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MLIS Coursework

Listed below are the classes I took while enrolled in the MLIS program at the UW Information School (2003-2005) and examples of projects, papers, or assignments that I completed in these classes. View a chronological list of classes without the projects.

LIS 500: The Life Cycle of Information

  • Reflection on the information life cycle

LIS 510: Information Behavior

  • "Information Behavior of PhD Students" (group project)
  • "Exploring the Potential of Belkin's and Bates's Models of Information Behavior for Application to the Design of a Health Information Website"

LIS 520: Information Resources, Services, and Collections

  • Research consultation on community-supported agriculture on Vashon Island for a UW faculty member
  • "The Top 10 Information Resources for the Rick Steves Travel Company" (group project)

LIS 521: Principles of Information Services

  • Digital reference experience: answered nine questions for the Internet Public Library
  • Analysis of an information service: UW Libraries Map Collection (Group project)

LIS 522: Collection Development

  • Paper about collection development policies from three academic libraries
  • Selection exercise for the Hutch School Library, including a report on evaluating selection tools and a list of materials selected

LIS 523: Advanced Information Services

  • "Clark College Library Reference Services" (Group project)

LIS 526: Government Publications

  • Analytical Overview of a Government Documents Story: The Women Air Force Service Pilots (Pair project)

LIS 529: Special Topics in Information Resources, Services and Collections: Information Access in the Social Sciences

  • Pathfinder for faculty preparing distance MLIS courses
  • Reference question practice in psychology, economics, sociology, statistics, education, anthropology, history, and political science

LIS 530: Organization of Information and Resources

  • Papers about controlled vocabulary, metadata, and derived & assigned indexing

LIS 531: Catalogs, Cataloging, and Classification

  • Papers about catalog evaluation, issues in description and access, and Library of Congress Subject Headings

LIS 537: Construction of Indexing Languages

  • "The Chic Student's Fashion Design Thesaurus" (Group project)

LIS 540: Information Systems, Architectures and Retrieval

  • "iTrivia: iTunes Music Trivia Database" (Group project)

LIS 550: Information in Social Context

  • "The Effects of Computer Use on Children's Development" (Group research paper)

LIS 554: Information Policy: Domestic and Global

  • "Should the U.S. Constitution be amended to increase information flow?" (solo term paper)

LIS 560: Instructional and Training Strategies for Information Professionals

  • User group analysis of new MLIS students
  • Instructional Program Plan for Course Communication Tools Workshop

LIS 580: Management for Information Professionals

  • "Redefining Podunk: A new branch library and community center for West Podunk, Washington" (Group paper on management of fictional library)

LIS 598: Special Topics: Google

  • "Is Google Good?" (Reflection paper)

LIS 600: Independent study

  • Assisted with literature review for "Library as Place" research project (Principal investigators: Karen Fisher, Jens-Erik Mai, and Matthew Saxton)