Description of the bachelor's degree program courses
0206101 Introduction to Library Science and Information
This course aims to provide a general idea about: the concept of the library and information and the relationship between them. It includes a historical overview of libraries, their characteristics, types and sources of information, information services in libraries, information centers and the development of library collections, indexing and catalogs, cards and classification, library management, and cooperation between them. The course also includes an introduction to international organizations related to libraries, libraries and their relationship to information, in addition to the reality of libraries in Jordan.
Society 0206104 Information
This course aims to introduce the concept of library, data, information, knowledge, science and informatics. It includes the characteristics of information, its value and theories, the relationship of information to society, libraries and their role in serving society, information ethics, the role of the library in investing information, and the role of information in decision-making and scientific research work.
0206126 Introduction to libraries organization
This article aims to define the concept of information sources and their development throughout history. It includes the divisions of information sources and their types according to: content, substance, physical form, publication, dissemination, availability, official and unofficial, traditional and unconventional, electronic, and controlling information sources and the criteria for selecting them in various types of libraries, information networks, and databases as sources of information, in addition to controlling information sources and the criteria for selecting them in various types of libraries. These two elements were mentioned previously.
Communication skills in Libraries and Information Centers 0206131
This course aims to define: the concept of human communication in libraries and information centers, and includes the pillars of the human communication process, its components, obstacles, and characteristics of mass communication, types of human communication, its forms, its importance, its objectives, its levels, and its applications in libraries and information centers, and the relationship of mass and human communication theories to the audience of beneficiaries of libraries and information centers, the nature of beneficiaries and their need for information, the communication skills that must be available to workers in libraries and information centers, and the stages of preparing a successful program for communication in libraries and information centers, in addition to modern international communication via satellite.
0206215 Information Services
This article aims to define: the concept of library services, their types, and includes the following services: lending, photocopying, bibliographic services, media services, training of beneficiaries, periodicals, information services, current awareness, selective broadcasting, indexing, abstracting, direct contact search, information retrieval, the Internet, and databases, in addition to the reality of library services in Jordan.
References Resources and its Services 0206201
This course aims to define the concept of references and reference service, and includes their development throughout history, the characteristics of each, their types, objectives, levels, and factors affecting reference service, in addition to the characteristics of the qualifications of the information specialist.
0206222 Descriptive and Subject Cataloging
This course aims to introduce the foundations of bibliographic description and international classification. It includes bibliographic description of books, periodicals, and non-printed materials, according to the Anglo-American cataloging rules and methods of deriving them. It includes practical applications of the Anglo-American cataloging rules, and lists of Arabic and foreign subject headings, in addition to practical applications of descriptive and subject cataloging, using computer binaries, and through direct contact with databases.
Classification (1) 0206223
This course aims to introduce the classification system, the components of the Dewey Decimal Classification System, edition (21), the rules and principles of practical classification and its applications. It includes the concept of the subject, the methods and techniques for determining it, the rules for determining the classification code, its types, and the types of notes in the Dewey Decimal Classification plan. It includes practical applications on the Dewey Decimal Classification plan, 21, general knowledge, philosophy, psychology, religions, social sciences, language, applied sciences, fine arts, literature, geography, and history, in addition to the classification of the American Library of Congress, and practical applications on it.
Development of Library Collections 0206225
This course aims to introduce the concept of library collections development, technical processing, reasons for selection, its responsibility, factors affecting it and auxiliary tools. It includes criteria for evaluating information sources, for the purpose of selecting them, the functions of the supply department, the duties, powers and rights of its head, evaluating information sources using statistical methods, and supply methods: purchasing, donation, exchange, legal deposit, endowment, binding, branching, inventory, preservation and maintenance of information sources, and management of library collections, in addition to procedures for requesting information sources and preparing incoming materials, automatic registration, and cooperative and central acquisition.
Periodicals and its Control 0206224
This course aims to introduce: the concept of periodicals, their development throughout history, and includes the types of periodicals, their advantages, characteristics, importance, disadvantages, and alternatives in libraries and information centers, selection methods and tools, in addition to introducing the most important periodicals available in databases, in addition to indexing electronic and portable periodicals.
libraries and Information Centers Management 0206232
This course aims to introduce: the concept of management, library management, and information centers, and its development over the ages. It includes the relationship of management to other sciences, its importance, functions, levels, the characteristics of the library director, schools of management, and its employment in libraries and information centers, in addition to the functions of management: planning, organizing, directing employment, supervising the preparation of budgets, making decisions, and employing them in libraries and information centers.
