Readings & Videos
Required Texts
Knox, Karen C. Implementing Technology Solutions in Libraries : Techniques, Tools, and Tips from the Trenches. (Information Today, Inc., 2011. ISBN 978-1-57387-403-8)
Additional recommended texts
Allan, Barbara. Project Management: Tools and techniques for today's ILS professional. (Facet Publishing, 2004, ISBN 1-85604-504-8)
Cohn John M., Kelsey, Ann L. and Fiels, Keith Michaels. Planning for Integrated Systems and Technologies: a how-to-do-it manual for librarians (Neal-Schuman Publishers, 2001, ISBN 1-55570-421-2)
Courtney, Nancy. Library 2.0 and Beyond: Innovative Technologies and Tomorrow's User. (Libraries Unlimited, 2007, ISBN 978-1-59158-537-4)
Iglesias, Edward, editor. An Overview of the Changing Role of the Systems Librarian: Systemic Shifts (Chandos Publishing, 2010, ISBN 978-1-84334-598-5)
Ingersoll, Patricia & Culshaw, John. Managing information technology: a handbook for systems librarians. (Libraries Unlimited, 2004, ISBN 0-313-32476-X)
Kochtanek, Thomas R. and Matthews, Joseph R. Library Information Systems : from library automation to distributed information access solutions (Libraries Unlimited, 2002, ISBN 1-56308-966-1)
vanDuinkerken, Wyoma and Mosley, Pixey Anne. The Challenge of Library Management: Leading with Emotional Engagement. (American Library Association, 2011, ISBN 978-0-8389-1102-0)
Wilson, Thomas C. The systems librarian : designing roles, defining skills. (American Library Association, 1998, ISBN 0-8389-0740-7)
Schedule of Readings & Videos
The following is a list of the required readings & videos to view for each week. These readings are meant to supplement the in-class discussions and presentations as background information. All readings and videos scheduled for the week shoud be completed prior to the first day of class for that week. A link to this page can be also found on the page for each week. Additional readings or videos may be added during the course of the quarter, and these will be announced to the entire class by the instructor.
Unit 1, Week 1:
- What is a MARC record and Why Is It Important?
- VIDEO: The card catalog (Dead Media Project - Kristie Harris)
- VIDEO: The last card (University of Michigan)
Unit 1, Week 2:
- Chudnov: Practical Geek-Keeping, or, How to Hire - and keep - Good Technical Staff
- Gordon: Overcoming the systems librarian imposter syndrome.
- Jordan: The self-education of systems librarians
- LaBrosse: Knowledge Worker 2.0: The skills you need to adapt
- Rossman: Twenty tips for becoming more computer savvy: Or, how to think like a systems librarian
Unit 1, Week 3:
- Englund: What is not a project?
- Revels: Managing Digital Projects
- Schacter: Managing your library's technology projects.
- Textbook: Chapters 1 & 2
- VIDEO: The History of Project Management
- VIDEO: How to Deal with Difficult People
- VIDEO: Managing Negative Reactions to Change
- VIDEO: Leading and Managing Change
- VIDEO: The Positive Reaction to Change
Unit 1, Week 4:
- Calvert & Read: RFP's: a necessary evil or indispensable tool?
- Cervone: ILS migration in the 21st century: some new things to think about this time around.
- Clegg & Montgomery: How to write an RFP for information products.
- Textbook: Chapter 3, 4, 5 & 6
Unit 2, Week 5:
- Dula, Jocobsen, Ferguson & Ross: Implementing a new cloud computing managment service
- Kinner & Rigda: The integrated library system: from daring to dinosaur?
- Breeding: The elusive cost of library software.
- Cibbarelli: Helping you Buy ILSs
- Textbook: Chapters 7, 8, 9 & 10
Unit 2, Week 6:
- Blowers: Determining if open source is right for you
- Breeding: The Viability of Open Source ILS
- Colford: Explaining Free and Open Source Software
- Rapp: Open Source Reality Check
- Schneider: The Thick of the Fray: Open Source Software in Libraries in the First Decade of this Century
- Terlaga: Fear and Trembling in Connecticut (or 'How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Open Source)
- Textbook: Chapters 11, 12 &13
- VIDEO: Cloud Computing explained
Unit 2, Week 7:
- Denholm, Kauler, Lavelle & Sokvitne: Making the new OPAC seamless: dealing with the transition from "finding" to "getting"
- Emmanuel: Next Generation Catalogs -- What do they do and Why should we care?
- Hoffman & Yang: How Next-Gen R U?
- Webb & Nero: OPACs in the Clouds
- VIDEO: WorldCat Local: The Nuts and Bolts by Steve Shadle, Serials Access Librarian, University of Washington Libraries
- VIDEO: WorldCat Local @ Macalester by Angi Falks, Associate Director, DeWitt Wallace Library, Macalester College
Unit 3, Week 8:
- Breeding: The State of the Art in Library Discovery 2010
- Brubaker, Leach-Murray & Parker: Implementing a discovery layer -- a rookie's season
- Hoeppner: The ins and outs of evaluating web-scale discovery services
- Luther & Kelly: The Next Generation of Discovery
- Yang & Wagner: Evaluating and comparing discovery tools: how close are we towards next generation catalog?
- VIDEO: New Generation Discovery Tools: New Tools, Aging Standards by Peter E. Murray, Assistant Director, New Service Development, OhioLINK
Unit 3, Week 9:
- Breeding: Social Networking Strategies for Professionals
- Breeding: Taking the Social Web to the Next Level
- Kiyotake: Synergy - Creating a Library Website with Social Interaction and a Collection Focus
- Starr: California Digital Library in Twitter-land
- VIDEO: Libraries are screwed, part one
- VIDEO: Libraries are screwed, part two
- VIDEO: Evolution Web 1.0, Web 2.0 to Web 3.0
Unit 3, Week 10:
- Breeding: New library collections, new technologies: new workflows
- Breeding: Coping with complex collections:managing print and digital
- Eisenberg: The parallel information universe.
- Pace: 21st Century Library Systems
- VIDEO: Library 2.0 Panel: The Future of the Library, Part 1 (Yale University)
- VIDEO: Staffing the Library of the Future in Plain English (Presentation by Mal Booth, Sophie McDonald and Belinda Tiffen, UTS Library)
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