Summer and Fall 2013 Special Topics Courses
Tuesday, Mar 19, 2013 @ 12:50 pm
Please find below the Summer and Fall 2013 Special Topics Courses:
SUMMER 2013
LIS 697-01: Contemporary Issues in Health
Instructor: Helen-Ann Epstein
Summer I, Tuesday & Thursday, 6:00-9:20 pm
*off campus
This is truly a survey class of the hottest topics in biomedicine and
information science. The class will analysis topics covered in leading
journals, magazines, websites, and blogs and then select 15 topics to
learn the subject and how to access information on that topic. This is a
hand-son class.
Goal: Gain Knowledge of Contemporary Issues in Health Information
Objectives: At the close of this 6-week Summer Session, students will have:
1. conducted a thorough literature review in health information and
librarianship resources identifying popular and innovative topics
2. gained subject knowledge of topics chosen
3. searched and retrieved quality information in topics chosen
4. planned method to keep abreast of new advances
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LIS 697-02: Database and Web Application
Instructor: Prof. Gilok Choi
Summer I, Tuesday & Thursday, 3:00-6:50 pm
This course will provide the conceptual knowledge and practical skills
necessary to design and develop interactive websites. As an information
profession, students will learn how to build a web-based database
application to serve users’ information needs. Through hands-on projects,
students will A) create a relational database using MySQL and B) develop a
client application using PHP.
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LIS 697-03: Community Building and Engagement
Instructor: Prof. Chris Sula
Summer I, Tuesday & Thursday, 2:00-5:20 pm
This course examines the notion of community within cultural heritage
institutions and the larger framework of cultural informatics. Particular
emphasis is placed on social media as a tool for communication,
engagement, and action. Topics include communities and digital commons,
user studies, diverse populations, media studies, digital identity, social
networks, information ecologies, social media adoption and use, community
building, social advocacy and activism, and technology in the service of
democracy.
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LIS 697-08: Researching Local Histories: Cities & Towns
Instructor: Nancy Friedland
Summer II, Tuesday & Thursday, 2:00-5:20 pm
Local history lives everywhere -- in diaries and letters, epitaphs on
tombstones, building names, maps, travel literature, and government
documents. This course will provide a comprehensive overview of a vast set
of resources and research methods for the study of cities and town – the
how and where local history lives. The course will question why we study
local histories and how research compares across disciplines in the
humanities, social sciences and sciences. New York City will be our case
study. The format of the class will include lecture and discussion.
Several site visits and a walking tour will be scheduled.
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FALL 2013
LIS 697-01: Management of Digital Content
Instructor: Prof. Gilok Choi
Tuesday, 6:30-8:50 pm
*Prerequisite: LIS 654
This course will provide both the conceptual knowledge and practical
skills needed for creating, presenting and evaluating digital content with
Content Management Systems (CMSs). For this purpose, students will learn
how to manage digital content using Drupal, which is currently one of the
most popular and promising digital CMSs. While developing class projects,
students will gain a general understanding of CMSs and acquire
up‐to‐date, hands‐on experience of managing digital
content with CMSs.
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LIS 697-02: Digital Scholarship & Libraries
Instructor: Kate Wittenberg
Monday, 6:30-8:50 pm
As research and scholarship develop in digital form, the processes and
organizations involved in the creation of this work are evolving as well.
Faculty will increasingly need support in developing their scholarly
agendas, using new technologies, managing and preserving the data from
their research, and shaping the narratives and multimedia elements of
their digital projects. With their deep understanding of how to organize,
deliver, and preserve information, the tools and functionality that add
value to content, and the changing needs of users, academic librarians are
well positioned to play a leading role in supporting the creation and
dissemination of this new born-digital scholarship. This course will
provide students with an opportunity to explore these developments and
examine the challenges, opportunities, and emerging roles for library
professionals in supporting and partnering with scholars in this work.
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LIS 697-03: Projects in Moving Image and Sound Archiving
Instructor: Prof. Anthony Cocciolo
Wednesday, 6:30-8:50 pm
*Prerequisite: LIS 654; Recommended: LIS 694 – Film and Media Collections
From film, video, to born digital, moving image and sound recordings have
compelled users since their advent in the late nineteenth century. Today,
many archives housed at universities or non-profit institutions act to
preserve the moving image record. However, the fragility of this medium
(particularly the magnetic medium that holds sound and video), combined
with the preservation needs of today’s born-digital works (such as
independent documentaries), are questioning our collective ability to
preserve this work. This class will work to combat this trend by focusing
on the theoretical and practical aspects related to archiving moving image
and sound recording, with a particular emphasis on digitization and
born-digital assets.
