Subject talk:Library and information science

Plans?
Well, this is a new one on me. I had never heard of Wiki Books or the Wikiversity, and here's an entry for LIS. What ideas do you have for this page? Do you intend to offer a lot of info? Where is all of this going? I'm a young librarian with a passing interest in the wiki and just happened by here.

I'll check back and see who's around later. Good luck!

LIS program
I started the LIS program because I realized that much of what I learned in my MLIS program could be done at my own pace at home. I'm hoping to pass on much of what I payed my hard-earned tuition for, so that others can perhaps learn some of this on their own. The program is loosely structured on the LIS program I attended. As time goes on, I hope to slowly develop each of the "classes."

I of course welcome any additions that anyone can offer.Clifflandis 23:48, 19 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Wiki Research Skills??
I'm teaching electronic media and research skills to high school freshman, and this seems like a really good place to develop a basic primer for such a course. My course covers internet beginnings and history, seach tools, surface web and deep web as resources, information evaluation, and basic library research skills. I'm interested in adding sections on blogging and the wiki-world of information, too.

But here's the thing: These are amazing new ways of constructinig information - but I wonder about how they will develop. It seems it will be increasingly important and necessary to find ways to contextualize these forms of information, and that that needs to be taught to people, too. The wiki-world and the blogosphere need to be understood to be in relation to other more traditional forms of information. In fact, a great part of their value lies in just that fact that they are so free. But, that does not make them necessarily better, more correct, more reliable, less biased, less corrupted than other forms of information. The freedom has value - and that requires a certain acceptance of responsibility on our parts. For young people, most people, really, all "information" is equal. THey jump into a see of words and accept it all. !here is no concern, much less understanding that there IS a context in which we are living, giving, receiving this information, and that that context has meaning, too.

At any rate, getting back to the course, it seems that media skills modules that address some of these aspects of information organization, evaluation, retrieval, and meaning making, could be a great wiki-library tool, useful for all kinds of learners.

What do you all think?

Is this school still active?
Hi there,

I'm new to the WikiWorld and only came across WikiVersity on Friday (25/11). I got all excited and thought I'd build myself a LIS School only to find that this one was already here.

Only thing is that there isn't a lot of content here and there hasn't been much activity recently either. This has got me wondering if the school is still active.

I'd really like to be involved in moving the school forward - It's just I dont want to offend anyone by doing too much and being accused of taking over or worse things

Is the school still being worked on?

Thanks

--Woo 14:58, 27 November 2005 (UTC)

Move from Wikiversity to Wikibooks
This page seems to be a Wikibook, not a school of Wikiversity. I suggest moving the six blue links here to a bookshelf, or merging them into one book. That would fix the present naming-convention problem. --Kernigh 17:23, 1 February 2006 (UTC)

Removed Redirect
Starting an actual wikiversity school at Wikiversity:School:Library and information science.