Final Project/Health and Medicine E-Library Collection Plan
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 health and medicine. 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., hospital, medical center, medical school, allied health programs, public libraries, academic library, other special library, etc.) Patron groups may include: Healthcare consumers, physicians of general or particular specialty, nurses, pharmacists, medical school students, allied health students, biomedical researchers, etc. Lecture, discussion and Web-based learning activities step participants through creating or assessing a collection plan for developing a e-library collection. This collection plan will be developed in four phases:- collection plan abstract or introduction
- collection strategy
- collection organization plan
- collection maintenance plan
Learning Objectives:
Librarians and other information specialists who work with healthcare consumers and/or healthcare professionals who need to develop or expand e-library collections of high quality Web-accessible information resources. Some experience with health and medical information searching on the Web is assumed. Experience working with the target patron group chosen is assumed (e.g., healthcare consumers, healthcare professionals) Level of instruction is intermediate.
Participants should know how to use e-mail and a current standard Web Browser, e.g.,Mozilla/Firefox, Netscape 7.0 or IE 5.5 or higher is preferred. Some HTML or HTML editor experience will be useful.
Register anytime to work-at-your-own pace with an instructor through e-mail and Web. $125.15 MLA CE
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Diane K. Kovacs is President of Kovacs Consulting - Internet & Web Training. She has 15 years of experience as a Web Teacher and Consultant. Diane has been designing and teaching Web-based MLA CE courses since 2001. She also designs and teaches Web-based courses for UIUC GSLIS LEEP, the ACRL, and other organizations.
Genealogical Research on Web was published in 2002 . How to Find Medical Information on the Internet: A Print and Online Tutorial for the Health Care Professional and Consumer (2000) (Library Solutions Press) and Building Electronic Library Collections: The Essential Guide to Selection Criteria and Core Collections (Neal-Schuman) were both published in 2000.
Diane's first book The Internet Trainer's Guide , was published in 1995. The Internet Trainer's Total Solution Guide was published in 1997. She has also co-authored with her husband Michael Kovacs, Cybrarians Guide to Successful Internet Programs and Services which was published by Neal-Schuman in 1997.
Diane Kovacs is the 2000 recipient of the "Documents to the People" award from the Government Documents Roundtable of the American Library Association. She was also the recipient of the Apple Corporation Library's, Internet Citizen Award for 1992 and was the University of Illinois Graduate School of Library and Information Science Alumni Association's first recipient of the Leadership Award in 1996. Since 1990 she has been the editor-in-chief of the Directory of Scholarly and Professional Electronic Conferences.
Diane received an M.S. in Library and Information Science from the University of Illinois in 1989 and an M.Ed. in Instructional Technology from Kent State University in 1993. She has a B.A. in Anthropology also from the University of Illinois, 1985.
©1993-2008, Diane K. Kovacs - diane at kovacs dot com or diane dot kovacs at gmail dot com