Schedule for Information Technologies for Libraries and Information Agencies

Online - Summer 2018

Week	Topic	Readings	Due
Week 1 5/29-6/3	Introduction: Course Overview. Social Software Tools (Wikis). Multimedia Basics: Working with Images, Audio and Video.		Discuss1
Week 2 6/4-10	Web Services: Screencasting, Surveys, Google Docs, Widgets. RSS, XML and Metadata (e.g., how it relates to organization of information and the workflow of integrated library systems). Internet and the World Wide Web (1): Basic HTML, SFTP, Permissions.	Castro + Hyslop Ch1-4 Ch5-6 Ch17-18	Ex1
Week 3 6/11-17	Internet and the World Wide Web (2): Links, Tables, Images, Styles in HTML. Web Services: Google Analytics. Cascading Style Sheets (1) (CSS).	Castro + Hyslop Ch7-11 Ch15 Ch20	Ex2 Ex1 Rev Quiz1
Week 4 6/18-24	Cascading Style Sheets (2) (CSS) Basic Web Design Principles Testing & Debugging Pages (Check Easy Things First) Dynamic Web Programming Concepts Basics of Web Programming (1) (JavaScript).	Castro + Hyslop Ch16 Ch19 Nixon Preface Ch1 Ch11 Ch14	Ex3 Ex2 Rev Discuss2
Week 5 6/25-7/1	Forms in HTML and Basics of Web Programming (2) (JavaScript). Databases (1) (MySQL)	Nixon Ch8 Ch3-6 Ch10	Ex4 Ex3 Rev Quiz2
Week 6 7/2-8	Databases (2) (MySQL) and Server Side Scripting (1) (PHP) Databases (3) (MySQL) and Server Side Scripting (2) (PHP)	Nixon Ch17	Ex5 Ex4 Rev
Week 7 7/9-15	Recap of Key Concepts for Web Programming (JavaScript), Databases (MySQL) and Server Side Scripting (PHP) Evaluating Software Systems and Tools (open source software tools). Working on Exercises & Project.		Discuss3 Ex5 Rev Quiz3
Week 8 7/16-20	How 550 connects to other MLIS courses: Digital Libraries, IR, Multimedia Production, Information Visualization, Interface Design. Working on Exercises & Project. Course Review and Term Projects.		TP