Library Collection Management & Policies for e-Publications (with IAL) (KL-LCME)
The transition to electronic sources of information has recently gathered momentum and is affecting all subject areas and services to all levels of user: scientific and technical sources, community information, reading materials for children. The acquisition, provision and management of these e-resources leave librarians in all library and information sectors with a new and wide-ranging set of challenges. How can one find this material, how should it be managed in a modern library service? Come and find out.
The Portfolio:
The portfolio of courses provides a valuable opportunity to understand both the range of e-resources and how best to manage growing library collections through the planned and regulated inclusion of e-journals, e-books, image collections, etc.
The following diagram indicates how the full programme can be broken into individual workshops, each of which can be taken separately on the days specified in order to meet participants’ specific needs and interests.
Outcomes
At the end of the course participants will have:
- A familiarity with a range of e-resource types (e-journals, institutional repositories, e-news sources, image collections, e-books, weblogs), and will have used or examined examples of each.
- An in-depth awareness of the different kinds of e-book: reference, textbook, study guides.
- Understood the difference between free, licensed/charged for, open access published, and open access institutional repositorie
- An appreciation of the role of aggregators, service providers and publishers
- An understanding of the advantages of e-resources and their place within the library collection
- understood the issues surrounding the addition of e-resources to a library collection
- appreciated the difficulties surrounding locating and selecting e-resources
- developed an e-resource evaluation criteria checklist
- evaluated at least two e-resources
- considered possible ways of providing user access to library e-resources and the associated management issues
- recognised the importance of, and generated and worked through a series of ideas for, promoting e-resources
- gained a basic knowledge of licensing and the issues to consider when acquiring e-resources
- an appreciation of nature and benefits of a having a library Collection Development Policy (CDP)
- understood the structure and component parts of a CDP
- thoughts about the use and users of the CDP
- considered the need for Conspectus as a means of describing the subject collections
- positioned the CDP within the strategic management, and in relation to other institutional policy documents
- considered the implications of administering the CDP process
- developed, drafted, analysed and discussed embryo CDP statements for selection, licensing, access, IT
Course Facilitators
Chris Armstrong
Ray Lonsdale
Peter G. Underwood
Course Duration
This course is offered as a 5-day programme, which can be subdivided into 4 workshops of (2x) two, three and four days respectively.
Course Fees
Full 5-day course: R9,380.00
1-day workshop: R2,280.00
2-day workshops: R4,300.00
3-day workshop: R6,100.00
4-day workshop: R7,680.00
All fees are per person, excluding VAT. Multiple registrations from one organisation are eligible for a 7.5% discount.
Dates and Venues
Knowledge Leadership Associates in association with Information Automation Ltd. now offer this portfolio of six courses in both.
Midrand during the week of 12-16 March 2012
Cape Town during the week of 26-30 March 2012
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Terms and Conditions
- Payment must be made before the commencement of the course unless special arrangements has been made with the course organisers for later payment and an official order number provided at least two weeks before the commencement of the course. Proof of payment, such as a faxed bank deposit or electronic transfer slip must be faxed to +27 (0)21 8545480 or emailed to bf@knowlead.co.za
- Due to the interactive nature of the course, only a limited number of participants can be accommodated.
- Upon receipt of a completed registration form your registration will be confirmed by fax or email.
- The course fees include refreshments and hand-out materials, but not accommodation.
- A cancellation fee of 25% of the course fees will be levied for cancellations made later than 10days prior to commencement of the course. Applicants whose reservations have been confirmed by the course organisers, but who do not attend the course and have not formally cancelled at least 7 days before the commencement of the course, will be liable for the full course fees.
- If the designated employing organisation declines to pay the course fees, the person who registered and/or attended the course will be liable for payment.
- Should it be impossible to hold the course on the designated dates as a result of unavoidable circumstances including but not limited to natural disaster, disruption due to civil unrest, prolonged power failure, failure of telecommunication lines or serious illness of key presenters, the course fees will be refunded and the course rescheduled. Should this happen the applicant hereby agrees to exempt the organisers from any other direct or indirect costs and inconvenience other than course fees paid.
- In the unlikely event of a dispute between the organisers and the course participant, the parties agree to resolve the matter by arbitration under the guidance of a mutually acceptable arbitrator appointed by the Arbitration Foundation of Southern Africa. The liability of the parties to the arbitration will be limited to the amount of the course fees plus the direct costs of the arbitration, and interest calculated at the applicable prime bank rate.