This course introduces ICT in LIS as the sociotechnical infrastructure that supports information services in libraries, archives, records centers, museums, and related institutions. Rather than treating ICT as a narrow set of office software skills, the course examines how people, metadata, standards, workflows, interfaces, databases, networks, platforms, and policies work together to make information services possible.
Students begin with service problems and move toward technical concepts only as those concepts become useful. Across the semester, they study networking and the web, databases, metadata and cataloguing, repositories, discovery systems, programming and automation, APIs and linked data, accessibility, preservation, cybersecurity, data literacy, and capstone integration. Practical work emphasizes professional judgment, ethical reasoning, and realistic service design.