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Getting to grips with developing and managing e-book
collections: an introduction
to be held at the
Foresight Centre, University of Liverpool, 1 Brownlow
Street, Liverpool
Wednesday, 25th May 2011, 9.30 – 16.30
Course Outline
This introductory course opens the door to a new electronic
format and is designed to support librarians who are beginning to set up e-book
collections. In the last ten years, there has been an unprecedented growth in
the publishing of e-books with an increasing array of different types available
for all sectors. The programme will give you the opportunity to explore
different e-books including a range of commercially-published and free
reference works, monographs, textbooks, and fiction. Examples will include
individual titles and also collections of e-books, such as those offered by
Questia, Credo, MyiLibrary and Oxford University Press. The course will also
facilitate consideration of the new opportunities e-books offer for librarians
and users in academic, public and special library and information services, and
will explore some of the significant collection management and promotional
issues which challenge information and library staff.
The course is designed to offer delegates from all sectors:
In addition to talks by the presenters, the course includes
practical exercises. One will allow delegates to explore examples of online
e-books in a structured way. Others will comprise activities during which
delegates will examine the major collection management, and marketing and
promotion issues. Plenary sessions led by the course presenters will be held to
enable delegates to discuss their findings in the light of current research and
professional practice.
Course Presenters:
Chris Armstrong and Ray Lonsdale have been working and offering courses in
the field of e-books, e-resources and collection management for the past 14
years, both in the UK and abroad. Up until recently, they were members of the
Joint Information Systems Committee e-Book Working Group, which has been
promoting the publishing and uptake of e-books in further and higher education
and sixth form colleges. Ray is Reader in Information Studies at Aberystwyth
University and a Director of Information Automation Limited. He has specialised
in the field of collection management and, in particular, in the management of
electronic collections. Ray has published extensively and has edited several
national and international professional and academic journals. Chris runs a
consultancy, research and training company, Information Automation Limited,
which he set up in 1987. The company specialises in all forms of electronic
resources and in electronic publishing, a topic on which Chris has taught a
module in the Department in Aberystwyth. Chris is a regular writer, and sits on
the editorial boards of two professional journals.
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details are also available via the UKeiG website at www.ukeig.org.uk.
Getting to grips with developing and managing e-book
collections: an introduction
Foresight Centre, University of Liverpool, 1 Brownlow
Street, Liverpool
Wednesday, 25th May 2011, 9.30 – 16.30
Costs (including lunch and refreshments):
UKeiG members £180 + VAT at the current rate; others £220 +
VAT at the current rate
Please complete and return this form by 18th May
2011, to:
Christine Baker, Piglet Cottage, Redmire, Leyburn, North
Yorkshire DL8 4EH.
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