher being the
instructor of record for the course.
We also expect a number of national visitors
to the blog to watch, observe, and comment about what is going on.
Major Projects:
1. Develop your own world-class expertise within your group -
contributing to the group as a whole and building your own sub-area
of expertise.
2. Write a 10+ page publishable paper on
your specialty area.
3. Build not only your own knowledge, but
build the knowledge of the group and the knowledge of the class as a
whole. We are not in competition with one another - we are all trying
to learn as much as possible both as individuals and as an entire
group. The blog will serve as a "knowledge management" tool
to build the corporate expertise.
4. Build/improve your own digital school
library.
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Office Hours
For Spring 2003, the professor will be available via email at
davidl@wahoo.sjsu.edu He is happy to take calls at home in the early
morning or late evening. Salt Lake City is one hourahead of
California. If you need course adaptations or accommodations because
of a disability, if you have emergency medical information to share
with me, or if you need special arrangement in case the building must
be evacuated, please make an appointment with me as soon as
possible.
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Grading: Each of the four projects will receive equal
weighting in determining the grade for the course.
