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. Checklist for Developing a Collection Development Plan for the E- Library
• Activity 3. Preliminary Planning Questions 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 Web 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

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Overview

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:

1. collection plan abstract or introduction
2. collection strategy
3. collection organization plan
4. collection maintenance plan

We will use examples of good health and medical e-libraries on the Web to illustrate each phase.

Learning Objectives:

1. Participants will develop selection criteria, plan for collection, evaluation, organization, and maintenance of an e-library collection for a patron group of their choice in a the kind of library they choose.
2. Participants will have begun identifying, evaluating, selecting, and collecting appropriate free and fee-based Web-accessible resources for health and medicine.
3. Participants will end the session with a completed collection development plan for the health and medicine e-library collection they wish to develop.

Audience

Librarians and other information specialists who need to develop or expand e-library collections of high quality Web-accessible information resources. Some experience with information searching on the Web is assumed.

Experience working with the target patron group chosen is assumed. Level of instruction is intermediate.Participants should know how to use e-mail and a current standard Web BrowserMozilla/Firefox, or Internet Explorer -- current versions are best.. Some HTML or HTML editor experience will be useful. Recommended but not required:

Registration & Tuition

Register anytime to work-at-your-own-pace with a Web teacher through e-mail, chat and Moodle. $275 -30 CE from the MLA

About the Web Teacher

Diane K. Kovacs is President of Kovacs Consulting - Internet &Web Training.She has been a Web Teacher and Consultant for nearly 20 years. She designs and teaches Web-based and in-person courses for organizations and individuals including UIUC GSLIS LEEP, SJSU SLIS, ALAEditions, ACRL, MLA, and others. Diane has been designing and teaching Web-based and in-person MLA Approved CE Courses since 2001

Her most recent book is 7 Steps to Effective Online Teaching forthcoming from ALA Editions. The Kovacs Guide to Electronic Library Collection Development: Essential Core Subject Collections, Selection Criteria, and Guidelines, 2nd Edition was published in 2009 by Neal-Schuman Publishers. The Virtual Reference Handbook: Interview and Information Delivery Techniques for the Chat and E-Mail Environments Neal-Schuman Publishers (2007) was published concurrently in the United Kingdom by Facet Publishers (2007).

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.

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.

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