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This two-week online workshop is the fifth in a series of five which together cover the lifecycle of electronic resources. The workshops can be taken independently or sequentially.

Topics include:

• Review problems
• Downtime analysis; turnaways
• Usage Stats; price per use
• Trials (When, who gets to see them)
• User feedback
• Retention decisions
• Anything else related to evaluating electronic resources

There will be 3 assignments:

1. One page on defining electronic resources (Anyone who has completed a previous workshop may skip this assignment)
2. Two paragraphs reviewing an article on any topic related to evaluating electronic resources
3. Two-three page assignment on trials and evaluations

The heart of the course will be participation. Successful completion of the workshop will be based in part on level of participation in discussion with your peers in the class.

This class will take place on Angel. It will include online communications and discussions among students and the instructor through message boards. Students are strongly encouraged to participate with online discussions and assignments.

This class will take approximately 4-8 hours to complete.

The Lifecycle of Electronic Resources Series

1. Acquiring Electronic Resources
2. Providing Access to Electronic Resources
3. Administering Electronic Resources
4. Providing Support for Electronic Resources
5. Evaluating Electronic Resources

Instructor:
Karin Wikoff, MLS, Electronic Resources Librarian, Ithaca College

Karin Wikoff has a BA in German (Wells College, 1986), an MA in German Studies (Cornell 1995) and an MLS from Syracuse (2002).

After 17 years as a cataloging assistant at a very small academic library, I went to library school at Syracuse and got my MLS, graduating in August 2002. I had a variety of high-level duties as a library assistant, so I was all ready to go as an Electronic Resources Librarian at Ithaca College as my first professional position. I have now moved up to department head with the lengthy title of Electronic and Technical Services Librarian, but am in my third go-around covering my old position in e-resources as well as my new duties as head of Tech Services. Don’t try this at home!

I get very passionate about electronic resources, and had wanted to teach a class on the subject for a long time. The material for this course is adapted from the graduate course I taught at Syracuse in the spring of 2009.

The purpose of this series of workshops is to give you enough practical information about managing electronic resources to be ready to take a job in the field or to fine-tune the work you may already be doing. I should warn all my students that I am also very passionate about football. I played a year of women's pro football for the now-defunct Syracuse Sting and I am an avid New York Giants fan. However, I promise not to penalize you if you have no interest in football, nor even if you are a Dallas Cowboys fan.

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