Department of Library & Information Science
School of Information Sciences, University of Pittsburgh

Library & Information Science Courses
Spring Term Course Schedule 2006 (2064)
Begins: January 4, 2006– Ends: April 29, 2006

Primary Academic Program Code for LIS: 940830

Class Number

Catalog Number
Prerequisites

Instructor

16026

LIS 2000:  Understanding Information
Matthew Battles, Library: An Unquiet History, W.W. Norton & Company, 2004, ISBN: 0393325644, Required.

Carbo, T.

16093

LIS 2001:  Organizing Information
Taylor, Arlene Organization of Information, Libraries Unlimited, 2nd Edition, ISBN: 1563089696, Required.

Gross, T.

16029

LIS 2002: Retrieving Information
Walker, Geraldene and Joseph Janes, Online Retrieval: A Dialogue of Theory and Practice, Libraries Unlimited, 2nd Edition,1999, ASIN: 1563086573, Required.

Ripple, A.

Dalai Lama, Ethics for the New Millennium, Penguin Group, 1999, ISBN: 1573228834, Required.

16115

LIS 2214: Lib & Archival Preservation
Pre:  None

Werner, K.

16059

LIS 2222: Archival Appraisal
Michael F. Brown, Who Owns Native Culture? Harvard University Press, 2003, ISBN 0674016335, Required.

Richard J. Cox, Documenting Localities: A Practical Model for American Archivists and Manuscripts Curators, Scarecrow Press, 1996, ISBN: 0810840103, Required

Richard J. Cox, No Innocent Deposits: Forming Archives by Rethinking Appraisal, Scarecrow Press, 2004, ISBN: 0810848961, Required

Helen W. Samuels, Varsity Letters: Documenting Modern Colleges and Universities, Scarecrow Press, 1992, ISBN: 0810834987,Required

Cox, R.

Erma Parks, Long Shadows: Truth Lies, and History, Bloomsbury, 2001, ISBN B0002D6DJM, Required.

Deborah Lipstadt, History on Trial: My Day in Court with David Irving, ECC, 2005, ISBN:0060593768, Required.

Richard J. Evans, Lying About Hitler; History, Holocaust, and the David Irving Trial, Basic Books, 2002, ISBN: 0465021530, Required.

Nathan G. Theoharis, A Culture of Secrecy: The Government Versus the People’s Right to Know, Lawrence University Press of Kansas, 1998, ISBN: 0700609989, Required.

Timothy W. Luke, Museum Politics: Power Plays at the Exhibition, University of Minnesota Press, 2002, ISBN 0816619891, Required.

Barbie Zelizer, Covering the Body: The Kennedy Assassination, the Media, and the Shaping of Collective Memory, University of Chicago Press, 1992, ISBN: 0226979717, Required.

Janna Malamud Smith, Private Matters: In Defense of the Personal Life, Addison-Wesley Publishing Co., Inc., 1997, ISBN 1580051073, Required.

Edwin Black, IBM and the Holocaust: The Strategic Alliance Between Nazi Germany and America’s Most Powerful Corporation, Crown Publishers, 2001, ISBN 0609808990, Required.

Richard J. Cox and David A. Wallace, Archives and the Public Good: Accountability and Records in Modern Society, Quorum Books, 1001, ISBN 1567204694, Required.

Richard J. Cox, Flowers After the Funeral: Reflections on the Post-9/11 Digital Age, Scarecrow Press, 2003, ISBN:081084835X, Required.

LIS 2224: Archival Representation
Steven L. Hensen, Archives, Personal Papers, and Manuscripts: A Cataloging Manual for Archival Repositories, Historical Societies, and Manuscript Libraries, 2nd ed. (Chicago: Society of American Archivists, 1989). Z695.2 H46 1989 Required.

Fredric M. Miller, Arranging and Describing Archives and Manuscripts (Chicago: Society of American Archivists, 1990). Z695.2 M55 1990 Required.

Encoded Archival Description Working Group of the Society of American Archivists, Encoded Archival Description Tag Library: Version 2002 (Chicago: Society of American Archivists, 2002). (http://www.loc.gov/ead/tglib/index.html; version 1.0 in library: Z 695.2 S67 1998). Required.

Encoded Archival Description Working Group of the Society of American Archivists, Encoded Archival Description Application Guidelines: Version 1.0 (Chicago: Society of American Archivists, 1999). Z 695.2 S63 1999. Available online at http://www.loc.gov/ead/ag/aghome.html Required.

Michael J. Fox and Peter Wilkerson, Introduction to Organization and Description: Access to Cultural Heritage (Los Angeles: Getty, 1999). Available online at: http://www.schistory.org/getty/index.html . Required.

Nicholson Baker, Double Fold: Libraries and the Assault on Paper, Random House, 2002, ISBN: 0-375-72621-7, Required.

Nicholas Basbanes, A Gentle Madness: Bibliophiles, Bibliomanes, and the Eternal Passion for Books, Henry Holt, 1999, ISBN: 0805061762 Recommended.

Gavin D. R. Bridson and D. E. Wendel, Pintmaking in the Service of Botany, Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation, 1986, ISBN:0-913196-49-5, Required.

Jeffery Brooks, When Russia Learned to Read, Princeton University Press, 1985, ISBN: 0-691-00821-3, Required.

