Managing the Integration of E-Resources into Library Collections (KL-MIER)
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. This portfolio of courses provides a valuable opportunity to understand both the range of e-resources available and how best to manage growing library collections through the planned and regulated inclusion of e-journals, e-books, image collections, etc.
These courses were designed and developed by Chris Armstrong, Ray Lonsdale and Peter Underwood. All are acknowledged experts in e-resources use in libraries and collection management, and have been offering training worldwide in these areas for many years.
Download the Course brochure in printable form here (pdf): KL-MIER
Date and Venues
Gauteng
8 – 12 November 2010
Durban
15 – 19 November 2010
Course Fees
All fees are per person, excluding VAT. Multiple registrations from one organisation are eligible for a 7.5% discount. All fees must be paid before the commencement of the course, unless previous arrangements otherwise have been made. A cancellation fee of 25% of the course fees will be levied for cancellations made less than 10 working days prior to commencement of the course.
The Portfolio breakdown:
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 the specific needs and interests of participants.
The full five day programme is recommended for participants without previous exposure and experience to the management of e-resources in libraries
The first day of the course will provide an introduction to, and practical, hands-on experience of, a range of high-quality e-resource formats that libraries can use to enhance or replace print resources. Several examples will be used for each format to ensure coverage. The advantages of the medium to both libraries and their users will be discussed, and the day will form a natural basis for the rest of the week. At the end of the course participants will have: On completion of each of the workshops participants will receive a certificate of attendance. 
Objectives
The second part of the course will provide a basic understanding of some aspects of library collection management, as well as offering insights into many of the issues surrounding the management of e-resources in the library. The course will include modules on bibliographic control and resource location; e-resource evaluation; access; promotion; and licensing.
Following naturally on from the discussion on collection management, the final two days of the course will provide an introduction to Collection Development Policies (CDPs) and the need for them to incorporate statements relating to procedures that comprise collection development. Following some time spent on the nature, scope and structure of CDPs, there will be modules on Conspectus, developing statements for e-resources, and the administration and management of the CDP both within the library and within the institution/authority. Outcomes
Certification
Facilitators
Chris and Ray jointly run a regular series of training courses on the management of e-book collections in libraries and Collection Development Policies for e-Resources; these have been presented in many countries, including South Africa. The latter was also the subject of a year-long project with Peter Underwood working with 30 librarians in sub-Saharan Africa, funded by the Carnegie Foundation.
For more information on the facilitators click below.
Information Automation Limited, Penbryn, Bronant, Aberystwyth SY23 4TJ, United Kingdom
Phone: +44 1974 251302
Mail: lisqual@cix.co.uk
Web: http://www.i-a-l.co.uk
Chris Armstrong is Managing Director of Information Automation Limited (IAL), a consultancy, research and training company in the library and information management sector which was established in 1987. Chris’s work focuses on electronic information resources, and their effective management in libraries and information centers. In recent years, e-books have been the subject of much of the company’s research work, and it was recently a partner in the JISC National e-Book Observatory. Chris is a regular writer, and sits on the editorial boards of three professional journals. He has been associated with the Department of Information Studies in Aberystwyth University for some 30 years and has been Director of its International Graduate Summer School and module coordinator for courses on electronic publishing, as well as offering occasional lectures and short courses on e-resources and web-site design. Chris publishes, and speaks at conferences regularly. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Analysts and Programmers (FIAP), as well as of the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals (CILIP), of which he is currently a National Councillor.
Information Automation Limited & Department of Information Studies, Aberystwyth University, Llanbadarn Fawr, Aberystwyth SY23 3AS, United Kingdom
Phone: +44 1970 622173
Mail: rel@aber.ac.uk
Ray Lonsdale is a director of Information Automation Limited and Reader in Information Studies at Aberystwyth University with responsibility for children’s librarianship. He also teaches and researches in the fields of collection management and research methodology. He has co-directed several research projects in this field with Chris Armstrong including the 5-year JUSTEIS project which investigated the provision and use of e-resources in further and higher education. He is the author of numerous articles, co-authored Focus on the child: libraries, literacy and learning with Professor Judith Elkin, and was Editor of the International review of children’s literature and libraries, Youth library review and more recently The school librarian. For the past twenty years he has been a consultant working internationally, most recently in South Africa where he has run workshops on e-resource provision and in Palestine where he led the work on the establishment of the Qattan Centre for the Child in Gaza City.
Knowledge Leadership Associates & Centre for Information Literacy, University of Cape Town, Private Bag X03, Rondebosch 7701, South Africa.
