Graduate Library Media
Graduate Library Media
2023 Fall Term
Disclaimer
- This course listing is informational and does not guarantee availability for registration.
- Please click through to view the class schedule to see sections offered for your selected term.
- Sections may be full or not open for registration. Please use WINS if you wish to register for a course.
ORGANIZING INFORMATION
LIBMEDIA 651
Learn to describe information resources clearly, assess their information potential, and use strategies and procedures that will help somebody seeking information find what they need. Become familiar with formal and informal strategies for facilitating subject access, such as MARC records, tagging, metadata, controlled vocabularies, abstracting and classification. Address intellectual and practical issues related to creating structured access to information in all formats.
LIBRARY ADMINISTRATION
LIBMEDIA 654
The theories, principles and processes underlying the organization and administration of school and public library services: planning, organizing staffing, budgeting, acquiring, and accessing resources, evaluating, scheduling, promoting and marketing, equipping, housing and policy development. Emphasis is on planning, leadership, working toward change and the new roles and responsibilities of the library professional.
LIBRARY MEDIA DIRECTED TEACHING - ELEMENTARY
LIBMEDIA 711
Offered on a pass/fail basis only. Professional laboratory experience under the guidance of carefully selected, qualified cooperating librarians in elementary school libraries in Wisconsin. This is a graduate level Student Teaching option for students working toward 1902 school library media certification.
INFORMATION, VIRTUAL LIBRARIES & THE INTERNET
LIBMEDIA 756
Students will address the practical, intellectual and societal issues associated with the change from physical to virtual libraries. They will learn to use equipment, software, and strategies to find, evaluate, organize, provide access to, and disseminate textual, audio, graphical and video information.
SUPERVISED SCHOOL LIBRARY PRACTICUM COMBINED
LIBMEDIA 793C
This course provides licensed teachers in the school library program with the opportunity to fully develop, practice, and reflect upon skills acquired through coursework in a supervised field experience in an elementary and a secondary school library and in work in their own schools. Students create a portfolio demonstrating mastery of program competencies.