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

Course Title & Textbooks

LIS 2000:  Understanding Information
Books: Matthew Battles; Library: An Unquiet History; WW Norton and Company; 2004; ISBN: 0393325644; Required
 
LIS 2001:  Organizing Information
Books:
Organizing Information, 2nd edition.  Arlene G. Taylor.  Libraries Unlimited.  Copyright 2004.  ISBN:  1563089696;
Ambient Findability. Peter Morville. O’Reilly Media.  Copyright 2005.  ISBN: 0596007655
 

LIS 2220: Records & Knowledge Management
Books:
James M. O'Toole and Richard J. Cox, Understanding Archives and Manuscripts, 2nd ed. (Chicago: Society of American Archivists, 2006). ISBN: [Jane, there are copies of this in my office – on my desk -- if you want to get it please]
Randall C. Jimerson, ed.  American Archival Studies: Readings in Theory and Practice  (Chicago: Society of American Archivists, 2000).ISBN: 0931828414
Michael Kurtz, Managing Archival and Manuscript Repositories (Chicago: Society of American Archivists, 2004).ISBN: 1931666091
Frank Boles, Selecting and Appraising Archives and Manuscripts (Chicago: Society of American Archivists, 2005).ISBN: 1931666113
Mary Jo Pugh, Providing Reference Services for Archives and Manuscripts (Chicago: Society of American Archivists, 2005).     ISBN: 1931666121
Kathleen Roe, Arranging and Describing Archives and Manuscripts (Chicago: Society of American Archivists, 2005).ISBN: 193166613X
The Nelson Mandela Foundation, A Prisoner in the Garden (New York: Viking Studio, 2006).ISBN: 0670037532
John Seely Brown and Paul Duguid, The Social Life of Information  (Boston: Harvard Business School Press, 2000). ISBN: 1578517087
Elizabeth Shepherd and Geoffrey Yeo, Managing Records: A Handbook of Principles and Practice (London: Facet Publishing, 2003). ISBN: 1856043703
JoAnne Yates, Control Through Communication: The Rise of System in American Management (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1989). ISBN: 0801846137
James R. Beniger, The Control Revolution: Technological and Economic Origins of the Information Society (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1986). ISBN: 0674169867
Nicholas G. Carr.  Does IT Matter?  Information Technology and the Corrosion of Competitive Advantage (Boston: Harvard Business School Press, 2004). ISBN: 1591394449
 
LIS 2322: Resources & Services for Children
Books: Charlotte Huck's Children's Literature (Hardcover) by Barbara Z. Kiefer; McGraw-Hill Companies; 9th edition that includes access to the related website (January 30, 2007); ISBN-10: 007312298X; ISBN-13: 978-0073122984
 
LIS 2329: Special Education Resources & Service in School Library Media Centers
Books: Ann Turnbull, H. Rutherford Turnbull, Michael L. Wehmeyer, Sean Smith, Marilyn Shank, Exceptional Lives: Special Education in Today's Schools,  Prentice Hall, 5 th Edition,  ISBN: 0-13-170869-4, ISBN-13: 9780131708693,  Required.
 
LIS 2452: Indexing & Abstracting
Books: Reading and Understanding Research.  2nd edition.  Lawrence F. Locke, Stephen J. Silverman, and Waneed Wyrick Spirduso.  Sage Publications.  Copyright 2004.  ISBN:  0761927689;
ASIS&T Thesaurus of Information Science, Technology, And Librarianship (Asist Monograph Series) by Alice Redmond-neal and Marjorie M. K. Hlava. 3rd edition.  Information Today. Copyright 2005.  ISBN: 1573872431;
Introduction to Indexing and Abstracting. 3rd edition.  By Donald B. Cleveland & Ana D. Cleveland.  Libraries Unlimited.  Copyright 2000.  ISBN: 1563086417 (only hardcover is available)
 
LIS 2500: Reference Sources and Services
Books: Juris Dilevko and Candice F.C. Magowan, January 30, 2007, Readers’ advisory service in North American public libraries, 1870-2005:ISBN: 0786429259   McFarland & ompany,Required
Cassell, Kay Ann and Uma Hiremath, 2006, Reference and Information Services in the 21st Century, ISBN: 1555705634, New York.
 

LIS 2600:  Introduction to Information Technologies
Books: Gary B. Shelly, Thomas J. Cashman, Misty E. Vermaat,  Discovering Computers 2008: A Gateway to Information, Complete; 2008 EDITION; ISBN13: 978-1-4239-1205-7 © 2008, ISBN10: 1-4239-1205-5 Thompson Course Technology; Required.
 
LIS 2635:  Information Architecture
Books: Information Architecture for the World Wide Web, Third Edition; Designing Large-Scale Web Sites; November 2006; ISBN 10: 0-596-52734-9; ISBN 13: 9780596527341; Required.
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