University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
School of Information and Library Science
INLS 310-89
Seminar in Digital Libraries
Spring 1999
Syllabus
Time and Place Instructor: Gary Marchionini Graduate Asst:
6:00-8:30 Tues. Email:
march@ils.unc.edu Email:Room 304 Manning Hall
Office 203 Manning HallPhone (919) 966-3611
Brief Course Description
This seminar will address research and development issues in digital libraries, including: collection development and digitization; mixed mode holdings; access strategies and interfaces; metadata and interoperability; economic and social policies such as intellectual property and equity; technologically enabled, global communities; and management and evaluation. Students will read and discuss documents (paper and electronic), critique a variety of DLs, evaluate a DL of their choice, and produce a term project or paper.
Course Materials
No textbook is required. Readings will be on reserve in the SILS Library or online.
Assignments and Evaluation
Tentative Schedule
Session Topic Assignment
Week 1 Introduction
Jan. 12 Overview of course Read http://ils.unc.edu/~march/digital_library_R_and_D.html
DL definitions Group project
DL examples
Week 2 American Front Porch & sharium
Jan. 19 amplification & augmentation Read proposal
Week 3 Collection Development
Jan 26 User needs
Acquisition
Digitization
Week 4 Multimedia Objects
Feb 2
Week 5 Indexing, storage, maintenance and access
Feb 9
Week 6 Search and browsing services
Feb 16
Week 7 Online reference
Feb 23
Week 8 Instruction and other added values
March 2
Spring Break
Week 9 Interoperation
March 16 Hardware
Software
Content and metadata
Organization
Week 10 Economics
March 23
Week 11 Communities & Social informatics
March 30
Week 12 Design
April 6
Week 13 Evaluation
April 13
Week 14 Projects
April 20
Week 15 Projects
April 27