WISE courses available for Summer Term:

1. Managing Information System Projects
   Syracuse University
   Summer 2005 Robert Emborski
   Description: Emphasis on concepts and techniques, focusing on role of managers who work in information systems function of an organization.
   
   
2. Adult Popular Fiction & Reader's Advisory Services
   Syracuse University
   Summer 2005 Jennifer Hendzlik
   Description: A patron has just asked for a good book and as the recipient of this question you have taken on the look of a deer caught in the headlights of an oncoming car. Sweat starts to form on your brow and you ask yourself, what do I do now? Take a deep breath and take this course! This course will provide an introduction to readers’ advisory services in a public library setting by providing you with the solid knowledge base you need to help connect your patron with the book they are seeking. The emphasis of the course will be on genre fiction including mystery, romance, science fiction, inspirational, western, horror, fiction and fantasy. We will also explore readers’ advisory tools, the readers’ advisory interview, the appeal factor of books and different marketing tools that can be used to promote fiction in your library. This is a discussion-oriented class and will be reading intensive.
   
   
3. Organizational Information Security
   Syracuse University IST629
   Summer 2005 Saira Haque
   Description: Personnel/organizational skills for information security managers and officers: staffing, training, certification, incentives, and evaluation of information security personnel, non-security IT personnel, etc.; organizational development related to security awareness, threats, and responses; and ethics/codes of behavior in information security.
   
   
4. Reference and Information Services
   University of Illinois LIS 504LE
   Summer 2005 Jeanne Puacz
   Description: Explores reference and information services in a variety of settings, introduces widely used print and online sources, and develops question negotiation skills and search strategies.
   
   
5. Adult Public Services
   University of Illinois LIS 510LE
   Summer 2005 Lori Bell
   Description: The literature, history, and problems of providing library service to the general adult user; investigation of user characteristics and needs, and the effectiveness of various types of adult services.
   
   
6. Human Resource Management in Libraries and Information Centers
   University of Illinois
   Summer 2005 Debra Johnson
   Description: This course presents theoretical and practical issues in human resources management and their application to libraries and information centers. Areas covered include employee interviewing and selection, evaluation, discipline and termination of employees, decision-making and job satisfaction.
   
   
7. Licensing for the Information Professional
   University of Maryland,
   Summer 2005 Abels and Ruffner
   Description: Fundamental processes and issues in licensing information resources for libraries and information centers, including digital libraries. Importance of licensing in contemporary information services. Major steps in the licensing process. Licensing agreements for electronic resources. Legal requirements of licensing. Role of information professionals in securing licensed resources for their organization.

 WISE courses available for Fall Term:

1. Information Industry Strategies
   Syracuse University
   Fall 2005 Ian MacInnes
   Description: This course examines strategic issues in the information industry, the converging group of industry sectors including hardware, software, telecommunications, information services, and content. The purpose of the course is to develop your knowledge of the information industry so that you can effectively participate in developing strategic responses to competitive changes affecting your future employers. While business strategies are usually implemented by high level managers, they are generally more successful when they are understood by people at all levels of the firm. This course mixes readings that represent significant contributions to the understanding of strategy with recent analyses of segments of the information industry. To illustrate the ideas in these readings we will engage in case discussions that address recent real world examples. This class uses an interactive teaching method, which requires extensive preparation, participation, and involvement from students.
   
   
2. Fantasy and Speculative Fiction
   Rutgers University
   Fall 2005 Staff
   Description: This course offers professionals serving middle and high school students the opportunity to increase your appreciation and knowledge of fantasy and speculative fiction through intense reading and discussion of representative works. Among the authors whose works we will cover are Ursula LeGuin, William Sleator, and Robin McKinley. You will read texts on topics such as reader response/reception theory and explore the nature of literary response through examination of your own responses the responses of the other professionals in the class. Finally, we will investigate and consider options for teaching Fantasy and Speculative Fiction with young people.
   
   
3. From Seuss to Sendak to Sis
   Rutgers University
   Fall 2005 Michael Joseph
   Description: This course will study the development of children's book illustration in the work of three masters of the twentieth century. You will explore the picture books of Dr. Seuss, Maurice Sendak, and Peter Sis, considering issues such as the use of history made by each illustrator and his concern for social context, the relationship of image to text and of illustration to a linear narrative, and repeating motifs and symbols that join individual publications into an organic whole. Students in the course will be divided into groups which will explore the three illustrators; this exploration will include a look at work by other important 20th century contemporaries such as Hillary Knight, Mitsumasa Anno, and Quentin Blake. The final weeks of the semester will be a conference period during which the groups will share some of the papers they have written and together discover how different perceptions, research, and group dynamics led to alternate hypotheses about these three masters.
   
   
4. Managing Information System Projects
   Syracuse University
   Fall 2005 Robert Emborski
   Description: IST 575 covers the issues necessary for successful management of information systems projects. Technical and behavioral aspects of project management are discussed. Major topics include: Managing the project adoption issues such as selection and approval of projects, cost/benefit analysis and requirements analysis; Planning for systems development and estimation; Scheduling and implementation issues such as project organization, implementation, and control; project closure
   
   
5. Applied Economics for Information Managers
   Syracuse University
   Fall 2005 Bruce Kingma
   Description: Economics principles relevant to management of information functions in organizational contexts. Core microeconomic concepts applied to the marketplace for information products and services. Financial tools used for managing information systems and networks.
   
   
6. Seminar in Intellectual Freedom
   University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
   Fall 2005, Thomas Walker
   Description: Principles and practices of intellectual freedom, as related to the information professions. Emphasizes, but is not limited to, current issues in the U.S.