Library & Information Science Program
School of Information Sciences, University of Pittsburgh

Course Title & Textbooks

LIS 2000:  Understanding Information
Books: Matthew Battles; Library: An Unquiet History; W. W. Norton & Company (June 2004): ISBN-10: 0393325644; ISBN-13: 978-0393325645

 
LIS 2001:  Organizing Information
Books: Taylor, Arlene G. (2004) The Organization of Information. 2nd edition. Westport, CT: Libraries Unlimited. ISBN: 1-56308-969-6 (pbk). (Required).
Weinberger, David.  (2007).  Everything Is Miscellaneous: The Power of the New Digital Disorder .   New York:  Henry  Holt and Co.  ISBN-13: 978-0-8050-8043-8  ISBN-10:  0-8050-8043-0 (Required)  
Note:   Copies are available via Amazon for $16.50.
 
LIS 2001:  Organizing Information
Books: Organizing Information, 2nd edition.  Arlene G. Taylor.  Libraries Unlimited.  Copyright 2004.  ISBN:  1563089696 (Required)
 
LIS 2002: Retrieving Information
Books: Suzanne S. Bell, Librarian’s Guide to online searching, Libraries Unlimited. 2006. ISBN: 1-59158-3268
Walker, Geraldene and Joseph Janes. Online Retrieval: A Dialogue of Theory and Practice. 2nd ed. Libraries Unlimited, 1999 ISBN: 1-56308-657-3.
 

LIS 2194: Information Ethics
Books: Stephen L. Carter, Integrity, Harper Perennial, 1996, paperback edition, ISBN: 0-06-092807-7, Required. (text is listed under INFSCI 2210 at the Book Center)
Dalai Lama. Ethics for the New Millennium. Penguin Group, New York, 1999. ISBN: 1573228834, Required
 
LIS 2222: Archival Appraisal
Books: Helen W. Samuels, Varsity Letters: Documenting Modern Colleges and Universities (Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow Press, 1992; Required.
Sam Kula, Appraising Moving Images: Assessing the Archival and Monetary Value of Film and Video Records (Lanham, Maryland and Oxford: Scarecrow Press, 2003); Required.
Terry Cook and Gordon Dodds, eds., Imagining Archives: Essays and Reflections by Hugh Taylor (Lanham, Md: Scarecrow Press, Association of Canadian Archivists, and Society of American Archivists, 2003); Required.
Barbara Craig, Archival Appraisal: Theory and Practice (München: K. G. Saur, 2004); Required.
Richard J. Cox, Documenting Localities: A Practical Model for American Archivists and Manuscripts Curators (Metuchen: Scarecrow Press, 1996); Required.
Richard J. Cox, No Innocent Deposits: Forming Archives by Rethinking Appraisal (Lanham, Md.: Scarecrow Press, 2004); Required.
 

LIS 2223: Archival Access and Advocacy
Books: Elsie Freeman Finch, ed., Advocating Archives: An Introduction to Public Relations for Archivists (Metuchen, New Jersey: Society of American Archivists and the Scarecrow Press, Inc., 1994).  ISBN: 0810847736
Miles Harvey, The Island of Lost Maps: A True Story of Cartographic Crime (New York: Random House, 2000). ISBN: 0767908260
Richard J. Cox,  Flowers After the Funeral: Reflections on the Post-9/11 Digital Age (Metuchen, New Jersey: Scarecrow Press, 2003).  ISBN: 081084835X
Deborah Lipstadt, History on Trial: My Day in Court with David Irving (New York: ECC, 2005).  ISBN: 0060593768
Alasdair Roberts, Blacked Out: Government Secrecy in the Information Age (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006).  ISBN: 0521858704
H. Shanks, ed. Understanding the Dead Sea Scrolls. (New York: Random House, 1992).  ISBN-10: 0679744452
Richard J. Cox, Ethics, Accountability, and Recordkeeping in a Dangerous World (London: Facet Publishing, 2006).  ISBN: 185604596X
Susan Tucker, Katherine Ott, and Patricia P. Buckler, eds., The Scrapbook in American Life (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2006).  ISBN-10: 1592134785
 

LIS 2224: Archival Representation
Books: Organizing Information, 2nd edition.  Arlene G. Taylor.  Libraries Unlimited.  Copyright 2004.  ISBN:  1563089696 (Required)
 

