English Terms and Texts in Information science 1

Course Main Objective

This course aims to introduce students to English terms and concepts in Library & Information Science along with explaining their linguistic connotations, meanings and correlations as well as their uses in workplace.

Course Learning Outcomes

• 1. Knowledge and Comprehension
• 1.1 Explain concepts of English texts in Library & Information Science.
• 2. Skills
• 2.1 Translate some library articles from English to Arabic and vice versa.
• 2.2 Use information technology effectively when communicating in speech and in writing.
• 3. Values
• 3.1Bear self-learning responsibility; continue personal and professional development and work in group effectively.

Course Content:

• Define the mentioned technical terms and how to pronounce and inflect.
• Train over writing the mentioned terms and their derivatives, if any.
• Translate texts sentence by sentence and explain what is denoted and what is connoted.
• Formulate and revise texts and write them in Arabic.
• Train over possibility of writing some paragraphs of texts in different styles.
• Define some abbreviations in field of Library & Information Science.
• Translate a text in field of library and information. 

Textbook (s) 

Al-Zubaidi, Majed. K.N (2011). A Dictionary of Library & Information Science in Digital Space: English-Arabic”. Jordan: Arab Network for Information and Open Education. - (Arab Network publications series,14)., p.400 
New International Dictionary of Acronyms in Library and Information Science and Related Fields. - 3rd ed.-berlin: de grunter,2011. 
Al-Zubaidi, Majed. K.N (2009). A Dictionary of Abbreviations in Library and Information Science in the Internet Environment: English/Arabic”. Amman: Dar Safa for publishing and distribution. - p.304
Abdel Mo’tei, Yasser.Y. A Dictionary of Library and Information Science: English-Arabic with Indexation Arabic-English.
Dictionary of Library and Information Science: English- Arabic; Arabic- English Index
Aman, Mohamed (2010). Academic Libraries Management: Issues and Practices. - Global Information. 2(1).

Course ID: INFO 206