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LIS S604 Plug, Play, Personalize Section 45229 Instructor: Austin Stroud 1 credit hour course, offered first three weeks of Fall 2021 semester. Do you enjoy customizing or playing around with various web interfaces and tools?  A three week version of LIS S604: Plug, Play, and Personalize will be offered August 23 – September 12.  In… Read more »

LIS-S 604 Design for Informal Learning Environments Section 45508 Librarians are increasingly asked to facilitate learning. Facilitated learning within libraries traditionally took place in story times, book clubs, crafts, and information literacy sessions. Although these traditional services are still needed, library professionals are challenged to design and facilitate learning environments that are less structured and more emergent with the use of digital tools and technology that support the knowledge acquisition, creation, refinement and… Read more »

Open Educational Resources (OER) are Creative Commons licensed works that are free to access, distribute, and revise. In this 3-week course, we will review the what, why, and “how” of OER. Lessons will cover the need for OER materials in both academic and public library contexts, copyright and Creative Commons, OER publishing, and current OER… Read more »

Electronic resources have long been a part of the library landscape but never before have they been as crucial as the past few years. With more and more students, patrons, and end-users being forced to use library services outside the library, electronic resources have soared into the spotlight as a crucial library service. In Advanced… Read more »