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

Course
2011-2012

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.

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 avialable by June 1st on www.hum.leidenuniv.nl/book-digital-media-studies.
h3. Mode of Instruction

Two-hour seminar per week.

Assessment

A final paper (50%) and a take-home examination (50%).

Blackboard

This course is supported by Blackboard.

Reading list

To be announced.

Registration

Students should register through uSis. Exchange studentens cannot register through, but must see the director of studies and register there. If you have any question please contact the departmental office, tel. 071 5272144 or mail: bookstudies@hum.leidenuniv.nl.

Exchange and Study Abroad students, please see the Study in Leiden website for information on how to apply.

Contact information

Departmental Office Book and Digital Media Studies, P.N. van Eyckhof 4, room 102C. Tel. 071 5272144; mail: bookstudies@hum.leidenuniv.nl.
Coordinator of Studies Master: Ms. K. van der Zeeuw-Filemon, P.N. van Eyckhof 4, room 103C.

Remarks

No remarks.