SLIS Network,Alumni Magazine
Fall 2003
Remember your days in SLIS? The courses? The homework? Here's a sampling of what SLIS students are reading, including instructor's names, course numbers and titles, and selected readings. This does not include every course taught by all our faculty members, or all the required readings. Watch for more sample readings in our Spring issue.
Danny Callison
L551: Information Inquiry for School Teachers
AASL/AECT. (1998). Information literacy standards for student learning. Chicago: ALA.
Thomas, N.P. (1999). Information literacy and information skills instruction: Applying research to practice in the school library media center. Englewood, CO: Libraries Unlimited.
L596: Internship in Library and Information Science
Interns select and annotate one relevant document for every 20 hours of on-site work. Documents may include research or trade/professional journal articles, policy manuals, and electronic sources.
Noriko Hara
L545: Systems Analysis & Design
Beyer, H., & Holtzblatt, K. (1998). Contextual design: Defining custom-centered systems. San Francisco, CA: Morgan Kaufmann.
Robbins, H., & Finley, M. (2000). The new why teams don't work: What goes wrong and how to make it right. San Francisco, CA: Berrett-Koehler Publishers, Inc.
Susan Herring
L567: Gender & Computerization
Cherny, L. & Weise E. (Eds.). (1996). wired_women. Seattle: Seal Press.
Harcourt, W. (Ed.). (1999). women@internet: Creating new cultures in cyberspace. London: Zed Books.
L620: Disability-Related Information Resources
AccessIT, National Center on Accessible Information Technology in Education. (2002). Web site (www.washington.edu/accessit/index.php)
Hanania, R. (1998). The language of disability. Bloomington, IN: Indiana Institute on Disability and Community. Web site (www.iidc.indiana.edu/cedir/language.html)
Jennifer Burek Pierce
L633: Seminar in the Young Adult Novel
Brashares, A. (2001). Sisterhood of the traveling pants. New York: Delacorte Press. Paulsen, G. (2000). The beet fields: Memories of a sixteenth summer. New York: Delacorte Press.
Verna Pungitore
L597: Libraries as Cultural Institutions
Augst, T. & Wiegand, W. (Eds.). (2001). Libraries as agencies of culture. Special issue of American Studies. 42(3).
Ditzion, S.H. (1947). Arsenals of a democratic culture: A social history of the American public library movement in New England & the middle states from 1850 to 1900. Chicago: American Library Association.
Alice Robbin
L547: Organizational Informatics
Daft, R.L. (2001). Organization theory and design (7th edition). Cincinnati, OH: South-Western College Publishing.
Yates, J., & Van Maanen, J. (Eds.). (2001). Information technology and organizational transformation: History, rhetoric, and practice. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, Inc.
Howard Rosenbaum
L608: Seminar in Intellectual Freedom
ALA. Office for Intellectual Freedom. (2002). The library bill of rights. Web site: (http://www.ala.org/Content/NavigationMenu/Our_Association/Governance/Policy_Manual/Intellectual_Freedom.htm)
Wengwert, R.G. (2001). Some ethical aspects of being an information professional. Library Trends. 49(3), 486-210.
Debora Shaw
L524: Information Sources & Services
Bopp, R.E., & Smith, L.C. (2001). Reference and information services (3rd edition). Englewood, CO: Libraries Unlimited.
Joel Silver
L517: History of Libraries
Battles, M. (2003). Library: An unquiet history. New York: Norton.
Casson, L. (2002). Libraries in the ancient world. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.
Joyce Taylor
L623: Information Sources in the Humanities
Blazek, R., & Aversa, E. (2000). The humanities: A selective guide to information sources (5th edition). Englewood, CO: Libraries Unlimited.
Kiduk Yang
L546: Use-Centered Database Design
McFadden, F., Hoffer, J., & Prescott, M. (2002). Modern database management (6th edition). Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley.
Rob, P., & Coronel, C. (2002). Database systems: Design, implementation, & management (5th edition). New York: Prentice-Hall.
Posted November 14, 2003