Unit LIBRARIES AND INFORMATION IN THE DIGITAL AGE
- Course
- Cultural heritage
- Study-unit Code
- A000513
- Curriculum
- In all curricula
- Teacher
- Andrea Capaccioni
- Teachers
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- Andrea Capaccioni
- Hours
- 42 ore - Andrea Capaccioni
- CFU
- 6
- Course Regulation
- Coorte 2022
- Offered
- 2022/23
- Learning activities
- Caratterizzante
- Area
- Discipline relative ai beni storico-archeologici e artistici, archivistici e librari, demoetnoantropologici e ambientali
- Academic discipline
- M-STO/08
- Type of study-unit
- Opzionale (Optional)
- Type of learning activities
- Attività formativa monodisciplinare
- Language of instruction
- italian
- Contents
- Library in contemporary age. Definitions and more information about Information and Knowledge Society; Digital era. Public libraries: functions and organization. Laboratory/Workshop: library catalog and bibliographic databases.
- Reference texts
- Mauro Guerrini, Carlo Bianchini, Guida alla biblioteca per studenti universitari, Milano, Editrice Bibliografica, 2012 (anche ebook); other bibliographical indications will be provided during the lessons. For updates see www.unistudium.unipg.it/unistudium/. Students with disabilities and / or with SLD, info: https://lettere.unipg.it/home/disabilita-e-dsa
- Educational objectives
- The course aims as main objective to know purposes and functions of the library. The main skills that students will acquire: outlines of library history, knowledge of the basic elements of Library science. The present and the future of the Bibliography. The main skills that allow you to apply the knowledge gained will be: know how to use the tools (catalogs, bibliographic databases, etc.) and library services.
- Prerequisites
- In order to be able to understand how to tackle the course, students must have cultural and historical basic notions; these are notions that the student should have already aquired in his/her school curriculum.
- Teaching methods
- The course is organized as follows: lectures on all course's topics; workshop. If necessary, blended teaching will be used, in synchronous and/or asynchronous mode.
- Other information
- Please see . For further information contact your professor. Students with disabilities and / or with SLD, info: https://lettere.unipg.it/home/disabilita-e-dsa
- Learning verification modality
- The exam includes the final oral test consisting of a discussion-interview on the topics discussed during the course and examined in depth through recommended texts. The test aims at assuring the level of knowledge and understanding, as well as synthesis, achieved by the student. Moreover, this interview will verify that the student is able to communicate, with method, propriety of language on the performance of the test itself and begins, as a rule, with a subject of the student's choice in order to put him at ease. Students with disabilities and / or with SLD, info: https://lettere.unipg.it/home/disabilita-e-dsa
- Extended program
- The course examines the present and the future of the bibliography and the functions and organization of the public library in the digital age. Introduces definitions and more information about the Digital era and the Information and Knowledge Society. Emphasis will be placed on public libraries' functions and organization. Workshop: activities were designed to provide students with the opportunity to gain experience using the library catalog and bibliographic databases.