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Course Description
This course introduces students to fundamental facts and concepts of information technology. The course cover basics of computer hardware, operating systems, client/server software and computer networking. As an application, students will be installing a set of Linux machines, one machine per student. The capstone experience of this edition of LIS508 is to set up an integrated library system, on each of the machines. In addition, students will use MS Windows and Mac machines as clients to the
After taking this course all students
Prerequisites
There are no formal prerequisites for this course. People should be curious about the potential of information technology, and be ready to be surprised how easy it is to run technology without professional support.
What to bring
If you have a machine that you want to install koha on, please bring it with you. If this is an old Microsoft machine you will be fine. It's not clear that you can use old Apple computers. If you don't have a machine, the IT department can furnish you with an old machine. The machine will be yours to keep when the course is finished. But you should write to the instructor to make sure we have a machine for you.
If you have a laptop, please bring it. You will need your myLIU id to connect to the network.
Instructor
Thomas Krichel
Palmer School of Library
and Information Science
C.W.
Post Campus of
Long Island University
720 Northern Boulevard
Brookville, NY 11548–1300
krichel@openlib.org
work phone: +1–(516)299–2843
Private contact details may be obtained from the online CV.
Class structure
Classes will be held in the doctoral lab in the Palmer School between 9:30 and 16:00.
Class details:
| 2010–01–11 | 9:30 to 16:00 | introduction to open source software, basic concepts of hardware, inspection and installation of hardware, installation of basic Debian system, until first reboot |
| 2010–01–12 | 9:30 to 16:00 | introduction to computer networks, introduction to command line computing, introduction to Debian packaging system, setup of basic Debian system with koha required package |
| 2010–01–13 | 9:30 to 16:00 | introduction to client/server technology, including email, web, and database technologies, finish koha installation. |
| 2010–01–14 | 9:30 to 16:00 | setup of koha, working on koha for presentation |
| 2010–01–15 | 9:30 to 16:00 | presentation of features of koha |
Mailing list
There is a mailing list for the course at https://lists-1.liu.edu/mailman/listinfo/cwp-lis508-krichel. All students are encouraged to subscribe. As a rule, answers to email sent to the instructor is copied to the list. There are exceptions to this rule
Readings
There is no textbook. Thomas Krichel makes slides and instructions available. The slides will be on this site, the instructions will be on the course resource page. All other resources are available on the web.
Assessment
There are two components to the assessment. 50% will be for the presentation at the end, and 50% will be given for the state of the installation at the end of the course. The presentations will be based on a section of the manual. Each student will present a different section and demonstrate how the software works.