Phone: +27 21 650 3091
Mail: Peter.Underwood@uct.ac.za
Web: http//www.ched.uct.ac.za/departments/cil/
Peter G. Underwood is Professor of Librarianship at the University of Cape Town, having occupied this position since 1992. Prior to this he spent twenty years as Lecturer in the Department of Information Studies, University College of Wales, Aberystwyth, United Kingdom. He is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals and a Member of the Association of Southern Africa Indexers and Bibliographers.
He is the author of Managing change in libraries and information services: a systems approach and Soft systems analysis and the management of libraries, information services and resource centres, and co-author of Basics of data management for information services. More recently, he has been writing a book with Colin Darch, provisionally entitled Freedom of information in the developing world: demand, compliance and democratic behaviour; this will be published in late 2009. He has also published many journal articles and other material. He is the Editor of the South African journal of libraries and information science and is an External reviewer for Education for information and Journal of libraries and information science.
His teaching and research focuses on information literacy, information systems management and organizational behaviour in the context of libraries and information services. His work as former Director of the University of Cape Town’s Centre for Information Literacy has given him experience of planning and delivering workshops on information literacy and web searching. He has, for many years, provided discipline-specific web searching workshops in the Western Cape to audiences as diverse as business students, students of design and photography, medical clinicians and engineers.
Further Enquiries
Gretchen Smith
Cell: 082 411 4944
E-mail: gretchen@knowlead.co.za
Ben Fouche
Cell: 083 391 6671
E-mail: bf@knowlead.co.za
Registration
Should you be interested in attending the course, please email gretchen@knowlead.co.za to request an application form. Alternatively you can fill out the form below and we will send you the required documentation.
cforms contact form by delicious:days
- Payment must be made before the commencement of the course. Special arrangement must be made for later payment. In this case an order number must be provided at least one week before the commencement of the course.
- 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 teas, lunches, and the cost of hand-out materials, but not accommodation.
- A cancellation fee of 25% of the course fees will be levied for cancellations made less than 10 working days prior to the 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 seven working days before the course, will be liable for the full course fees in their personal capacity.
- Should it be impossible to hold the course at the designated dates as a result of unavoidable circumstances such as natural disaster, disruption due to civil unrest, 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.
Information Automation Limited, Penbryn, Bronant, Aberystwyth SY23 4TJ, United Kingdom
Phone: +44 1974 251302
Mail: lisqual@cix.co.uk
Web: http://www.i-a-l.co.uk
Chris Armstrong is Managing Director of Information Automation Limited (IAL), a consultancy, research and training company in the library and information management sector which was established in 1987. Chris’s work focuses on electronic information resources, and their effective management in libraries and information centers. In recent years, e-books have been the subject of much of the company’s research work, and it was recently a partner in the JISC National e-Book Observatory. Chris is a regular writer, and sits on the editorial boards of three professional journals. He has been associated with the Department of Information Studies in Aberystwyth University for some 30 years and has been Director of its International Graduate Summer School and module coordinator for courses on electronic publishing, as well as offering occasional lectures and short courses on e-resources and web-site design. Chris publishes, and speaks at conferences regularly. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Analysts and Programmers (FIAP), as well as of the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals (CILIP), of which he is currently a National Councillor.
Information Automation Limited & Department of Information Studies, Aberystwyth University, Llanbadarn Fawr, Aberystwyth SY23 3AS, United Kingdom
Phone: +44 1970 622173
Mail: rel@aber.ac.uk
Ray Lonsdale is a director of Information Automation Limited and Reader in Information Studies at Aberystwyth University with responsibility for children’s librarianship. He also teaches and researches in the fields of collection management and research methodology. He has co-directed several research projects in this field with Chris Armstrong including the 5-year JUSTEIS project which investigated the provision and use of e-resources in further and higher education. He is the author of numerous articles, co-authored Focus on the child: libraries, literacy and learning with Professor Judith Elkin, and was Editor of the International review of children’s literature and libraries, Youth library review and more recently The school librarian. For the past twenty years he has been a consultant working internationally, most recently in South Africa where he has run workshops on e-resource provision and in Palestine where he led the work on the establishment of the Qattan Centre for the Child in Gaza City.
Knowledge Leadership Associates & Centre for Information Literacy, University of Cape Town, Private Bag X03, Rondebosch 7701, South Africa.
