Information management and information structures, taught week 35-39, autumn 2022
What is this course about?
The course Information management and information structures introduces multiple theoretical and practical perspectives on knowledge/information/data management. Specifically, it covers data, information, and knowledge management from information studies’ and digital humanities’ perspectives and explores practical implementations at organizational, cultural, and individual levels. It is offered at the Master’s Programmes in Digital Humanities and Library and Information Science simultaneously and therefore has an intrinsically collaborative nature.
What are two good examples of tasks/assignments/workshops that the students will engage in during the course?
Final group project assignment invites students to practice methods for analyzing and developing knowledge/information/data management – crucial skills for library, information and digital humanities professionals working for example with resource or content management or data curation. The assignment is to analyze a knowledge/information/data management case, paying particular attention to how knowledge/information/data for organizational or scholarly purposes can be managed both by technology and systems and by cultures and behaviors.
What relevance(s) does the course have for a DH student?
As it was mentioned by one of the students in the course’s evaluation survey “Management in organizations was especially helpful [takeaway] and would be a great asset when you start working”.
Digital Libraries, taught week 40-44, autumn 2022
What is the course about?
In the course Digital Libraries, the students acquire relevant knowledge about methods and theories for approaching issues of information access, digitization, metadata, organization, and user behaviour. The students will also learn to critically examine issues relating libraries and knowledge organizations.
What are two good examples of tasks/assignments/workshops that the students will engage in during the course?
The students are asked to 1) examine and discuss texts relating to important and current research problems within a library information context, e.g., gender and sustainability issues. They are also asked to 2) prepare a presentation on the topic of digitization and approach this topic from a critical perspective.
What relevance(s) does the course have for a DH student?
The course prepares the students for further studies of information related topics on a PhD level. By providing them with knowledge about the library as a social institution, it also gives the student insight into a job context in which DH skills are very much sought-after.
Foundations of Library and Information Studies, taught week 50-02, autumn 2022
What is the course about?
The course Foundations of Library and Information Studies introduces library and information studies as a research field situated between humanities and social sciences. The course also provides insight into tone-setting research of library and information studies, and into theoretical and empirical approaches common to the field.
What are two good examples of tasks/assignments/workshops that the students will engage in during the course?
The students are asked to 1) compose a research proposal and 2) to prepare an oral presentation. Both assignments constitute valuable skills that are necessary within the academia.
What relevance(s) does the course have for a DH student?
The students acquire understanding of important information perspectives and research approaches within both information studies and digital humanities.