Electronic Collection Development for Health and Medical E-Libraries
Web-based (Moodle) course - Register to work -at-your-own-pace anytime - 15 CE from the MLA
Phase 1. Collection Planning
- Lectures and Required Readings:
- Introduction and Overview: Planning for the e-library collection
- Why create e-library collections?
- Definition of e-resources and e-libraries.
- Planning for collecting and organizing e-resources
- Preliminary planning for Web resource collections:
- Learning Activities:
- Activity 1. Review of Electronic Collection Development Policies for E-Libraries
- Activity 2. Preliminary Planning Questions for the E-Library
- Activity 3. Checklist for Developing a Collection Development Plan for the E- Library
Phase 2. Collection Strategies
- Lectures and Required Readings:
- Web Resource Collection Strategies: Resource Types and User Information Needs
- Selection criteria for e-resources
- Web resource licensing guides and discussions
- Evaluating e-resources
- Electronic Library Collection Development Tools
- Learning Activities:
- Activity 4. How and Where to Collect Web-Accessible Resources
- Activity 5. Identifying, Evaluating, and Selecting Web-Accessible Resources
Phase 3. Collection Organization
- Lectures and Required Readings:
- Information Architecture and Web Resource Collection Organization and Access for E-libraries
- Overview of "cataloging" e-resources, Dublin Core, & XML.
- Learning Activity:
- Activity 6. Planning Organization and Access for the E- Library
Phase 4. Collection Maintenance
- Lectures and Required Readings:
- E-library/Web Resource Collection Maintenance
- Learning Activity:
- Activity 7. E-library Collection Maintenance Plan
Final Project/ E-Library Collection Plan
In this hands-on course you will learn to create an e-library collection development plan for free and fee-based Web-accessible resources for health and medicine. Students will focus on developing a collection plan for one library patron group of their choice, for the kind of library they work in (e.g., hospital, medical center, medical school, allied health programs, public libraries, academic library, other special library, etc.) Patron groups may include: Healthcare consumers, physicians of general or particular specialty, nurses, pharmacists, medical school students, allied health students, biomedical researchers, etc. Lecture, discussion and Web-based learning activities step participants through creating or assessing a collection plan for developing a e-library collection. This collection plan will be developed in four phases:- collection plan abstract or introduction
- collection strategy
- collection organization plan
- collection maintenance plan
Learning Objectives:
Librarians and other information specialists who work with healthcare consumers and/or healthcare professionals who need to develop or expand e-library collections of high quality Web-accessible information resources. Some experience with health and medical information searching on the Web is assumed. Experience working with the target patron group chosen is assumed (e.g., healthcare consumers, healthcare professionals) Level of instruction is intermediate.
Participants should know how to use e-mail and a current standard Web Browser, e.g.,Mozilla/Firefox, or Internet Explorer -- current versions are best.. Some HTML or HTML editor experience will be useful.
Register anytime to work-at-your-own-pace with a Web teacher through e-mail, chat and Moodle. $175 - 15 CE from the Medical Library Association
Recommended text:The Kovacs Guide to Electronic Library Collection Development: Essential Core Subject Collections, Selection Criteria, and Guidelines, 2nd Edition is in press for 2009 publication by Neal-Schuman Publishers.
Diane K. Kovacs is President of Kovacs Consulting - Internet & Web Training. She has more than 15 years of experience as a Web Teacher and Consultant. Diane has been designing and teaching Web-based MLA Approved CE Courses since 2001. She also designs and teaches Web-based courses for UIUC GSLIS LEEP, the ACRL, and other organizations.
The Kovacs Guide to Electronic Library Collection Development: Essential Core Subject Collections, Selection Criteria, and Guidelines, 2nd Edition is in press for 2009 publication by Neal-Schuman Publishers. The Virtual Reference Handbook: Interview and Information Delivery Techniques for the Chat and E-Mail Environments by Kovacs, Diane K. Neal-Schuman Publishers (2007) published concurrently in the United Kingdom by Facet Publishers (2007)
Genealogical Research on Web was published in 2002. How to Find Medical Information on the Internet: A Print and Online Tutorial for the Health Care Professional and Consumer (2000) (Library Solutions Press)and Building Electronic Library Collections: The Essential Guide to Selection Criteria and Core Collections (Neal-Schuman) were both published in 2000.
Diane's first book The Internet Trainer's Guide , was published in 1995. The Internet Trainer's Total Solution Guide was published in 1997. She has also co-authored with her husband Michael Kovacs, Cybrarians Guide to Successful Internet Programs and Services which was published by Neal-Schuman in 1997.
Diane Kovacs is the 2000 recipient of the "Documents to the People" award from the Government Documents Roundtable of the American Library Association. She was also the recipient of the Apple Corporation Library's, Internet Citizen Award for 1992 and was the University of Illinois Graduate School of Library and Information Science Alumni Association's first recipient of the Leadership Award in 1996. Since 1990 she has been the editor-in-chief of the Directory of Scholarly and Professional Electronic Conferences.
Diane received an M.S. in Library and Information Science from the University of Illinois in 1989 and an M.Ed. in Instructional Technology from Kent State University in 1993. She has a B.A. in Anthropology also from the University of Illinois, 1985.