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– Selected Technology Applications in Information Management
Fall 2010
Tuesdays 6:40pm – 9:15pm
Instructor: Rowena Li (Ph.D.)
Email: rowena.li@qc.cuny.edu
Blog: http://gslis747.qwriting.org
Computer has changed our society, our ways of communication, and the fundamental course of information dissemination. In recent years, social media has joined the course and has changed the online community. With the advent of varieties of digital tools and platforms, users are able to create, change, and publish dynamic content of all kinds. These digital tools have enabled the establishment of openness, transparency, connectedness, and participation on all social and professional levels. For library services, as Buckland (1992) envisioned, these new digital tools will “provide powerful options for working with data, text, sound, and images…There is, predictably, an increasing departure in information handling from the simple pattern of read, think, then write. Computers are used for so much more than the traditional notion of ‘computing’ ”.
This course aims to introduce to the students the most recent technology applications in information management. It is a hybrid course, offered onsite as well as online. Students will examine the paradigm shift in the concept of library services, the definitions of Web 2.0 and Library 2.0, the social use of information, the advantages of social media tools, and the emerging fields of online communication and communities. Students will share their experience in blogs, wiki, Instant Messaging, social bookmarking, and social networking sites, and will discuss the application of each and every tool in library service environment.
Please click the above links - Book Report, Group Presentation, and Social Media Tools - to sign up the activities.
I hope everyone will enjoy the course this semester.
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