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.