CAS in Digital Libraries: Curriculum
The Certificate of Advanced Studies in Digital Libraries requires the completion of 18 credits. The curriculum consists of two elements:
- Core Courses: The certificate core courses cover the basics of creating and managing digital libraries.
- Electives: The electives allow students to focus their digital library studies in the area(s) that are best related to their career plans.
All courses are three credits unless specified otherwise.
| I. Core Courses: 9 credits |
Students must complete the following courses:
IST 676: Digital Libraries
Provides a broad overview of digital library projects and issues including representation of information in digital libraries, mechanisms for retrieval, digital intermediation, and the sociopolitical environment for digital libraries. (Prerequisite for IST 759)
IST 677: Creating, Managing, and Preserving Digital Assets
Provides an examination of issues and trends involved in transferring analog and paper-based collections (including manuscripts, photographs, videos, and films) into digital collections. Topics to be covered include project management, digitization, delivery systems, digital assets management, metadata, digital rights, and digital permanence. (Prerequisite for IST 759)
IST 759: Planning and Designing Digital Library Services
Development, design, and planning of digital library services. The course provides intensive hands-on instruction on Internet information services and their development and management for students of all levels of technology skills.
Students may choose from the following recommended online or campus courses, or from approved courses offered during Summer Institute. Other IST courses may also be used as certificate electives with the consent of the Digital Libraries Program Director.
A. Courses offered regularly throughout the year
IST 553 Information Architecture for Internet Services
IST 555 Distributed Computing for Information Professionals
IST 558 Technologies in Web Content Management
IST 565 Data Mining
IST 575 Managing Information Systems Projects
IST 600 Licensing Digital Information: An Introduction
IST 631 Theory of Classification and Subject Representation
IST 637 Digital Information Retrieval Services
IST 638 Indexing and Abstracting Systems and Services
IST 641 Behavior of Information Users
IST 649 Human Interaction with Computers
IST 653 Introduction to Telecommunications and Network Management
IST 657 Basics of Information Retrieval Systems
IST 658 Database Management for Library Systems
IST 659 Database Administration Concepts and Database Management
IST 667 Information Technology for Libraries and Information Centers
IST 681 Metadata
IST 731 Knowledge Organization Structures
IST 758 Designing Web-Based Database Systems
IST 769 Advanced Database Management
Students need to contact the CAS DL advisor in advance if they want to take following courses as electives for the Certificate:
IST 522 Applied Information Security
IST 535 Records Management in the Digital Age
IST 600 Data Warehousing
IST 600 Copyright Law in the Digital Age
IST 600 Information Retrieval and Knowledge Representation in Medicine
IST 604 Cataloging of Information Resources
IST 609 Biomedical Information Services and Sources
IST 619 Applied Economics for Information Managers
IST 634 Security in Networked Environments
IST 636 Planning and Evaluation of Library and Information Services
IST 664 Natural Language Processing
IST 710 E-Government
Please see the Syracuse University graduate catalog for course descriptions.