Electronic Collection Development for the Academic E-Library

An ACRL Online Seminar
November 3-22, 2008

Registration for this course will open in October 2008.

Course Description:
In this hands-on course you will learn to create an academic 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. Patron groups may include: faculty, students, researchers, general public, subject specialists, etc. This collection plan will be developed in five parts. 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.

The instructor will use examples of well planned and designed e-libraries on the Web to illustrate each part.

Electronic Collection Development for the Academic E-Library is a primarily asynchronous seminar, allowing participants to work through course material at times convenient to them throughout the week. Participants may also choose to schedule chat time with one another or with the instructor, as they feel necessary. Specific material and activities are expected to be covered during each week of the course. Threaded discussion forums will be available for use in activities and other course-related conversations.

Learning Outcomes:
By the end of this seminar you will:

• have developed selection criteria, plan for collection, evaluation, organization, and maintenance of an e-library collection for the patron group of your choice at your library.
• have begun identifying, evaluating, selecting, and collecting appropriate free and fee-based Web-accessible resources for your e-library.

Participants will end the session with a completed collection development plan for the e-library collection they wish to develop including:

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

Experience working with the academic library patrons in the subject area chosen is assumed. Level of instruction is intermediate.

Participants should know how to use e-mail and a current standard Web Browser Mozilla/Firebird, Netscape 7.0 or IE 5.5 or higher is preferred. Some HTML or HTML editor experience will be useful.

Instructor:
Diane Kovacs, Kovacs Consulting

The instructor is the co-author of The Kovacs Guide to Electronic Library Collection Development: Essential Core Subject Collections, Selection Criteria, and Guidelines (Neal-Schuman, January 2004).

More information on Diane Kovacs

Course Requirements:
Your participation will require approximately three to five hours per week to:

• Read the online seminar material
• Post to online discussion boards
• Complete online exercises, which will result in a collection development plan for your e-library
• Complete a seminar evaluation form

Registration:
ACRL member: $135
ALA member: $175
CACUL member: Can$195 (charges will be made in U.S. dollars)
Nonmember: $195
Student: $60

Registration is now closed.

Member rates apply to personal memberships only. Want to join ACRL or ALA? Complete the online membership form, available on the ALA Web site. If you join ALA/ACRL within five days of registering, we will adjust your fee (please fax a copy of your completed registration form to ACRL at 312-280-2520).

Payment may be made by credit card or purchase order (PO) only.
If paying by PO, the PO number is required at the time of registration.

Class size is limited to 60 participants. Full refunds will be granted up to 14 days prior to the start of the seminar.