Phone: +27 21 650 3091
Mail: Peter.Underwood@uct.ac.za
Web: http//www.ched.uct.ac.za/departments/cil/
Peter G. Underwood is Professor of Librarianship at the University of Cape Town, having occupied this position since 1992. Prior to this he spent twenty years as Lecturer in the Department of Information Studies, University College of Wales, Aberystwyth, United Kingdom. He is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals and a Member of the Association of Southern Africa Indexers and Bibliographers.
He is the author of Managing change in libraries and information services: a systems approach and Soft systems analysis and the management of libraries, information services and resource centres, and co-author of Basics of data management for information services. More recently, he has been writing a book with Colin Darch, provisionally entitled Freedom of information in the developing world: demand, compliance and democratic behaviour; this will be published in late 2009. He has also published many journal articles and other material. He is the Editor of the South African journal of libraries and information science and is an External reviewer for Education for information and Journal of libraries and information science.
His teaching and research focuses on information literacy, information systems management and organizational behaviour in the context of libraries and information services. His work as former Director of the University of Cape Town’s Centre for Information Literacy has given him experience of planning and delivering workshops on information literacy and web searching. He has, for many years, provided discipline-specific web searching workshops in the Western Cape to audiences as diverse as business students, students of design and photography, medical clinicians and engineers.
Further Enquiries
Gretchen Smith
Cell: 082 411 4944
E-mail: gretchen@knowlead.co.za
Ben Fouche
Cell: 083 391 6671
E-mail: bf@knowlead.co.za
Registration
Should you be interested in attending the course, please email gretchen@knowlead.co.za to request an application form. Alternatively you can fill out the form below and we will send you the required documentation.
cforms contact form by delicious:days
- Payment must be made before the commencement of the course. Special arrangement must be made for later payment. In this case an order number must be provided at least one week before the commencement of the course.
- 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 teas, lunches, and the cost of hand-out materials, but not accommodation.
- A cancellation fee of 25% of the course fees will be levied for cancellations made less than 10 working days prior to the 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 seven working days before the course, will be liable for the full course fees in their personal capacity.
- Should it be impossible to hold the course at the designated dates as a result of unavoidable circumstances such as natural disaster, disruption due to civil unrest, 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.
Knowledge Leadership Associates & Centre for Information Literacy, University of Cape Town, Private Bag X03, Rondebosch 7701, South Africa.
Phone: +27 21 650 3091
Mail: Peter.Underwood@uct.ac.za
Web: http//www.ched.uct.ac.za/departments/cil/
Peter G. Underwood is Professor of Librarianship at the University of Cape Town, having occupied this position since 1992. Prior to this he spent twenty years as Lecturer in the Department of Information Studies, University College of Wales, Aberystwyth, United Kingdom. He is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals and a Member of the Association of Southern Africa Indexers and Bibliographers.
He is the author of Managing change in libraries and information services: a systems approach and Soft systems analysis and the management of libraries, information services and resource centres, and co-author of Basics of data management for information services. More recently, he has been writing a book with Colin Darch, provisionally entitled Freedom of information in the developing world: demand, compliance and democratic behaviour; this will be published in late 2009. He has also published many journal articles and other material. He is the Editor of the South African journal of libraries and information science and is an External reviewer for Education for information and Journal of libraries and information science.
His teaching and research focuses on information literacy, information systems management and organizational behaviour in the context of libraries and information services. His work as former Director of the University of Cape Town’s Centre for Information Literacy has given him experience of planning and delivering workshops on information literacy and web searching. He has, for many years, provided discipline-specific web searching workshops in the Western Cape to audiences as diverse as business students, students of design and photography, medical clinicians and engineers.
Further Enquiries
Gretchen Smith
Cell: 082 411 4944 E-mail: gretchen@knowlead.co.za
Ben Fouche
Cell: 083 391 6671E-mail: bf@knowlead.co.za
Registration
Should you be interested in attending the course, please email gretchen@knowlead.co.za to request an application form. Alternatively you can fill out the form below and we will send you the required documentation.
cforms contact form by delicious:days
- Payment must be made before the commencement of the course. Special arrangement must be made for later payment. In this case an order number must be provided at least one week before the commencement of the course.
- 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 teas, lunches, and the cost of hand-out materials, but not accommodation.
- A cancellation fee of 25% of the course fees will be levied for cancellations made less than 10 working days prior to the 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 seven working days before the course, will be liable for the full course fees in their personal capacity.
- Should it be impossible to hold the course at the designated dates as a result of unavoidable circumstances such as natural disaster, disruption due to civil unrest, 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.