This course provides an overview to archival theory and philosophy, archives principles and practices, and records management framework and approaches. The course aims to expand one’s general perspective on information science while also providing a holistic foundation, both in principles and praxis, to those individuals aspiring to pursue further studies and training in archiving and records management. At the end of course, the students will archive the collected documents with respect to their provenance and original order, to protect their context and to achieve physical or intellectual control over the materials.

The main goal of the course is to expose students on physical database designs particularly in parallel to library information systems that shall provide accurate and timely information.  Topics shall Storage and file structure, indexed files, hashed files, signature files, database efficiency and tuning.  The students shall also learn how to design SQL Queries for a relational database to satisfy the end-users’ information / data needs.

This course provides a broad introduction to the museum world, and is an overview of basic elements of museums, their missions, and their characteristics. It is organized around the key professional activities of museums – Leadership and Management, Collections, Interpretation, and Community Connections. It concentrates on the multi-disciplinarily inherent in museum work, as students gain appreciation of the range of skills and knowledge required for succeeding in the museum profession. Museums of art, history, natural history, are included, as well as museums large and small.    

This course aims to cover objectives, organization, management and services of special and public libraries.

The course covers the design, development, implementation, testing and evaluation of web-based applications with the integration of digital media. Students shall be exposed to different web technologies particularly those which are applicable to libraries and information centers.

This is an introductory course, which covers information management, basic foundation on database design, data modeling, SQL and implementation using database relational system in line with library information systems.

The course is designed to give an introductory knowledge in formulating research proposals from conceptualization to methodologies and techniques in conducting scholarly investigation with useful application particularly to library science and librarianship.

This course introduces reference methods, literature searching, and bibliographic techniques; evaluation and use of principal types of information, and use of computerized databases for information searching. It covers the basic reference sources and materials for different library users.

Provides the theoretical and philosophical underpinnings of the profession, with emphasis on its practice in the Philippines. Overview of libraries and librarianship; historical development of libraries; types of libraries; library profession including Code of Ethics for Filipino Librarians; as well as laws and issuances related to Philippine Librarianship.

This course is an introduction to basic concepts, theories, principles and standards of resource description in descriptive cataloging. Provides in organizing print and non-print resources using the Resource Description and Access (including recording attributes of manifestation and item, identifying persons, families and corporate bodies and identifying works and expressions, construction of access points and authority data). Studies ways of cataloging various types of information resources (i.e., printed, continuing resources, non-print, electronic and digital) as well as other cataloging systems using new technologies (e.g., MARC 21, Dublin Core metadata, etc.). Moreover, application of the revised International Principles of Cataloging, Functional Requirements of Bibliographic Records (FRBR), and Resource Description and Access (RDA) will also be tackled.

The course deals with the nature of identity, as well as the factors and forces that effect the development and maintenance of personal identity. The Directive to Know Oneself has inspired countless and varied ways to comply. Among the questions that everyone has had to grapple with at one time or other is “Who am I?” At no other period is this question asked more urgently than in adolescence – traditionally believed to be a time of vulnerability and great possibilities. Issues of self and identity are among the most critical for the young. This course is intended to facilitate the exploration of the issues and concerns regarding self and identity to arrive at a better understanding of one’s self. It strives to meet this goal by stressing the integration of the personal with the academic contextualizing matters discussed in the classroom and in the everyday experiences of students- making for better learning, generating a new appreciation for the learning process, and developing a more critical and reflective attitude while enabling them to manage and improve their selves to attain a better quality of life. The course is divided into three major parts: The first part seeks to understand the construct of the self from various disciplinal perspectives: philosophy, sociology, anthropology, and psychology-  as well as the more traditional division between the East and West – each seeking to provide answers to the difficult but essential question of “What is the self?” And raising, among others, the question: “Is there even such a construct as the self?”

The second part explores some of the various aspects that make up the self, such as the biological and material up to and including the more recent Digital Self. The third and final part identifies three areas of concern for young students: learning, goal setting, and managing stress.  It also provides for the more practical application of the concepts discussed in this course and enables them the hands-on experience of developing self-help plans for self-regulated learning, goal setting, and self-care.

This course includes the mandatory topics on Family Planning and Population Education

The course deals with the nature of identity, as well as the factors and forces that effect the development and maintenance of personal identity. The Directive to Know Oneself has inspired countless and varied ways to comply. Among the questions that everyone has had to grapple with at one time or other is “Who am I?” At no other period is this question asked more urgently than in adolescence – traditionally believed to be a time of vulnerability and great possibilities. Issues of self and identity are among the most critical for the young. This course is intended to facilitate the exploration of the issues and concerns regarding self and identity to arrive at a better understanding of one’s self. It strives to meet this goal by stressing the integration of the personal with the academic contextualizing matters discussed in the classroom and in the everyday experiences of students- making for better learning, generating a new appreciation for the learning process, and developing a more critical and reflective attitude while enabling them to manage and improve their selves to attain a better quality of life. The course is divided into three major parts: The first part seeks to understand the construct of the self from various disciplinal perspectives: philosophy, sociology, anthropology, and psychology-  as well as the more traditional division between the East and West – each seeking to provide answers to the difficult but essential question of “What is the self?” And raising, among others, the question: “Is there even such a construct as the self?”

The second part explores some of the various aspects that make up the self, such as the biological and material up to and including the more recent Digital Self. The third and final part identifies three areas of concern for young students: learning, goal setting, and managing stress.  It also provides for the more practical application of the concepts discussed in this course and enables them the hands-on experience of developing self-help plans for self-regulated learning, goal setting, and self-care.

This course includes the mandatory topics on Family Planning and Population Education

An introduction to the theories, practices, and issues in preservation of information resources to include but not limited to paper and AV materials.

This three unit course focuses on the elements of management and how these are applied to the effective administration of different types of libraries.  Focus will be placed on two major roles in the system, the person who is supervised as well as the manager or supervisor.  Examination of the functions of planning, organization, staffing, directing, controlling, and reporting, as well as the theories of management and the effective use of these in the academic library system.

This course provides an overview to archival theory and philosophy, archives principles and practices, and records management framework and approaches. The course aims to expand one’s general perspective on information science while also providing a holistic foundation, both in principles and praxis, to those individuals aspiring to pursue further studies and training in archiving and records management

The course introduces students to the structured and object oriented - analysis and design, use of modeling tools, adherence to methodological life cycle and project management standards. Course includes analysis of current systems, logical and physical systems design, program development plans, testing implementation, maintenance and documentation plans. This course strikes a balance between the theoretical and applied aspects of system analysis, presenting state-of-the-art systems, procedures, methodology and software. These skills are applied by allowing students to experience analyzing and designing a “live” system for an outside client.

This course explores school and academic libraries, examining their missions and purposes, their educational cultures, their principal constituents, their structural partnerships, their main functions, the ways they are organized, and variations among types of libraries. The course considers political, financial, intellectual, and human resources needed for effective operation.