I enjoy when students talk about their courses. I find that each department approaches the dicipline and professional practice in such different ways.
Just picked my courses:
FIS2127H – Collection, Development, Evaluation and Management
FIS2172H – Readers’ Advisory:Reference Work and Resource
FIS2300H – Special Topics: Information Literacy
FIS2199H – Special Topics in Info. Studies: Advocacy and Library Issues (no direct link, at bottom)
This last one is by distance–my first distance class–and I heard is amazing. It is with the ex-President of the Canadian Library Association, who gave a talk last year. I am also very excited by Information Literacy and Collection Development…. and even Readers’ Advisory, even though I am not really interested in public library work.
Next semester:
FIS2131H – The Literature of the Humanities and Social Sciences
FIS2181H – Information Policy
These two I want for sure. Not so sure about:
FIS2137H – International Organizations: Their Documents and Publications
FIS2132H – The Literature of Science and Technology
or
FIS2125H – Information and Culture in a Global Context (links on this page are really broken)
I have signed up for Science and Technology for now, but I don’t know if I am more interested in professional courses or theory courses this time around. And, frankly, the selection this year was not very fruitful.