Università Roma Tre

Library and Information Science – LIS (AY 2017‐18)

PRESENTATION
Sound abilities in reading (conceived as a set of literacies: functional, multimedia, information…) are required to any citizen in order to
understand the phenomena of our complex, transitional, “liquid” society, and to be able to self‐orienteering and learning in such a globalised and
interconnected context.
Libraries, archives, documentation and information centers (and museums as well) are vital learning environments that enable their users to acquire,
reinforce, improve Information Literacy and therefore a competent use of information.

OBJECTIVES
Becoming aware of the strategic relevance of information literacy and of the role played in it by libraries, especially the school library, in the learning
process in a complex society.
Knowing the theoretical basic fundamentals and acquiring the techniques of Bibliography, Librarianship and Documentation, in particularly concerning:
o Information and documentation as an instructional, educational and cultural resource
o web 2.0 in media and information literacy education and as a means of communication and outreach of library services addressed to academic students
o planning, organization and management of libraries of different types (academic libraries, public libraries, school libraries, children’s libraries) and libraries as a learning environment

PRE-REQUIREMENTS
A basic knowledge of the following fields is appreciated: History, Computer Science (PC, Internet, e‐mail), English language.

TEACHING PROGRAMME
Description
The course is divided in three modules:
1) Introduction (on Info‐complexity, Media and Information Literacy,
Bibliographic research and Academic Writing)
2) Bibliography
3) Librarianship
o Presents and analyzes the definitions of Information Literacy, and, more recently, MIL – Media and Information Literacy, starting from UNESCO and library associations documents;
o Suggests and analyzes approaches and methods of information seeking, taking into account the information overload and digital divide phenomena;
o Reflects on the role of libraries and librarians in contrasting such exclusion phenomena through customized services such as the Reference Library, users’ education, tank to new web 2.0 tools.
Basic concepts of:
1. Bibliography: definition; history in brief; types, reference citation and styles; compilation; tools; ISO standards.
2. Librarianship: definition; history in brief; types of libraries; standards, IFLA guidelines and manifestos, automation;
3. Documentation: types of documents, the documentation chain etc.
Cataloging, Indexing (Dewey, CDU, subject and thesauri), OPAC.
Collection development and space designing and planning.
User education
Library services assessment and evaluation

Course textbooks:
1) Giovanna GRANATA, Introduzione alla biblioteconomia, Bologna: il Mulino, 2014.
2) Marco SANTORO, Lezioni di bibliografia, Milano: Editrice Bibliografica, 2012.
3) un volume a scelta nella collana “Conoscere la biblioteca”, Milano: Editrice Bibliografica

Further teaching materials will be available on Edmodo online platform (select class "Bibl&Bibl-17-18").

Recommended reading:
JOSÉ M. PRELLEZO – JESUS M. GARCIA, Invito alla ricerca. Metodologia e tecniche del lavoro scientifico, Roma: LAS, 2007.