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B004292 - LIBRARY SCIENCE
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Academic Year 2018-19
Coorte 2017 - 3-years First Cycle Degree (DM 270/04) in HISTORY OF ARCHAEOLOGY, FINE ARTS, ARCHIVES AND LIBRARIES
Course year
Second year - First Semester
Belonging Department
History, Archaeology, Geography, Fine and Performing Arts (SAGAS)
Course Type
Single education field course
Scientific Area
M-STO/08 - ARCHIVAL SCIENCE, BIBLIOGRAPHY AND LIBRARIANSHIP
Credits
12
Teaching Hours
72
Teaching Term
13/09/2018 ⇒ 16/12/2018
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Yes
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Italian
Course Content
The figure of the librarian. Professional ethic. The internationale great tradition from Panizzi, Jewett, Cutter, Lubetzky, Ranganathan, Domanovszky, Gorman to contemporaries. The main Italian librarians: from Guido Biagi to Emanuele Casamassima, Francesco Barberi to contemporaries.
Consistency. The course program is consistent with the aims of the CdS as it presents an international overview of the figure of the librarian and offers a wide range of studies.
Consistency. The course program is consistent with the aims of the CdS as it presents an international overview of the figure of the librarian and offers a wide range of studies.
Suggested readings (Search our library's catalogue)
Mauro Guerrini, De Bibliothecariis, a cura di Tiziana Stagi. Firenze: Firenze University Press, 2017.
Michael Gorman, Our enduring values revisited: librarianship in an ever-changing world. Chicago: ALA Editions, 2015.
Michael Gorman, Our enduring values revisited: librarianship in an ever-changing world. Chicago: ALA Editions, 2015.
Learning Objectives
Modern and Contemporary librarianship through the figures of some protagonists.
From the participation to the course we are expected to have a thorough knowledge of the international great librarian tradition, modified by the commonplace and the superficiality with which the figure is often presented; the librarian is a professional: those who work in the library are not said to be because it is often personal "recycled" by other offices, devoid of any minimal cultural and library preparation.
From the participation to the course we are expected to have a thorough knowledge of the international great librarian tradition, modified by the commonplace and the superficiality with which the figure is often presented; the librarian is a professional: those who work in the library are not said to be because it is often personal "recycled" by other offices, devoid of any minimal cultural and library preparation.
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Periodic assessment of the degree of learning.
Final Examination. Written (Optional) Tesina on a subject covered during lectures and oral exam.
Final Examination. Written (Optional) Tesina on a subject covered during lectures and oral exam.
Course program
What is the librarian's task in the digital era? What ethics, what skills? Analysis of thought and reflection on library formation and public service of leading European and world players. The librarian is a professional: those who work in the library are not said to be because it is often personal "recycled" by other offices, devoid of any minimal cultural and library preparation; the librarian is a professional, an intellectual who has the task of managing a cultural structure and offering efficient services to readers, respecting the identity of each