Course Outline for LIBR287-06/LIBR287-15

 

LIBR287-06/LIBR287-15
Seminar in Information Science
The Open Movement and Libraries
Fall 2008

Ellyssa Kroski
IM: AIM ellyssakroski
ellyssakroski [at] yahoo.com
http://www.ellyssakroski.com

Course Syllabus
Course Website
Course Journal 

The Open Movement and Libraries

"Openness" which has become a hallmark of the new Web has long been a mission in libraries. The philosophy of free and open access to information and technology has become a critical subject for information and technology leaders and practitioners. This course will explore the role and participation of library science and librarians in this movement. This course will give an overview of open-source technologies (such as content management systems and ILS programs) which are being used by libraries today, as well as exploring the open access movement which advocates free online access to scholarly research and journal articles. During the course we will also discuss open courses and learning, open conferences, and open licenses (like GPL and Creative Commons). This practical knowledge will be taught with an eye towards students understanding the implications of open access and what it means for libraries and librarians.

Course Outline 

Open Source Software 

OSS Week 1: Open Source Software Overview and Background 

Readings

Resources

·         The Open Source Initiative

·         OSSWatch

Assignments

 

 OSS Week 2: Open Source Software Examples 

Guest Speaker Podcast Interview with TBA 

Resources: Finding Open Source Software

 Operating Systems

Web Servers

Learning Management Systems (Similar to Blackboard)

Content Management Systems/Community Building Software

Blogging Platforms

Wikis

Podcasting

Office Suites

Web Browsers

Media Players

Email

Image Editing

 Assignments

  

 

OSS Week 3: Library Open Source Software 

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An Interview with Nicole Engard
Open Source Evangelist for LibLime

nicole_interview.mp3

Nicole received her MLIS from Drexel University in 2007.  Having worked in libraries for over 7 years, she has recently accepted the position of Open Source Evangelist at LibLime (http://liblime.com).  Starting in web development and moving on to working with metadata and cataloging, she has had the opportunity to work with people in all areas of the library and can be found at conferences around the world presenting on open source and web 2.0 topics.   Nicole is best known for her blog, What I Learned Today... where she writes about technology issues for libraries, and her work in developing a 2.0 friendly intranet at Jenkins Law Library in Philadelphia. In 2007 she was named one of Library Journal's Movers & Shakers and has published several articles on technology and libraries.

Readings

 Integrated Library Systems (ILS)

OPACs

Digital Repository Software (OSS used by both OA & OER)

Federated Searching

Misc.

Commercial Support Services for open source library software

 Assignments

 

 

OSS Week 4: Open Source Software Licensing & Sustainability 

Readings

Resources

Assignments

 

 

Open Education 

OER Week 1: Open Educational Resources Overview and Background 

Readings

Assignments

 

 

OER Week 2: Open Educational Resources Initiatives 

Readings

Open Portals and Gateways

OER Repositories

 OER Initiatives & OCW

 Library-Related OER

 Finding OER

 Assignments

  

OER Week 3: Sustainability, Challenges, and Economic Models of Open Education 

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An Interview with Stephen Downes
Senior Researcher at the National Research Council, Canada.

sdownes_interview.mp3

Stephen Downes is a Senior Researcher for the National Research Council, Institute for Information Technology, in Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada. Stephen is a leading voice in the areas of learning objects and metadata, weblogs in education, content syndication, digital rights and related issues. He is best known for his daily research newsletter, OLDaily (short for Online Learning Daily), which reaches thousands of readers across Canada and around the world. His work also includes the development of educational content syndication systems such as Edu_RSS and DLORN along and the design of a digital rights management system for learning resources. To find out more about Stephen visit his website.

 

Readings

 

Assignments

  

Copyright & Open Licenses 

Copyright & Open Licenses Week 1: Introduction to Copyright & the Public Domain 

Readings

 

Resources

Assignments

  

Copyright & Open Licenses Week 2: Open Licenses 

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An Interview with Jimmy Wales
Founder and President of the Wikimedia Foundation.

jwales_interview.mp3

The founder and President of the Wikimedia Foundation, a non-profit corporation which operates Wikipedia. He has also founded several other wiki projects including the for-profit company Wikia, Inc. . Wales is also a member of the Board of Directors for the Creative Commons. He has just launched a new open source initiative called Wikia Search. To find out more about Jimmy, visit his blog.

 

 

Readings

 Assignments

  

 

Open Access 

OA Week 1: Open Access Overview and Background 

Readings

Major Open Access Statements

Resources

Assignments

 

 

OA Week 2: Green OA: Self Archiving & Repositories 

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An Interview with Dorothea Salo
Digital Repository Librarian at University of Wisconsin

dsalo_interview.mp3

Dorothea Salo is responsible for MINDS@UW , which is the institutional repository for the University of Wisconsin System, consisting of 13 four-year universities, 13 two-year colleges, and the statewide UW Extension.  She holds a master's degree in Library and Information Studies and another in Spanish from the University of Wisconsin at Madison, and a BA in comparative literature and Spanish from Indiana University at Bloomington. To find out more about Dorothea, visit her blog Caveat Lector.

 

Readings

Resources

Institutional Repositories

Disciplinary Repositories

Assignments

 

  

OA Week 3: Gold OA: Open Access Journals 

Readings

Elluminate Session: How to Use the Open Journals System/Basic Setup of Class Journal and Editorial Policies 

Resources

Open Access Journals

 Assignments

  

OA Week 4: Open Access Policy & Business Models 

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An Interview with Peter Suber
Research Professor of Philosophy at Earlham College

psuber_interview.mp3

Peter Suber is a Senior Researcher at SPARC, Visiting Fellow at the Information Society Project of Yale Law School, Research Professor of Philosophy at Earlham College, Open Access Project Director at Public Knowledge, and author of the Open Access News blog and SPARC Open Access Newsletter.  He is also a leading voice in the Open Access Movement.

 

Readings

Major Open Access Policy Mandates

Resources

Assignments

  

Thanksgiving Week

Assignments

 

 

Open Everything Trend

 

Open Everything Week 1: Open Textbooks and Unconferences

Open Textbooks 

Readings 

Open Source Books

 

 Unconferences 

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An Interview with Stephen Francoeur
Information Services Librarian at Baruch College

sfrancoeur_interview.mp3

Stephen Francoeur is an Information Services Librarian at Baruch College, and was one of the organizers of the LibraryCampNYC unconference in 2007. To find out more about him, visit his Digital Reference blog.

 

Readings

 Resources

Library Unconferences 

 Assignments

 

 

 Open Everything Week 2: New Web Initiatives and Wrap-up

Open Web Trends  

Readings

API (Various, 1 page)

Open API (Various, 1 page)

 

Resources

MySpace's Data Availability Project

Facebook Connect

OpenID

Data Portability

Facebook Developers Platform

Google's Open Social

Open Web Foundation

Assignments

 

Please feel free to use, distribute, and remix this course, it is licensed under a CC-BY-SA open license:

 

Creative Commons License
The Open Movement and Libraries Course by Ellyssa Kroski is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.

 

 

 

Special thanks to these professors who made their syllabi & materials openly available for others to learn from and build upon:

 

Dr. David Wiley

INST 7150

Open Education

http://www.opencontent.org/wiki/index.php?title=Intro_Open_Ed_Syllabus

 

and

 

Heather Morrison

LIBR 559K

Open Access

http://www.slais.ubc.ca/COURSES/syllabi/07-08-st1/l559k.htm

 

LIBR 559L

Topics in Scholarly Communication

http://weblogs.elearning.ubc.ca/LIBR559L