The Palmer School of Long Island University offers a variety of courses in
a condensed format over the summer on current topics in the library and
information science field. The following course will be offered at our
Manhattan campus, located in Bobst Library of NYU:

LIS 900K Selecting, Managing, and Organizing Electronic Resources for
Your Library
M-F, August 6-10, 9:30-4:30
    This institute will address the selection and management of electronic
resources for a library and will provide participants with the
understanding of how to organize these resources for effective retrieval
by library users.  Topics to be examined include selection and collection
development policies and process; acquisitions and budgeting;  copyright
and intellectual property issues; licensing and authentication issues; and
metadata schemes and cataloging options.  Electronic resources to be
discussed include electronic journals and books, commercial databases,
full-text resources, and free Internet resources.

    Through this course, participants will: identify evolving roles of
collection development in the electronic environment; learn acquisitions
and budgeting procedures for library materials in electronic form;
identify issues related to copyright, intellectual property and
licensing; gain the ability to providing access to electronic resources
through metadata schemes; gain knowledge and skills of cataloging
electronic resources using AACR2 and  MARC21.
Professor: Rick Block is Head, Original and Special Materials Cataloging
at Columbia University, and an adjunct at the Palmer School. He is past
chair of the ALA/ALCTS Commercial Technical Services Committee and the
Cataloging and Classification Section Committee on Education, Training
and Recruitment for Cataloging. He moderated a program at the ALA 2000
annual conference on evaluating the outsourcing of technical services,
and developed and taught the Internet cataloging workshop for NELINET,
the regional OCLC network for New England.

For a brochure with more information on these and other courses please
contact:

Evangeline Booth
Program Director, Manhattan Campus
Palmer School of Library and Information Science
ebooth@liu.edu
212-998-2680
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