Public Libraries 0206136
This article aims to introduce the concept of public libraries, their development throughout history, and includes their characteristics, types, and position among other types of libraries, the current concept of public libraries, and their objectives, according to the UNESCO statement on public libraries, children’s libraries, international standards for public libraries, and the services they provide, in addition to the reality of public libraries in Jordan.
School Libraries 0206134
This course aims to introduce the concept of school libraries, educational resource centers, and their development throughout history. It includes their characteristics, objectives, functions, types, and related international standards, as well as recent developments in school libraries, in addition to the reality of school libraries in Jordan.
Academic Libraries 0206334
This course aims to introduce the concept of academic libraries, their development throughout history, and includes their types, functions, objectives, characteristics, and related international standards, as well as recent developments in them, in addition to the reality of academic libraries in Jordan.
Information Centers and Special Libraries 0206332
This course aims to introduce the concept of specialized libraries and information centers, their development throughout history, and includes their position among other types of libraries, their objectives, their functions, the relationship between libraries and information centers, the international standards associated with them, the services they provide, the duties and powers of the information specialist, and specialized information sources in the social sciences, in addition to the reality of specialized libraries in Jordan.
Information Technology in Libraries 0206144
This course aims to define: the concept of information technology, and the difference between it and technology, computers, and information technology. It includes the concept of microfilms, their types, characteristics, reading equipment and applications, information banks: their concept and types, compact discs, and lasers as sources of information, research in direct communication, satellites, and their role in libraries and information centers, the Internet, databases, systems, artificial intelligence, and the computer: its concept and applications in libraries and information centers, in addition to specialized Arab databases.
English Text in Library Science 0206304
This course aims to introduce important terms in library and information science, their meanings and uses. It includes a selection of texts in library and information science, which are analyzed and translated during the lectures.
Library and information networks 0206244
This article aims to define the concept of networks for libraries and information centers, as well as library consortiums, in terms of the nature of the benefits that libraries gain from entering such networks or consortiums and their impact on the services provided.
Manuscripts 0206316
This course aims to introduce the concept of manuscripts, and includes the importance of books to Arabs and Muslims, and the Muslims’ interest in documentation, interviews, corrections, listening, readings, studies, authorization, text sequence, and numbering, in addition to the problems of documenting Arabic manuscripts.
Classification 0206322
This course aims to introduce computer-based classification, and includes direct communication, comparative classification, its objectives, and its global applications, in addition to conducting an analytical study on the classification systems used in Jordan in particular, and the Arab world in general, in addition to practical applications on classification in the English language.
Statistics in Libraries 0206226
This course aims to introduce the concept of statistics in libraries, its importance, and includes the principles of statistics, its indicators and applications in libraries and information centers, and the practical application of using measures of central tendency and dispersion, in addition to the correlation and regression coefficients, as well as the frequency distribution table and graphs explaining the nature of statistical information.
Bibliography , Indexing and Abstracting 0206314
This course aims to introduce the concept of bibliography, indexing, and abstraction. It includes the importance of bibliography, its types, bibliographic services, the difference between bibliography, indexing, cataloging, and bibliographic control: its tools and theories. The concept of indexing and the features of indexes, the reasons for the emergence of indexes and abstracts, and tools for preparing indexes and abstracts, with a review of some bibliographies and indexes. The student is asked to prepare a bibliography and an index, in addition to computer applications in preparing bibliographies, thesauri, and indexes, which contribute to retrieving information, through direct connection and information networks.
Information Marketing 0206313
This course aims to introduce the concept of marketing, information marketing, and the relationship of marketing to libraries and information centers. It includes the nature of information as a commodity, the importance of marketing information services, the objectives of the library, what information is marketed, and the components of the information marketing process: product and price, promotion and distribution, in addition to information marketing strategies, and the role of information technology in marketing.
Legislation and Libraries 0206234
This course aims to introduce the concept of library legislation, its concept, development, and importance. It includes regulations, laws, and legislation in libraries globally and locally, laws on intellectual library rights in traditional and non-traditional information sources, standards for accreditation of libraries of various types, laws on creativity in libraries, in addition to the reality of library legislation in Jordan.
