Model Curriculum Content for Digital Librarianship

An effort to blend LIS and Computer Science curricula to achieve a more general digital libraries program of study:

• Theoretical and Historical Foundations

  • History of libraries; Human information behavior; Information retrieval theory; Development of digital collections and digital libraries

• Technical Infrastructure of the Digital Library

  • Information retrieval engines; Database construction of digital libraries; Distributed collections; Multimedia formats and applications; Interoperability; Network technology; Web applications in digital libraries; Interface design; Communication protocols; Query languages

• Knowledge Organization in Digital Libraries

  • Metadata; Indexing; Classification; Database integration; Document formats (From Spink and Cool, 1999)

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