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BDMS: The Library: Knowledge Centre of the Past, Present and Future

Vak
2010-2011

Admission Requirements

None.

Description

This multi-faceted course will survey the full range of the library’s tasks today. Through all its historical transformations the library has always remained a crucial centre for the collection, storage and dissemination of knowledge. Topics will be treated by experts in the field (staff members of the Koninklijke Bibliotheek, National Library of the Netherlands) and include the theory and practice of collection development, storage, access and (financial) management; information services; the history of libraries; library materials (from manuscripts to printed and electronic documents); the digital back office; research and development; digitisation and copyright and licensing issues. This thorough survey will equip you to be part of the force that will shape the library’s future.

Course Objectives

  • Gain a broad understanding of the position of libraries in the information age

  • Gain a broad understanding of the development of libraries and their tasks and materials in the past, present and future

  • Gain an understanding of the four main tasks of a library: acquisition, cataloguing, preservation and providing access

  • Getting familiar with the digital back office

  • Gain a broad understanding of current issues: digitisation, library finances, copyright, licensing principles

Timetable

The timetable will be available from July 1 onwards on the Department website. Timetable

Mode of Instruction

Two-hour seminar per week.

Assessment method

A final paper and a take-home examination.

Blackboard

This course is supported by Blackboard.

Reading list

To be announced.

Registration

Students can register through uSis.
Exchange and Study Abroad students, please see the Study in Leiden website for information on how to apply.

Contact information

Department Book and Digital Media Studies, P.N. van Eyckhof 4, room 102c. Phone: 071 527 2144, or by mail: bookstudies@hum.leidenuniv.nl.

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