ILS 101 - Information Science and Libraries

3 CR

We encounter various forms of information each moment of every day. Information science brings together various disciplines to consider the creation, collection, storage, communication, and use of information in personal, social, and organizational contexts. Topics include understanding different forms of information, confirmation bias and frameworks of critical thinking, information needs and seeking behaviors, local and global information policy, technology, information overload, taxonomies, the ethical use of information, disinformation, misinformation, and the impact of information on cultures and societies and libraries and information organizations.

Prerequisite(s): ILS 100