"Electronic Collection Development: Collecting and Organizing Web Resources" Web-based course

[Diane K. Kovacs]

  "Electronic Collection Development:  Collecting and Organizing Web Resources"
Register at anytime to work at your own pace during 2005/2006.

*This Web-based course involves individually paced work working
with the Web Teacher via Web activities, e-mail and  optional online meetings.

Agenda

Syllabus at http://www.kovacs.com/colldev.html
Register at http://www.kovacs.com/register.html

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 a patron community of your choice. 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., public libraries, 
academic library, special library, etc.) Patron groups may include: 
Healthcare consumers,faculty, students, researchers, general public, 
children, etc. This is a five part course. Each part includes 
lecture, discussion and hands-on activities that will step 
participants through creating or assessing a collection plan for 
developing a e-library collection:

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

Learning Objectives:

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.

Participants will have begun identifying, evaluating, selecting, and 
collecting appropriate free and fee-based Web-accessible resources 
for .

Participants will end the session with a completed collection 
development plan for the 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 
Browser, e.g.,Mozilla/Firebird, Netscape 7.0 or IE 5.5 or higher. 
Some HTML or HTML editor experience will be useful.

Registration and Tuition

http://www.kovacs.com/register.html
The workshop tuition is $175 per person

Materials

All materials will be online on interactive Web pages. Color printed
workbooks will be priority mailed to each participant on receipt of
payment, or purchase order.


-- 
Diane K. Kovacs - Web Teacher http://www.kovacs.com
The Kovacs Guide to Electronic Library Collection Development: 
Essential Core Subject Collections, Selection Criteria, and 
Guidelines  by Kovacs, Diane K. & Robinson, Kara L. (January 2004) 
Neal-Schuman Publishers.     http://www.neal-schuman.com/db/7/347.html