Level: Intermediate
Prerequisite: None
Cost: $385 (nonmember, $580)
Attendance Maximum: None

Instructor(s): Diane K. Kovacs, Web Teacher, Kovacs Consulting, Internet and Web Training, Brunswick, OH

Offered: Saturday, May 17, 8:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m.

Learn to create a collection development plan for an electronic library of 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 libraries, other special libraries, etc.). Patron groups may include: health care consumers, physicians of general or particular specialty, nurses, pharmacists, medical school students, allied health students, biomedical researchers, etc. Participants will end the course with a good draft e-library collection development plan.

Note: There is a web-based portion of this course to follow the MLA '08 meeting. Participants will receive 15 MLA CE contact hours, representing their online and live course work.