John Carter and Nicholas Barker, ABS for Book Collectors, 8th Edition, Oak Knoll Press, 2004, ISBN: 1-58456-112-2, Required.

Lionel Casson, Libraries in the Ancient World, Yale University Press, 202, ISBN: 03000097212, Required.

Richard J. Cox, Vandals in the Stacks, Greenwood Press, 2002, ISBN: 0-313-32344-5, Required.

Robert Darnton, The Business of Enlightenment, Harvard University Press, 1979, ISBN: 0-674-08786, Required.

E. Eisenstein, The Printing Revolution in Early Modern Europe, Cambridge University Press, 2005, ISBN: 0521607744, Required.

Dee Garrison, Apostles of Culture: The Public Librarian and American Society, 1876-1920, 2nd Edition, University of Wisconsin Press, 2003, ISBN: 0-297-18114-6, Required.

Phillip Gaskell, A New Introduction to Bibliography, Oak Knoll Press, 1995, ISBN: 1-884718-13-2, Required.

Adrian Johns, The Nature of the Book, University of Chicago Press, 1998, ISBN: 0-226-40122-7, Required.

Frederick G. Kilgour, The Evolution of the Book, Oxford University Press, 1998, ISBN: 0-19-511859-6, Required.

Alberto Manguel, A History of Reading, Penquin Press, 1996, ISBN: 0-1401-6654-8, Required.

Thomas Mann, Oxford Guide to Library Research, Oxford University Press, 2005, ISBN: 0195189981, Recommended.

Henry Petroski, The Book on the Bookshelf, Random House, 2000, ISBN: 0-375-70639-9, Required.

Joseph Rosenblum, Practice to Deceive, Oak Knoll Press, 2000, ISBN: 1-58456-010-X, Required.

Abigail A. Van Alyck, Free to All, Carnegie Libraries and American Culture, 1890-1920, University of Chicago Press, 1995, ISBN: 0-226-85032-3, Required.

Ronald J. Zboray and Mary Saracino Zboray, A Handbook for the Sutdy of Book History in the United States, Washington D.C. Center for the Book, 2000, ISBN: 0-8444-1015-2, Required.

16035

LIS 2323: Resources for Young Adults
No Required Text.

Biagini, M.

Susan Meyer, A Treasury of Great Children's Illustrators, Harry N. Abrams, 1997, ISBN: 0-8109-2694-6, Required.

Molly Bang, Picture This: How Pictures Work, Seastar Books, 2000-08, ISBN: 1587170302, Required.

16034

LIS 2537: Gvrnt Infor Resources & Services

Knapp, A.

16085

LIS 2585: Hlth Consumer Resources & Svcs
Requires only one online text, freely available at: http://nnlm.gov/scr/conhlth/manualidx.htm

Dorsey, M.

16058

LIS 2600:  Intro Information Technologies
Pre: None

TBA

18309

LIS 2663:  Technologies for Information Management
Art Rhyno, Using Open Source Systems for Digital Libraries, Libraries Unlimited, 2003, ISBN: 159158065X, Required.

Eric A. Meyer, Cascading Style Sheets: The Definitive Guide, O'Reilly Media, Inc, 2nd Edition, ISBN: 0596005253, Required.

Chuck Musciano, Bill Kennedy, HTML & XHTML: The Definitive Guide, O'Reilly Media, Inc, Fifth Edition, ISBN: 059600382X, Required.

Tomer, C.

Maxine K. Sitts, ed., Handbook for Digital Projects: A Management Tool for Preservation and Access, 1st ed. (Andover, MA: Northeast Document Conservation Center, 2000). Abbreviated as HDP throughout syllabus. Available online at: http://www.nedcc.org/digital/dman.pdf, Required.

Anne R. Kenney and Oya Y. Rieger, Moving Theory into Practice: Digital Imaging for Libraries and Archives (Mountain View, CA: Research Libraries Group, 2000). Abbreviated as MTP throughout syllabus. On reserve. Z 681.3 D53M68 2000, Required.

16039

LIS 2922: Pracm in Schl Lib Medial Programs
No Text Required.

Biagini, M.

18349

LIS 2970: Special Topics: Information Visualization
Robert Spence, Information Visualization, Addison-Wesley, 1st Edition, 2000, ISBN: 0201596261, Textbook unavailable.

Chaomei Chen, Information Visualization: Beyond the Horizon, 2nd edition." (2004) Springer, ISBN: 1852337893,Required.

Koshman, S.

21214

LIS 3600: Seminar in Information Systems & Technology (Qualitative Research Methods)
G.E. Gorman & P. Clayton, Qualitative Research for the Information Professional: A Practical Handbook , Facet Publishing, 2005, 2nd Edition, ISBN: 1-85604-472-6, Required.

D. Silverman, Qualitative Research: Theory, Method and Practice, Sage Publications, 2nd Edition, 2004, ISBN: 0-7619-4934, Required.

A.M. Huberman & M. B. Miles, The Qualitative Researcher’s Companion, Sage Publications, 2002, ISBN: 0-7619-1191-X, Required.

Shulman, S.

16105

LIS 3800: Seminar in Behavior & Service Issues
No Text Required.

Detlefsen, E.