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WXGB 6311 DIGITAL LIBRARIES 3 CREDITS

Synopsis

Topics included are: Digital library concepts, digital libraries and the global information society,
development of digital collections and digital libraries, digital library initiatives and research projects, technical
infrastructure of the digital library, knowledge organization in digital libraries, document formats and collection
development, information access and users of digital libraries, social, economic and policy issues in developing
digital libraries, professional issues in managing digital libraries.

Assesment Method : Continuous Assessment: 70% (assignment, test,project report and presentation)
and Final examination: 30%

Medium of Instruction : Malay and English Language

Main References
Witten, Ian; Bainbridge, David and Nichols, David. 2009. How to Build a Digital Library, Second Edition
(The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Multimedia Information and Systems). Morgan Kaufmann.
Willinsky, John. 2009. The Access Principle: The Case for Open Access to Research and Scholarship
(Digital Libraries and Electronic Publishing). MIT Press.
Reese, Terry and Banerjee, Kyle. 2007. Building Digital Libraries: A How-to-do-it Manual (A How-to-Do-It
Manual). Neal Schuman Publishers.
Chowdury, G.G and Chowdury, S. 2001. Introduction to Digital Libraries. Facet Publishing.
Lesk, Michael. 2004. Understanding digital libraries. Morgan Kaufmann.

WXGB 6321 WEB PUBLISHING 3 CREDITS

Synopsis

Topics included are: Big picture of web publishing, web publishing in libraries, planning of a web
publishing project, web development tools (open source and commercial), architecture of the web publishing,
web clients and client-side technologies: e.g. HTML, XHTML, CSS, Javascript, web servers and server-side
technologies: e.g. Apache, PHP, database driven systems, recent web publishing systems and software, web
publishing issues: e.g. privacy, usability, accessibility, standards.

Assesment Method : Continuous Assessment: 70%, Final examination: 30%

Medium of Instruction : English Language

Main References
Colburn, Rafe. 2006. Sams Teach Yourself Web Publishing with HTML and CSS in One Hour a Day. 5 Edition.
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Sams Publishing.
Moncur, Michael. 2006. Sams Teach Yourself JavaScript in 24 Hours. 4 Edition. Sams Publishing.
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Meloni, Julie. 2006. Sams Teach Yourself PHP, MySQL and Apache: All in One. 3 Edition. Sams Publishing

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