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Chicago—91´«Ã½ Publishing eLearning Solutions announces a new facilitated eCourse, . Jill Burket Ragase will serve as the instructor for a 4-week facilitated eCourse starting on Monday, January 14, 2019.

Managing children’s materials in the library can be a challenge. Books look, feel, and age differently than they do in other collections. Multimedia and AV materials come and go quickly and must stand up to both the scrutiny of parents and handling by kids. The process begins long before physical items have arrived at the library and ends after weeding. In this new four-week eCourse, you’ll work through all the phases of the collection management circle of life—from initial selection to weeding—focusing on customer service and good stewardship of financial resources. Instructor and experienced children’s librarian Jill Burket Ragase covers

• Best practices for evaluating items of varying formats to add to your library’s collection
• Tips to efficiently acquire and process new materials, so they reach your patrons as quickly as possible
• Strategies to maximize the circulation of materials and track circulation in combination with displays, programs, and other collection marketing efforts
• Implementing the MUSTY method in combination with circulation statistics to improve the deselection process and weed your collection with confidence

eCourse outline

• Week 1: Selection and acquisition
  • Our overview of selection and acquisition will focus on best practices for evaluation of items to be added to the collection. Resources for a variety of formats will be shared and discussed as well as the varying selection criteria for different formats.
• Week 2: Acquisition and Processing
  • We will briefly touch on tips and tricks to move items efficiently through this phase and focus on placing items in the hands of our patrons as quickly as possible. We will cover juvenile collection quagmires such a labeling and cataloging/shelving options for series and formats.
• Week 3: Circulation
  • As we move to the circulation phase, we will discuss using your OPAC’s report functions and/or Excel to track circulation in combination with displays, programs, and other collection marketing efforts to maximize this phase of the item’s life.
• Week 4: Weeding
  • Finally, we will arrive at deselection with a deep dive into weeding using the MUSTY method in combination with circulation statistics. In this segment, we will also cover right sizing your collection and disposal options for materials as well as how to get your staff on board with the deselection process.

About the Instructor

Jill Burket Ragase has eagerly shared her passion for collection development and Youth Services as an Independent Library Consultant for five years. She is the former Juvenile Collection Development Librarian for the Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County, an SLJ 5-star library and winner of the National Medal for Museum and Library Services. She lives in Cincinnati, Ohio with her husband and their four children.

Registration for this 91´«Ã½ Publishing eLearning Solutions facilitated eCourse, which begins on January 14, 2019, can be purchased at the . Participants in this course will need regular access to a computer with an internet connection for online message board participation, viewing online video, listening to streaming audio (MP3 files), and downloading and viewing PDF and PowerPoint files.

91´«Ã½ Publishing eLearning Solutions (ELS) produces high-quality professional development events and materials for the library profession. ELS events cover modern issues on a wide variety of topics in formats that include live workshops, asynchronous eCourses, and print publications. We help ensure that today’s library employees have access to the professional development opportunities they need, whether they are brushing up on the basics or expanding their horizons with cutting-edge tools. Contact us at elsmarketing@ala.org.

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