Management of School Library Resources for Teaching and Learning

Catalog description

This course provides candidates with hands-on experience in managing print and digital resources. Topics include: approaches to supporting curriculum through collection development; strategies for purchasing and acquisition of databases, books, and multimedia materials; cataloging and creating MARC records to provide effective access. Each candidate will create a fully functioning circulation/catalog system complete with overdue books, statistics reporting, reserve and temporary items and special collection groups. Recent trends in web-based access to library resources will be explored.