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Joseph W. Janes
LIS 520
Seattle Campus
Concepts, processes, and skills related to parts of the life cycle of knowledge involving creation, production, distribution, selection, collection, and services to facilitate access. Specific discussion topics include characteristics of recorded knowledge; organizations and services devoted to managing access to recorded knowledge; principles associated with development of recorded knowledge and collections. Prerequisite: LIS 500.
Class description
At the end of this course, it is expected that students will:
--know the history and characteristics of recorded knowledge, important formats and genres, how they are evolving and changing, including the publishing and information industries --have basic skills in identifying information needs, searching for information to satisfy those needs, presenting and formatting the results of those searches --be able to evaluate resources for individual users and communities --understand principles of developing and maintaining collections
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