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Course Description:

Over the past decade, information providers have created digital reproductions of visual materials as an enhancement to traditional information resources. Digitization is now a mainstream activity in libraries, museums, archives and other information providers. In addition to the creation of digital information resources, usage of those resources has become a concern to information providers. The creation of digital resources as well as information usage in the form of digital reference, digital teaching, digital preservation and other aspects of digital information will be discussed in this course.

Objectives:

• To develop the ability to analyze administrative concerns with the creation, access, usage and retention of digital information
• To develop the ability to design and evaluate digital information systems and components for practical usage in information organizations and institutions

The course supports the following SLIS objectives: The principles and practices of management as specifically applied to information environments; the application of diverse technologies to information management.

Note: This class will be entirely web based. This web based course will be presented through Blackboard. Any changes to the schedule will be announced in the Announcements section of Blackboard. To take this course, you must do BOTH of the following:

1. Register for the course through the University (see registration information)
2. You must ALSO enroll through SLIS’s Blackboard site (see tutorials on how to create an account and enroll in a class)