Course Descriptions

｜Undergraduate Courses 1 ｜Undergraduate Courses 2 ｜

Graduate Courses

A0740 System Analysis of Library Automation Systems (2/0)  Introduction to up-to-date library automation systems. The software process is the way to produce software. The course will focus on the software life cycle and some developing tools. 

A1069 Library and Information Science（2/0）This course focuses on the relationship between knowledge-preserving institutions, including but not necessarily limited to libraries, and their social settings and user communities.  The orientation of the course is strongly multidisciplinary and draws on a variety of perspective as a means for understanding practical problems pertaining to libraries and librarianship.  Specific issues include the sources and roles of information in society, the cognitive, social, economic, political, and ethical aspects of information, the sources of community support for libraries, and the roles and responsibilities of workers in the information professions.  The main goal of the course is a broader social and cultural understanding of libraries, the variety of functions they serve, and the forces that contribute to their survival. 

A1119 Library Cooperatives and Resources Sharing (0/2)  A variety of techniques necessary for understanding the problems and operations of information systems and computer networks, as well as an introduction to the Internet and its variety of research resources, distributed concepts of computer systems, bibliographic utilities and communication protocols and standards. 

A1124 Telecommunication Technology (0/2) Based on the development of electronic publishing, the increasing controversy between commercial and non-commercial scholarly publishers is one of the main concerns of this seminar. The availability of scholarly electronic publishing will be considered as the opportunity and challenge of scholarly publishing community. These issues will also affect all library operations (budget, reference service, handling, storage, etc.).  Starting from its related scholarly communication issues, especially on Journal publishing, are to be discussed.  This seminar also includes: recent developments in scholarly electronic publishing, its impact on publishing industry, application of new technologies, and assessment of future alternatives. 

A1125 Electronic Resource Management (2/0) This course focuses on the ways to manage electronic resources efficiently including the delivery of digital contents to end users and the management of the life-cycle related to electronic resources, such as acquisition, payment, licensing, archiving, preservation, convergence of different types of digital resources , and standards needed to facilitate the management of electronic resources. 

A1247 Seminar in Technical Services (0/2) Focuses on the major issues in the library technical services, including acquisitions, cataloging, continuing resources (formerly called serials), and circulation, especially in the web environments. 

A1381 Library Administration and Management (2/0)  Introduction to library management theories, concepts, processes, and practices as well as an emphasis on designing, organizing, budgeting, controlling and reporting of library operations; techniques and methods of examination and evaluation of personnel performances and of staff development and training. 

A3422 Informetrics (0/2)  A study seeking to quantify, describe, and predict the processes of written communication. The coverage includes the scatter of the literature, growth of the literature, scholarly productivity, collaborative authorship, citation motivation, citation practice, citation problems, evaluation of journalized databases and obsolescence. 

A1449 Publishing and Information Studies (2/0) As yet, no definite picture has emerged on how the library community will exploit the existence of the knowledge warehouse.  As part of the knowledge system, both librarians and publishers will have to consider the problems of handing large amounts of information simultaneously via different channels. Research in the book trade and publishing manifests itself diversely, from technical studies of the publishing to broader attempts to place the book trade in a cultural and commercial context.  Moreover, it is hoped to have the understanding of Taiwan publishing and hence a global view of publishing. 

A2079 Selected Readings of Library and Information Literature (2/0)  Selected English readings on subjects and issues in the field of library and information sciences.  Introduction to some related concepts in obtaining valid evidence in the library management and administration. 

A2290  Cataloging of Electronic Resources (0/2) This course will survey methods for organizing electronic resources, and focus on selected Internet resources. Standards and tools for describing and encoding Internet resources will be covered, such as MARC, Dublin Core, Text Encoding Initiative (TEI), and Encoded Archival Description (EAD), VRA Core, ONIX etc.  