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LIS 697-04: Programming for Cultural Heritage
Instructor: Chris Weller
Thursday, 6:30-8:50 pm
*Prerequisites: LIS 653 & LIS 654
This course is about rolling up our sleeves and getting to work. We will
be innovators in an emerging field within the cultural heritage ecosystem.
In becoming so, you will learn to program in a real life computing
language--one used by professional programmers. You will learn to model
data, query it over the internet, parse it, clean it and synthesize it
linked data for reuse by other cultural institutions.
We will attempt to maintain a flat work curve to avoid the mid- and
end-of-semester crunch. When we have finished, you will have the skills to
hack your own digital library and publish it. You will have experience and
technical knowledge that most MLIS graduates do not and you will be more
than qualified to create, supervise or participate in a digital project at
any museum or library where you might find employment.
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LIS 697-05: Projects in Linked Open Data
Instructor: Matt Miller
Monday, 3:30-5:50 pm
Linked Open Data (LOD) is assuming an increasingly central role in how
cultural institutions organize and share their data with the world. This
course will cover the principles and methods of LOD through a
project-based approach. The course will survey the current field of LOD
with a focus on the theoretical underpinnings as well as the practical
applications in cultural heritage institutions including libraries,
archives and museums. Under the supervision and assistance of the
instructor, students will design and build working digital projects,
leveraging LOD principles and datasets. Students will develop their
programming and web-development skill set through classroom instruction
and practical implementation. By the end of this course students will have
gained a solid foundation in LOD theory and practice and will be able to
demonstrate their accomplishments through the digital LOD projects created
over the course of the semester.
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LIS 697-06: Medical Librarianship
Instructor: Helen-Ann Epstein
Tuesday, 6:30-8:50 pm
*off campus
Working through clinical cases in an evidence based way build confidence
in using the most used free and fee based print and online health
information resources for the professional and the consumer. Leave this
class confident in Assessing health information scenarios, Asking
background questions and formulating the searchable question, Acquiring
quality relevant literature, Appraising it for its validity, statistical
significance and patient values and Applying it for patient care or
clinical research. This is a hands-on class.
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LIS 697-07: Geographic Information Systems
Instructor: Jeremiah Trinidad-Christensen
Friday, 5:30-7:50 pm
GIS is a fast growing area in library services with wide ranging
applications across a ariety of disciplines. This new hands-on course
using Quantum GIS (QGIS) software, taught by Jeremiah
Trinidad-Christensen, the GIS/Map Librarian at Columbia University, will
provide a foundation for understanding basic concepts such as raster and
vector data formats, coordinate systems and projections, cartographic
design, spatial analysis, best practices for managing spatial data
resources, and metadata standards for spatial data.
http://library.columbia.edu/indiv/dssc/staff/jeremiah.html
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LIS 697-08: Museums and the Network
Instructors: Aaron Straup Cope & Seb Chan
Tuesday, 6:30-8:30 pm
Museums have been deeply impacted by the changes in the digital landscape.
At the same time they are buffeted by the demographic transformations of
their constituent communities and changes in education. The collapsing
barriers to collection, publishing and distribution afforded by the
internet have further eroded the museum's role as cultural conduit.
Collaboratively taught by Aaron Straup Cope and regular guest Seb Chan the
class will tackle new ways in which museums and collecting institutions
can take best advantage of the "Network" to not simply renew relevance
with their core communities but build new audiences and grow new
superpowers.
We will explore interaction design, data visualisation, spatial
storytelling, data mining, critical digital theory, copyright, and digital
business models through a combination of lectures, readings and in-class
discussions and student presentations. Students will be challenged with
real life practical interactive projects, and exposed to new ways of
working with, for and inside museums at the cutting, sometimes crumbly,
edge of the future-now.
The core student project spanning the duration of the semester will
involve staging an exhibition, that exists at the intersection of the
physical and the internet, from concept through development to what
happens the day after the big opening.
Aaron Straup Cope spent a million years working on the engineering team at
Flickr and a few years making maps at Stamen Design before joining the
Smithsonian Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum.
Seb Chan is the Head of All Things Digital at the Cooper-Hewitt and
formerly the Powerhouse Museum in Sydney.