"Electronic Collection Development:  Collecting and Organizing Web Resources"
Register at anytime to work at your own pace during 2004.

*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 is
preferred. Some HTML or HTML editor experience will be useful.

Registration and Tuition

http://www.kovacs.com/register.html
The workshop tuition is $150 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.

Web Teacher
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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