Information Storage and Retrieving 0206241
This course aims to introduce the concept of storing and retrieving information, and manufacturing data discs. It includes thematic retrieval, automatic and electronic indexing, the effect of language on information retrieval, information selection, searching and retrieving information, information retrieval evaluation criteria, factors affecting data retrieval, automated methods of information retrieval, in addition to practical applications on information retrieval.
Internet and E-Publishing 0206244
This course aims to define the concept of electronic publishing, its objectives and advantages, and compare it to traditional publishing. It includes the impact of electronic publishing on libraries, the software used in electronic publishing, the problems of censorship and distribution and their impact on sources of information published electronically, the security of electronically published information and the disadvantages of electronic publishing, in addition to the concept of the Internet, its use in libraries, information centers and the facilities provided by the Internet, and information services on the network.
Electronic Cataloging 0206344
This course aims to introduce the concept of automated indexing and MARC and its development, and its development over the ages, and the concept of the MARC structure MARC 21 and UniMARC, and includes the reference files for authors and titles, subject headings, components of the MARC structure, its fields, methods of entering information indexed by copies, methods of importing records, in addition to the unified index, using the MARC 21 structure, and automated indexing using direct communication.
Knowledge Economy 0206302
This course aims to introduce the concept of knowledge economy and information industry economics. It includes its concept, history, and the information society: its concept and infrastructure, the role of information in building societies and knowledge economies. It includes the role of libraries in its development and building knowledge capabilities and their development, in addition to the reality of libraries and information centers in Jordan in particular and the Arab world in general, and their role in building information economies and knowledge societies.
Bibliomatrics 0206324
This course aims to introduce how to use quantitative and statistical analysis methods to study the properties of materials in the literature of a specific topic, using bibliometric laws, such as Bradford's dispersion law, Lotka's productivity law, and Zipf's law.
Computerized Systems in Libraries and Information Centers 0206444
This course aims to introduce the concept of the system, the automated system, its applications, integrated library systems, and their benefits in managing libraries, information centers, library unions and blocs, and converting them into library systems, databases, their importance, uses and subscription to them, in addition to the reality of Arab libraries, their systems and blocs.
Virtual Libraries 0206446
This course aims to introduce the concept of the virtual library, its history of development, the stages of transformation into virtual libraries, and its characteristics. The virtual book: its concept, types, and preparation of its readings. Virtual periodicals: its concept, elements, and features. Multimedia, its applications in virtual libraries, databases as virtual libraries, and expectations for the future of libraries.
Scientific Research in Library Science and Information 0206351
This course aims to introduce the concept of scientific research, information, knowledge and science. It includes methods for improving reading, information collection cards, scientific research methods, tools, types, and applications in libraries and information centers, in addition to reviewing and discussing some specialized studies in library science and information.
Internships 0206453
The student is trained through six credit hours to work in one of the libraries, under the supervision of one of the faculty members in the department. Through his practical training, the student learns about the aspects of work in libraries, and employs what he has studied through his internships in traditional and computerized indexing, MARC 21 and classification, and dealing with integrated information systems, in addition to the various library works, from direct and indirect services.
Graduation Project 0206452
This is done under the supervision of the faculty members in the department, whereby the student presents a methodological research that includes a scientific addition to one of the topics of library science, such that the project includes all the sections of scientific research that the student studied in the course of scientific research methods from the theoretical and applied perspective, and then it is discussed by a committee of members of the department council.
New Trends in Library Science 0206352
This course aims to introduce the latest developments in library science and enable the student to keep up with everything new. The department presents one of the modern topics in library and information science that is not covered by other courses.
Retrieval of Digital information in Humanities 0206143
This course aims to introduce students of the Faculty of Arts to the concept of digital information retrieval systems and their development, methods of retrieving digital information from the system, digital information systems in the humanities available on the Internet, the most famous databases for processing the humanities, and evaluating and analyzing digital information retrieval systems in the humanities, in addition to recalling models of digital information retrieval systems provided by Arab databases.
Reference services in Humanities 0206114
This course aims to introduce students of the Faculty of Arts to the concept of reference services, their types, features, objectives, levels, and the factors affecting them, in addition to the role of the information specialist, his characteristics, and qualifications. This course includes reference information sources in the humanities, their traditional and electronic types, as well as the advantages and characteristics of each, and methods of extracting information from them in the least amount of time and effort.