The Online Learning Institute’s Copyright Course will provide a basic level practitioner's overview of resource sharing combined with a layered foundation of copyright and fair use as it applies to libraries and resource sharing. This course will include a basic understanding of copyright best practices as applied to Borrowing, Lending, and Document Delivery. Successful completion of this course includes weekly attendance at 3 out of 4 live sessions.

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The Online Learning Institute’s Lending Course will provide an overview of resource sharing combined with a layered foundation of Interlibrary Loan Lending best practices and resources. This course will include an understanding of resource sharing language, tools, practical workflow processes, integrated resources, and future transitions. Successful completion of this course includes weekly attendance to 3 out of 4 live sessions.

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The Online Learning Institute’s Statistics and Assessment Course will explore and provide an increased understanding of how data can assist different types of decision making processes from policy to practice. Students will also gain an increased understanding of how to gather data, identify ways in which the data can impact decisions made and learn about best ways to present it. Successful completion of this course includes weekly attendance at 3 out of 4 live sessions and completion of a final project, which is designed to specifically support priorities happening in each student’s library during the course timeframe.

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The Online Learning Institute’s Workflow Analysis Course will increase students’ knowledge of tools and technologies that can be implemented to improve repetitive standard ILL processes for both staff and patron users. This course will also focus on how to conduct workflow analysis for your ILL department and give hands-on experience applicable to your own resource sharing unit. Successful completion of this course includes weekly attendance at 3 out of 4 live sessions and completion of a final project.

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The Online Learning Institute’s Purchase on Demand Course will engage students in basic principles of a monograph-focused purchase on demand program in order to be informed of a variety of models currently in place at academic libraries of various sizes. This course will emphasize programs through which new monographs (print and e-books) and other physical materials are added to library collections, and article purchasing will be briefly discussed. Students will create a workflow that incorporates a new purchase on demand program into current procedures, and facilitators will briefly discuss how a program can bolster additional library services, such as information literacy. Successful completion of this course includes weekly attendance at 3 out of 4 live sessions.

For more course information visit: https://www.idsproject.org/OLI/PurchaseOnDemand.aspx