A2291 Reader Services (2/0)  This course is to explore library collection, circulation and reference for the purpose of reader services, as well as the characteristics of the different patron group services. Librarians now must have a clear idea in mind about: the moral discipline of librarians, the education for users, information seeking behaviors of users, networking resources and interlibrary lending. 

A2292  Grey Literature Studies (0/2) Grey literature refers to publications issued by government, academia, business, and industry, in both print and electronic formats, but not controlled by commercial publishing interests, and where publishing is not the primary business activity of the organization. This course is introduction to the characters and types of Grey Literature, Product Organization, Electronic Grey Literature, and discuses to the Future of Grey Literature. 

E1216  Database Structure (0/2)  The course deals with the advanced theory of database, including the structures and the data models of database, such as the relational data model, the hierarchical data model, the network data model and the object-oriented data model, etc. It also covers a study of developing an experimental database system. 

E1393 Knowledge Engineering (2/0) Introduction to knowledge representations, knowledge organizations, semantic networks, topic maps, expert systems, inference engines and intelligent systems. 

T0081 Research Methods (2/0)  This course is designed to prepare the postgraduate students for the performing of information and library science research. This includes identifying important research questions, critiquing research ideas and designs, planning and conducting substantive research investigations, and communicating research ideas and results. 

A2354 Statistics for Information & Library Science (0/2) Introduction to the statistics application in information and library science study. The course is focusing on multivariate analysis, such as ANOVA, MANOVA, Multiple Regression, Factor Analysis, Cluster Analysis…etc. Some tools like SPSS will be used. 

A3530 Electronic Resources Management (2/0) This course focuses on the management of E-resources based on the phases of their "life-cycle", including creation, collection archiving, services, operations, preservation etc..  Related standards and systems will be included. 

A3527 Reading Instruction of Library and Information Science Literature (0/2) This course offers the reading articles selected from the high-circulated English journals and periodicals. In conjunction with the reading instruction, students are expected to study literature covering library management, information technologies and case studies of library operation. 

A3532 Information in Science and Technology (0/2) To provide students with a advance study of the major information sources and services in the sciences and technology, a survey of the research and communications methods characteristic of these majors. The course will consist of lectures, discussions, student presentations, exercises, tests, and a final project. 

A3560 Seminar in Children's Library Services (0/2) Advance study of standards, trends, services, resources and evaluation of the children’s library.  An evaluation of library materials for children with special emphasis on service for children in school and public libraries. Presentation of techniques for assisting in planning and carrying out of reading programs and story hours. 

A2089 Seminar in Information Behavior (0/2) This course explores many aspects related to information-seeking behavior. Information-seeking behavior is increasing critical for all information professionals to understand since it has implications for system design, information service provision, and instruction. Information-seeking theories, methods, and user behaviors will be covered in order to gain an understanding of how different groups of people seek, gather and retrieve information in a variety of information environments. Information-seeking behavior draws on literature from library and information science, psychology, and communications.

A3411 Health Sciences Information Sources and Services (0/2) This course will focus on medical libraries and knowledge-based information in the clinical and research setting. The course is to orient prospective health information professionals to the nature of health and medical information, and the traditional and the electronic means by which such information is organized, stored, and retrieved. 

A3434 Scholarly Communication and Electronic Publishing (0/2)  Electronic (or digital) publishing, whether on CD-Rom or on the Internet, has become a new medium that will have a fundamental effect upon all areas of the book trade and publishing industry. However, the scope and issues of EP are too diversified to focus the research / course schedule. Librarians and information professionals interested in developing their EP knowledge on some specific issues, therefore, with a view to seeking scholarly communication will be an ideal approach. This course, in terms of Scholarly Electronic Publishing (SEP), based on lectures and seminars mainly include course theme and introduction, scholarly journal system, journal crisis, academic e-books, and the emergence of SEP and editorial system as a solution to the electronic communication of the scholarly community. 

A3570 Qualitative research methods (2/0) To introduce the characteristics, principles and process of qualitative research. Several data collection methods are also discussed.

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