Università Roma Tre

Content:
The course:
- takes in account definitions of "Information Literacy" and introduces the concept of "Media and Information Literacy", starting from the most recent documents of Unesco and library associations and institutions
- presents and analyzes several approaches and methos of the information seeking process, with reference to the Information Overload and Digital Divide phenomena
- reflects on the role of library and librarians in contrasting such phenomena, through the development and delivery of customized services (e.g. reference library/work), taking care of the user's education, thanks also to the new social networks that are offered by the web 2.0
- presents the foundational concepts of library and information science (LIS), in particular bibliography, librarianship and documentation (definitions, field of competence, history, relationships amongst the three subjects).

Bibliography (Reference): definition; field of competence; history; types; reference citation and citation styles; compilation of reference lists: the bibliographic chain; tools; ISO standards.

Librarianship: definition; field of competence; history (history of libraries with some history of books and publishing); library types (government, university, public etc. libraries) – Library legislation – Intellectual property and copyright - Library as a complex system – the 5 library laws.

Documentation: Document and documentation - Document types – Information processing - Documentation chain. Information process and management - Descriptive cataloguing: headings choice and form (REICAT) and ISBD - Semantic cataloguing: Dewey, UDC, subject headings and thesauri - OPAC

Teaching Materials:
1. MARCO SANTORO, Lezioni di bibliografia, Milano: Editrice Bibliografica, 2012. ISBN 9788870757224.
2. GIOVANNA GRANATA, Introduzione alla biblioteconomia, Bologna: Il Mulino, 2013.
3. a volume in the series “Conoscere la biblioteca” (Editrice Bibliografica).

Furthermore, some resources developed by the teacher of the course can be accessed in the Moodle platform.