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Information and Library Science

INLS 461: Information Tools

This course covers tools and concepts for information use, including information literacy, microcomputer software use and maintenance, microcomputer applications, and networked information systems. Specific topics to be covered during the semester include:

  • operating systems
  • Linux and UNIX
  • networking basics
  • HTML and CSS
  • spreadsheets using Microsoft Excel
  • database concepts and creation using Microsoft Access.

Required Textbook

  • Snyder, Fluency with Information Technology: Skills, Concepts, and Capabilities, 3rd edition (2007), ISBN 978-0321512390

Supplemental texts may be accessed online through UNC Libraries' online resources.

You may purchase the textbooks at Friday Center Books & Gifts in person, online, or by mailing or faxing in the book order form. Refer to the online ordering site for current book prices. Please see Textbooks for textbook purchase dates.

Required Software

  • Microsoft Office 2007. We will be using the Excel and Access programs in the Office set. You can download a trial version of Access at the Microsoft site.
  • Adobe Dreamweaver (Students can download and install a free trial version of Dreamweaver to use for the assignment.)

During the course, students will be given instructions for downloading and installing several other types of software at no cost.

Microsoft Windows is the operating system used for all course instruction. It is possible to complete the coursework using a Mac, but the instructor is not able to offer support for operating systems other than Windows.

Course Details

  • Instructor: Serena Fenton, MSIS, MArch
  • Department: Information and Library Science
  • Credit hours: 3
    Students with credit for INLS 261 or INLS 572 should not enroll in this course.
  • Prerequisite: No prerequisites, but students are expected to meet NC Technology Competencies. It is assumed that students will be to be able to use the Microsoft Windows operating system, a text editor such as Notepad or Wordpad, Microsoft Word, a Web browser, and e-mail.
  • UNC-Chapel Hill perspectives/requirements fulfilled: The Office of Undergraduate Curricula has links to information about which perspectives this course fulfills under the “Pre-2006 Curriculum” and which requirements it fulfills under the new curriculum (see “2006 Curriculum”).
  • View sample course syllabus.

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