Course Information
| Session |
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| Credits | 1.5 CEUs or 15 PDHs |
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| Registration dates | We accept registrations through the first week of classes, unless enrollment is full, and unless the class was canceled before it started due to low enrollment. |
Collection Management in the Health Sciences
$250.00
Dates: February 1 - February 28Credits: 1.5 CEUs or 15 PDHs
This course examines the principles and practices of collection development and management within health sciences environments. Emphasis is placed on the unique characteristics of biomedical literature, clinical decision-support tools, interdisciplinary research resources, and emerging digital formats.
Participants will explore collection assessment, budgeting, vendor negotiation, licensing, resource evaluation, and issues related to access, equity, and open access publishing. The course also addresses how rapidly evolving information ecosystems affect acquisition strategies and long-term sustainability.
In addition to learning how to build and evaluate collections for diverse user populations, participants will examine how collection strategies support their own teaching, research, and professional scholarship. By the end of the course, learners will be equipped to make strategic collection decisions that benefit both their institutions and their individual professional practice.
Course Description
This course examines the principles and practices of collection development and management within health sciences environments. Emphasis is placed on the unique characteristics of biomedical literature, clinical decision-support tools, interdisciplinary research resources, and emerging digital formats.
Participants will explore collection assessment, budgeting, vendor negotiation, licensing, resource evaluation, and issues related to access, equity, and open access publishing. The course also addresses how rapidly evolving information ecosystems affect acquisition strategies and long-term sustainability.
In addition to learning how to build and evaluate collections for diverse user populations, participants will examine how collection strategies support their own teaching, research, and professional scholarship. By the end of the course, learners will be equipped to make strategic collection decisions that benefit both their institutions and their individual professional practice.
Matthew Noe
Matthew Noe (he/him) is currently Lead Collection & Knowledge Management Librarian at Harvard Medical School's Countway Library. He also teaches as a Part-Time Instructor at the University of Kentucky, School of Information. He is most well-known for work in comics librarianship, health sciences librarianship, and in particular, graphic medicine. Matthew was the 2021-2022 President of the American Library Association’s Graphic Novels and Comics Round Table and has been the Treasurer for the Graphic Medicine International Collective since 2019. He is currently serving a six-year term on the Worcester Public Library Board of Directors. In addition to numerous book chapters on collection management and graphic medicine, Matthew is a comics reviewer for both Booklist and his Diamond Bookshelf column, "Noe's Comics Nook." You can often find him overcaffeinated, ranting about all manner of things on Twitter, or curled up with two dogs, a book, and not enough hands.
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