[schedule]
[syllabus] [readings]
[evaluation] [final project]
[UNC]
[SILS]
[REB]
[PLA Blog]
[Library Journal]
[Value
of Libraries]
[Lib Rarin']
[ITS Tips]
[Other Lives]
Evaluation
The course grade will be based on two assignments and class participation:
40% Shared topics:
After the initial context discussions conclude, we will step off into topics of
your choice. Each of you will select preparatory readings and make them
available online. You will plan to start the session with a presentation,
followed by a guided discussion.
40% Final project:
Your major product for this seminar will be a fuller exploration of your special
interest topic. We will, as a group, develop an annotated bibliography of
significant sources of information on public libraries. Our model will be
American Library History: A Bibliography by Michael H. Harris and Donald G.
Davis, Jr. (which includes a foreword by Edward G. Holley), published in 1978 by
the University of Texas Press. Each of you will contribute a section to the
bibliography, expanding on your special interest topic. We will seek to have the
bibliography published as a SILS Technical Report and use it to update it inputs
from previous public library seminars.
20% Daily expectations:
Read the linked file and write a more-or-less single-page, double-spaced
consideration of what you have read. There is no set format to what you write;
it should just reflect your thoughts on the topic. Send the consideration to me
as an email attachment by 0800 on the day of each session. Then plan to engage
in a free-ranging discussion of the topic during the session.
We will use the normal P & H system, with gradations as appropriate.
