INLS 235
Day 1
1/6/2004
1. Course overview
Syllabus http://ils.unc.edu/~march/courses/235_s04/syllabus.html
Class list : subscribe to inls235_s04 (go to lyris.unc.edu to subscribe)
Term Project discussion (linked from syllabus)
DL Review discussion (linked from syllabus)
2. What is a digital library?
[consider answering what is a
library] How many libraries are in the
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US
Libraries (Statistical Abstracts of US) |
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1980 |
1998 |
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Total |
31564 |
37519 |
18.9% |
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Public |
8717 |
9815 |
12.6% |
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public
branches |
5936 |
6435 |
8.4% |
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Special |
7649 |
9898 |
29.4% |
(medical,
relegious, law) |
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Academic |
4591 |
4700 |
2.4% |
(non
K-12) |
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Government |
1260 |
1897 |
50.6% |
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Military |
485 |
363 |
-25.2% |
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http://www.census.gov/prod/2001pubs/statab/sec04.pdf
Library/archives and curators employed (dept of labor): 213,000 in 1983, 264,000 in 1999
Librarians (193,000 in 1983, 236,000 in 1999)
If looking at businesses: http://www.census.gov/epcd/susb/1999/us/US51412.HTM then 2590 with 31031 employees (1999 data)
As a gauge, there were 89,508 K-12 schools in 1997-98. There were 16044 school districts in 1980 and 14842 in 1999.
There were 68,000,000 students K-college in 2000 (38M K-8, 15M 8-12, 15M college)
There were 2.5M teachers in 1980, 3.2M teachers in 1999
Are digital librarians also records managers? Content managers? Knowledge managers? If so, then the opportunities go up dramatically.
DL Introduction (Powerpoint slides)
3. One-minute paper
What was the main point you learned in class today?
What is the main, unanswered question you leave class with today?