LIABRARIAN
During my studies, the majority of the electives I took fell under the Information Access and Discovery pathway. The other electives I took relate to my interests in creativity and design. Below, you will find a full list of the courses that I completed, as well as a the course descriptions from Kent's Course Catalog.
REQUIRED COURSES
LIS 60010: The Information Landscape
Exploration of the nature of information and technology in information-intensive environments. Topics to be addressed include information lifecycle processes such as production, storage, sharing, and consumption; social, cultural, economic, legal, and technological contexts for understanding information processes; the roles of information professionals and agencies, and their place in the larger information marketplace; current and emerging information technologies that shape the information economy.
LIS 60020: Information Organization
Exploration of the nature of information and technology in information-intensive environments. Topics to be addressed include information lifecycle processes such as production, storage, sharing, and consumption; social, cultural, economic, legal, and technological contexts for understanding information processes; the roles of information professionals and agencies, and their place in the larger information marketplace; current and emerging information technologies that shape the information economy.
LIS 60030: People in the Information Ecology
Takes a user-centered approach in exploring the information needs and behaviors of people (as individuals and in groups, communities, and institutions) in relation to the larger information ecology that surrounds them. Topics covered include an overview of information ecology; the user-centered paradigm; major information needs and information behavior theories, models, and findings; the landscape of information sources and services for users; factors that influence people’s information needs and behaviors; and user empowerment, information ethics, information fluency, and related issues.
LIS 60040: Information Institutions and Professions
Examines the political, social, economic, and technical forces that influence the larger environments in which information institutions are situated. This course explores characteristics of the environments in which information professionals may work, including but not limited to academic, school, public, and special libraries, museums, archives, cultural heritage institutions, government organizations, corporations across all industries, and information creators and publishers. The course explores characteristics of the information profession including core values and principles, emerging professions, and understanding possible futures in profession, and explores ideas of organizational behavior in information institutions that operate across the institution as a whole, within groups, and within individuals in the organization.
LIS 60050: Research and Assessment in Library and Information Science
Focuses on quantitative and qualitative research methods applicable to information settings and environments. Explores research design, data analysis, proposal development, and ethical issues.
LIS 60280: Master's Portfolio in Library and Information Science
Completed in a student’s last semester. It includes the creation of an electronic portfolio to represent and self-evaluate the student’s experience throughout the MLIS program, considering program learning outcomes and preparation for a career in the field of library and information science.
INFORMATION ACCESS AND DISCOVERY PATHWAY
LIS 60601: Information Sources and Reference Services
Introduction to use and evaluation of basic sources of reference information, computerized and noncomputerized; reference interview and question-negotiation techniques; administration of reference and information services.
LIS 60609: Marketing the Library
Introduction to the theory and practice of marketing the library. Topics include the evaluation of customer needs, the marketing mix, merchandising, public relations, relationship marketing, and the design and development of a marketing plan for libraries.
LIS 60617: Information Literacy for Youth
This course is intended to guide graduate students in creating and providing information literacy instruction for youth in school and public libraries. This course includes 10 hours of practical experience.
LIS 60618: Information Literacy and Instruction
Information literacy is an essential competency needed to navigate an information society. This course explores how to create and deliver effective information literacy instruction to post-secondary students and adult populations. Topics include a comparison of information literacy standards and frameworks; learning theories focused on adult learning; planning, creating, delivering, and assessing IL instruction activities; and developing and managing IL instruction in collaboration with key stakeholders.
LIS 60655: Copyright: Understanding User Rights and Responsibilities
Exploration of advanced copyright topics such as mass digitization, creative arts and other issues in fair use, library, archive and educational uses including the TEACH Act, digital first sale rights, Digital Millennium Copyright Act, and an introduction to copyright reform.
OTHER ELECTIVES
LIS 60627: Art and Story: The Study of Children's Picturebooks
Engages students in the study and application of art and story in children’s picturebooks through the lenses of book history, publishing studies, children’s book illustration and storytelling, visual literacy and visual storytelling. Readers of picturebooks are studied as well, from professional readers, like librarians and book reviewers, to picturebook consumers.
LIS 61095: Special Topics: Introduction to Digital Humanities
This course aims to provide students with a greater understanding of how new forms of knowledge production and representation, computational thinking, and applications of various information and digital technologies have impacted research and pedagogy in humanities disciplines. Special attention will be given to how information professionals can support and promote digital humanities work. Throughout the course, students will have the opportunity to explore, apply, and critique the technologies, tools, methods, and values of the digital humanities field.