New for Spring 2010 for School and Public Libraries!
We're pleased to offer a new series of professional development courses of interest to:
• Educators and administrators in K-12
• School librarians
• Public librarians
All of the courses below are offered online. Check our Online Learning webpage for more information about taking a class online.
Ethical Use Issues: Copyright in the 21st Century Classroom
The explosion of information over the past fifteen years and the ease in which digital file formats can be downloaded have created many problems for educators trying to teach ethical use of resources to their students. This course will provide information about our country's copyright laws and will examine copyright issues pertaining to students and teachers. During the course, we will analyze circumstances and conditions when resources can be used in the classroom, discuss responsible use of traditional and digital resources, identify Internet resources that assist with the teaching of ethical use, and examine strategies to minimize the opportunities for plagiarism in your school/classroom.
The emphasis will be on establishing a school environment that fosters the ethical use of educational resources by clarifying parameters for ethical use, modeling the practice of consistency in attribution, educating students on proper citation practice, and designing teaching units, projects and activities that support academic integrity. Class participants will get a better understanding of copyright issues impacting education in the 21st century and will become aware of related pitfalls and problems that affect educators today.
Please note: This course is a combination of theoretical and practical information about ethical use of educational resources in schools. It is not a course in school or copyright law and the information provided by the instructor is in no way meant to be legal advice about copyright issues.
Sessions: this course is offered online asynchronously; class runs January 19th through May 10th. Instructor: Donna McMullin 3 cr. Enrollment limit: 20.
Social Software Literacy
Explore the Web 2.0 world of social networking and communication with us! Your course is a hands-on approach to learning more about the use of social technologies for information collection, management, dissemination, promotion, and collaboration. You will create and/or use functioning examples of social software and programs for personal and professional use.The social software technology you will explore includes:
• IM
• Wikis
• Blogs
• RSS Feeds (use and create)
• Podcasting
• YouTube
• Photo sharing
• Social bookmarking
• Widgets
• Gaming
Sessions : this course is offered online asynchronously; class runs January 19th through May 10th. Instructor: Gail Palumbo. 3 cr. Enrollment limit: 20.
Community Librarianship: Advocacy, Partnership, and Community Relations
The purpose of this course is to explore the concepts of community relations, partnerships, marketing and advocacy as a core activity of all libraries. You will learn how these disciplines apply to and and are integrated into library management and administration. Specifically, you will:
• Differentiate between community relations, public relations and marketing.
• Become familiar with marketing resources and literature.
• Understand the concept of library as place and develop the ability to present the case for libraries to the public and government officials.
• Understand the basic principles of marketing libraries to the community and the media.
• Understand the importance of building strategic alliances and community partnerships in marketing library programs and services.
• Understand how Web 2.0 technologies can aid in marketing and community partnership building.
• Integrate community relations and marketing skills into a communications plan or marketing project for a library.
Sessions : this course is offered online asynchronously; class runs January 19th through May 10th. Instructor: Penny Talbert. 3 cr. Enrollment limit: 20.
Library Sustainability: Exectuve Training for Public Library Directors and Manager
• Effectively balance “mission” and “margin"
• Tools, and techniques
• A forum to define, re-envision (as necessary) and address, critical issues confronting libraries today
• Real-time application
• Share signature/best practices
The modules of the course include:
• Competition
• Financial and Operational Considerations
• Unique Selling/ or Value Proposition
• Stakeholder engagement and development
• Marketing and Communications
• Value-added/ancillary services
Sessions : this course is offered in a hybrid format that includes some face to face classroom time and mostly online asynchronous interaction; class runs March 15th through April 25th. There is one tentatively planned face to face meeting during week 3 during an evening that week. More details will be available by mid-December. Instructor: Gary Minkoff Enrollment limit: 20.
Digital Libraries
This course will give students a thorough grounding for understanding, evaluating and working with a wide variety of digital libraries:
• the goals of digital library work;
• what digital library projects offer today;
• the major issues affecting progress in the field;
• how to design and plan a digital library.
The subjects covered are the history of digital libraries, the technology used in them, something about their services and organization, how online information resources might be funded, and the legal problems affecting digital libraries. The specific topics covered are:
• Introduction
• History of digital libraries
• Technology
• Services
• Economics
• Law
• Surveys of US and international projects
• Digital preservation
• Future organizational possibilities
Sessions: this course is offered online asynchronously; class runs January 19th through May 10th. Instructor: Judit Ward 3 cr. Enrollment limit: 20.
Registration
Click here to link to our application and registration information.
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For More Information
If you need more information about our classes or how to register, please contact us at 732-932-7169 or
mandrich@rutgers.edu.
