LIS 753

LIS 753 is an introduction to the fundamentals of the Internet, including its origins, evolution, current state, and future. Critical Internet issues such as privacy, copyright, and other related topics will be examined. Students will have a basic understanding of Web content languages and the Internet as a result of this course. Pre-requisites are 701 and 703.

Topics will include networking, Internet protocols and architecture, the World Wide Web, Web site design and evaluation, HTML coding, search engines, blogs, wikis, RSS and social software/web sites.

Course Goals

To gain a basic understanding of networking principles and techniques, Internet protocols and architecture, and major telecommunication issues.

To gain a basic understanding of the World Wide Web, coding standards, Web site design and page layout, and current issues.

To develop the understanding and skills to produce a group of linked HTML documents that can be published on the Internet.

To understand the use and benefits of the World Wide Web in libraries today, and to gain an appreciation for the Web’s many complex social and legal issues.

To gain an understanding of the complexities that are involved when libraries today mount digital resources on the Web, and how this fits into a national and international information infrastructure.