ISKB31 Library Processes and Services

Faculty of Arts
Spring 2025

The course is not taught in Spring 2025

Extent and Intensity
1/1/0. 4 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
Teacher(s)
PhDr. Martin Krčál, DiS., Ph.D. (lecturer)
PhDr. Jiří Stodola, PhD. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
PhDr. Jiří Stodola, PhD.
Department of Information and Library Studies – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Mgr. Alice Lukavská
Supplier department: Department of Information and Library Studies – Faculty of Arts
Prerequisites (in Czech)
ISKB02 Indroduction to Librarianship
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is only offered to the students of the study fields the course is directly associated with.

The capacity limit for the course is 20 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/20, only registered: 0/20
Course objectives
The course follows the course Introduction to librarianship. It aims to explain in detail the functioning of key processes and services in libraries. The course focuses on applying theoretical knowledge to practice and therefore it is being done in our experimental library (Brno, Křížová 88). Several excursions to the various libraries in Brno will take place in the course. It is important for students to better understand their functioning. Due to the practical orientation, the course is suitable especially for students of the daily form of study who lack practical experience in libraries.
Learning outcomes
After the course, the student will:
- understand the specifics of various types of libraries
- be able to think about services and processes in libraries
- be able to use statistics to make libraries more efficient
- be able to design and implement a simple project in the library
Syllabus
  • Content:
  • 1) basic libraries and their function
  • 2) specialized libraries and their function
  • 3) acquisition (acquisition options, approaches, book market)
  • 4) cataloging (cataloging standards, approaches, shared cataloging
  • 5) library system management (functions of the library system, commercial library systems, and opensource library systems)
  • 6) digitization of library collections (scanning, OCR, postprocessing, the organization of digital collections, access to digital documents, legislation)
  • 7) loan services (organization of loan services, legislation) 8) information and retrieval services (searching, retrieval, text reduction, citations, document retrieval from external resources, reprographic services)
  • 9) cultural and educational events in libraries (the educational function of libraries, readership and information literacy, publishing in libraries)
  • 10) library marketing (basic principles of library marketing, target groups, content marketing, social networks, library advocacy, evidence-based librarianship)
Literature
    recommended literature
  • Služby veřejných knihoven : směrnice IFLA. Edited by Christie Koontz - Barbara Gubbin. 2., zcela přeprac. vyd. Praha: Národní knihovna České republiky - Knihovnický institut, 2012, 203 s. ISBN 9788070506127. info
  • BROPHY, Peter. The academic library. 2nd ed. London: Facet Publishing, 2005, xii, 233. ISBN 1856045277. info
  • Library analytics and metrics : using data to drive decisions and services. Edited by Ben Showers. First published. London: Facet Publishing, 2015, xxxi, 176. ISBN 9781856049658. info
  • ZBIEJCZUK SUCHÁ, Ladislava, Pavla MINAŘÍKOVÁ, Roman NOVOTNÝ, Jan DELONG, Alma Leora CULÉN and Andrea GASPARINI. Knihovníci jako designéři. Případové studie o zlepšování služeb v knihovnách (Librarians as Designers: Case Studies on Improvement of Library Services). 1. vyd. Brno: Masarykova univerzita, 2016, 83 pp. 1. ISBN 978-80-210-8358-5. info
  • STACHOKAS, George. After the book : information services for the twenty-first century. First published. Amsterdam: Chandos Publishing is an imprint of Elsevier, 2014, xi, 210. ISBN 9781843347392. info
  • The personal librarian : enhancing the student experience. Edited by Joe Eshleman - Valerie Freeman - Jo Henry - David Jewell - Richard J. Chicago: Ala editions, an imprint of the American Library Association, 2014, viii, 143. ISBN 9780838912393. info
  • VANDUINKERKEN, Wyoma and Wendi Arant KASPAR. Leading libraries : how to create a service culture. UK edition. London: Facet Publishing, 2015, xvii, 167. ISBN 9781783300655. info
Teaching methods
lectures, discussion, excursion, group projekt
Assessment methods
group project
Language of instruction
Czech
Further Comments
The course is taught annually.
The course is taught: every week.
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