LIS 2280: History of Books, Printing, Publishing
Books: Bridson, Gavin D.R. and D.E. Wendel.  Printmaking in the service of botany.  Pittsburgh, Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation, 1986.  ISBN: 0-913196-49-5
Carter, John and Nicolas Barker.  ABC for book collectors, 8th ed.New Castle, Oak Knoll Press, 2004.  ISBN: 1-58456-112-2
Chappel, Warren and Robert Bringhurst.   A short history of the printed word.  2nd ed.  Point Roberts, WA, Hartley & Marks, 2000.  ISBN: 0-88179-154-7
Eisenstein, E.  The printing revolution in early modern Europe.  Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2005. PB 0521607744
Epstein, Jason.  Book business: Publishing past present and future.  W. W.Norton, 2002. PB edition – ISBN 0-393-32234-3
Garrison, Dee.  Apostles of Culture: the Public librarian and American society, 1876-1920. 2003  PB edition – ISBN: 0-299-18114-6
Gaskell, Philip.  A new introduction to bibliography.  New Castle, Oak Knoll Press, 2000.  PB edition - 1-884718-13-2
Herring, Mark.  Fool’s Gold: Why the Internet is no substitute for a library.  Jefferson, NC, McFarland & Co., 2007.  PB edition – 0-7864-3082-6
Jackson, H.J.  Marginalia: readers writing in books.  Yale University Press, 2002.  PB edition - 0-300-09720-4
Kilgour, Frederick G.  The evolution of the book.  New York, Oxford University Press, 1998.  ISBN0-19-511859-6
Manguel, Alberto.  A history of reading.  New York, Penguin, 1996.  ISBN: 0-1401-6654-8
Petroski, Henry.  The book on the bookshelf.  (Either PB edition is OK).  2000 PB edition available from Knopf Publishing Co, ISBN : 0-375-70639-9 or .  2002 PB edition available from  Diane Publishing Co.: 0-7567-5344-9;
Van Slyck, Abigail A.  Free to all, Carnegie libraries and American culture, 1890-1920.  Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1998  PB edition-.  ISBN: 0-226-85032-3
Winchester, Simon.  The meaning of everything: the story of the Oxford English dictionary.  2006.  (Paper back edition.  Diane Publishing Co.  ISBN: 1-4223-5390-7
 
LIS 2322: Resources for Children
Books: Babbitt, Nathalie. Tuck Everlasting. (paperback) Square Fish; Reissue edition ISBN-10: 0312369816;
Lowry, Lois. The Giver, Laurel Leaf (September 10, 2002), ISBN: 978-0440237686
Lobel, Arnold. Frog and Toad are Friends. HarperTrophy (February 18, 2003).  ISBN: 978-0064440202
Scieszka, Jon. The Stinky Cheese Man and other fairly Stupid Tales. Viking Juvenile (September 6, 2007).  ISBN: 978-0670063000
Hesse, Karen.Witness. Scholastic Paperbacks. ISBN-10: 0439272009. ISBN: 978-0439272001
Ellis,  Deborah. Three Wishes. Groundwood Books; ISBN: 978-0888996459
 
LIS 2329: Special Education Resources & Service in School Library Media Centers
Books: Special Education in Today's Schools;Ann Turnbull, H. Rutherford Turnbull, Michael L. Wehmeyer, Sean Smith, Marilyn Shank; Paperback – REV; ISBN 10: 0131708694: Prentice Hall Publishers,  March 2006, 5th Edition;ISBN13: 9780131708693;
Special Education in Today's Schools;Ann Turnbull, H. Rutherford Turnbull, Michael L. Wehmeyer, Sean Smith, Marilyn Shank; Paperback – REV; ISBN 10: 0131708694: Published March 2006, 5th Edition;ISBN13: 9780131708693
 
LIS 2537: Government Information Resources & Services
Books: Suhasini, K. (2007). The changing face of government information: Providing access in the twenty-first century. Binghamton, NY: Haworth Information Press. ISBN-13: 978-0-7890-3156-3 (required)
Ennis, L. (2007). Government documents librarianship: A guide for the neo-depository era. Medford, NJ: Information Today, Inc. ISBN-13: 978-1-57387-270-6 (recommended)
Hernon, P., Dugan, R, & Shuler, J. (2003). U.S. government on the web: Getting the information you need. Westport, CT: Libraries Unlimited. ISBN 1-59158-086-2 (recommended)
 
LIS 2405: Introduction to Cataloging and Classification
Books: Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules. Chicago: American Library Association. 1998 ed. OR the 2002 ed. (Required)
Note: You can use it for free online via Cataloger's Desktop, however, we will be using it extensively for our work and many find the print easier to work with.

Bowman, J.H. (2003) Essential Cataloguing. London: Facet Publishing. ISBN 1-85604-456-4 (Required)
Chan, Lois Mai.  2007.  Cataloging and Classification:  An Introduction.  Third Edition. Lanham, MD:  Scarecrow Press.  ISBN-10: 0-8108-6000-7  ISBN-13: 978-0-8108-6000-1 (Required)
Note: Copies are available from the publisher.
 

LIS 2600:  Introduction to Information Technologies
Books: Gary B. Shelly, Thomas J. Cashman, Misty E. Vermaat, Discovering Computers 2008: A Gateway to Information, Complete; 2008. ISBN13: 978-1-4239-1205-7 © 2008, ISBN10: 1-4239-1205-5 Thompson Course Technology; Required
 

LIS 2674: Digital Preservation  Required texts.
Books: Martha Baca, ed.  Introduction to art image access: issues, tools, standards, strategies.  Los Angeles, Getty Research Institute, 2002.  ISBN: 0-89236-666-4
Howard Besser, Introduction to Imaging, revised edition, edited by Sally Hubbard with Deborah Lewis, Los Angeles, Getty Research Institute, 2003.  ISBN:  0-89236-733-4
Ross Harvey, Preserving Digital Materials. Munich,  K.G. Saur, 2005.  ISBN:  3-598-11686-1

 
LIS 2970: Special Topics: Information Visualization
Books: Spence, Robert. (2007). Information Visualization: Design for Interaction, 2^nd Ed. Harlow: Pearson Education Limited. ISBN-13: 978-0-132-0655-04. ISBN-10: 0-132-0655-09.