From: "Diane K. Kovacs" <diane_at_kovacs.com>
"Electronic Collection Development: Collecting and Organizing Web
Resources" http://www.kovacs.com/colldev.html is offered in-person as well
as Web-based this Fall:
In Person Workshops Fall 2005:
PALINET - October 28, 2005, 9:30-4:30, Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh,
Pittsburgh, PA.
http://www.palinet.org/services/edprogram/catalog/wsdesc.asp?WSID=173
PALINET - November 9, 2005, 9:30-4:30, Strayer University-Lower Bucks
County Campus, Trevose, PA. (Philadelphia Area).
http://www.palinet.org/services/edprogram/catalog/wsdesc.asp?WSID=173
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.
Materials
All materials will be online on interactive Web pages. Color printed
workbooks will be provided.
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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
Received on Thu Oct 13 2005 - 01:22:59 EDT