1	CS 6210 - Special Topics in CS: Digital Libraries and Computing for the Humanities A Crash Course in Library and Info Science Module 1 Min-Yen KAN
2	Thoughts from last time Differences between the digital library and the physical library Database? WWW?
3	The Memex What issues did Bush bring up in the excerpt read last week? Access Annotation
4	Changes in curriculum 20-minute student paper presentations to feature in the last three classes. Should focus on papers in your survey. Surveys are individual; but presentations will be by group. 10% of your final grade, the balance coming from your final project grade (from 50% à 40%). Balloting will be done for survey and presentation to ensure balanced subjects Your suggestions to improve this procedure more than welcome!
5	Outline Today: A brief history of libraries Raganathan’s Laws The Information Seeking Process Reference Interviews Discussion on article Next week: Library Evaluation
6	The Library of Nineveh Collection of over 1500 clay tablets Had a standardized writing script, oven-baking process and tablet-making procedures. Subjects: Mostly supernatural Records of King’s deeds
7	The Libraries of Alexandria Perhaps about 600,000 books ___________ Translated pagan works Collection building Most famous for its (gradual) destruction
8	Aspects of ancient libraries Record knowledge, but also Enhance prestige ____________ ______________ Class distinction Archiving / Preservation
9	Library of Congress For lawmaker’s reference, but also for the public Some history: Burned once by the British in 1814 Bought Pres. Jefferson’s 6k+ collection as starting collection
10	Library of Congress _______ gave the LoC a copy of each book published Also forced the LoC to develop the MARC standard for interchange 120 M items, including 18 M books 39 M manuscripts 13 M photographs 4 M maps .5 M pieces of music .5 M motion pictures
11	New York Public Library 4 Research libraries 42 M items 2 M users 2 M items accessed/year 85 Branch libraries 10 M items 12 M users 12 M items circulated
12	New York Public Library 118 M USD for research libraries 134 M USD for branch libraries Organizational Structure
13	National Library Board Established in 1996 from the National Library 7.6 M items; 6.4 M books ~28 M loans 27 M library visitors by 2 M users Structure: National Library 2 Regional Libraries 18 Community Libraries 43 Community Children’s Libraries
14	Aspects of the modern library
15	Objectives of the Library Ranganathan (1957) Books are for use Every reader his book Every book its reader Save time of the reader The library is a growing organism
16	Break time – Yay! When we come back: Did you read the required article? Information Seeking Reference Interviews Discussion on article: The Earth’s Largest Library
17	The Earth’s Largest Library Amazon’s trick in cataloguing User Interface Issues Patron centered UI Properties of the problem different from Amazon
18	References Annotated Selected Bibliography of Full-Text Web-Based Articles Relating to Library Instruction http://library.morrisville.edu/sunyla/lic/fulltext.html
19	Next time Finish up LIS and we’ll move onto Fundamentals of Information Retrieval. Pick a topic for your survey paper by next class. See the course website for details. Readings: Buckland, Michael (92) Redesigning Library Services: A Manifesto. Supplemental: Nardi, Bonnie A. (99) Librarians: A Keystone Species, In Information Ecologies, MIT Press. RBR. Supplemental: Bush, Vannevar (45) As we may think. The Atlantic Monthly.