LIS-S 621 Audio and Video Sources
3 credits
- Prerequisite(s): LIS-S 500, LIS-S 507
- Delivery: Online
- Semesters offered: Spring (Check the schedule to confirm.)
Description
This course provides a comprehensive approach to multimedia resource decision-making, emphasizing collection development to support user services, resource evaluation, and instruction, as well as preservation of multimedia formats, including audio, video, interactive media, and virtual reality. Students will explore strategies for managing and promoting multimedia collections while addressing challenges related to copyright, censorship, and literacy. S621 encourages graduate students to apply these skills across library settings through online resources, discussions, and project-based learning that supports their unique professional needs.
Program Learning Goals Supported
Instructors map their courses to specific LIS Program Goals. Mapped program goals drive the design of each course and what students can expect to generally learn.
- Connect Core Values and Professional Ethics to Practice
- Facilitate Engagement in the Information Ecosystem
- Curate Collections for Designated Communities
- Organize and Represent Information
- Innovate Professional Practice with Information Services and Technology
- Examine Systemic Inequalities to Improve Library and Information Practices Through Equitable and Socially Just Interventions
Learning Outcomes
Instructors develop learning outcomes for their courses. Students can expect to be able to achieve the learning outcomes for a given course after successfully completing the course.
- Develop, manage, and organize multimedia information collections for diverse communities.
- Evaluate multimedia resources.
- Assess access, organization, promotion, copyright, and censorship issues in multimedia collections.
- Develop programs for addressing multimedia literacy needs among diverse user groups.
- Evaluate the skills information professionals need to effectively support patrons with accessing and using multimedia resources and services.
- Discuss current trends and potential futures in multimedia technologies for library services.
- Develop a thematic multimedia collection that includes diverse resources, targeted services, and instructional programs designed for a specific audience and library setting.
Course Overview
Instruction is in Canvas. Lessons are organized into Modules whose length may vary.
Module 1: Overview
Module 2: Collection Development
Module 3: Review and Evaluate Multimedia Sources
Module 4: Audio Sources
Module 5: Video Sources
Module 6: Interactive Media: Games
Module 7: Interactive Media: VR and AR
Module 8: Media Commons, Makerspaces, and Programs
Module 9: Acquiring and Managing Sources
Module 10: Media Literacy
Module 11: Accessibility and Inclusion
Module 12: Artificial Intelligence and Multimedia Creation
Module 13: Preservation
Policies and Procedures
Please be aware of the following linked policies and procedures. Note that in individual courses instructors will have stipulations specific to their course.