Call for Papers

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Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2003
From: Nancy Slight-Gibney (Univ. of Oregon) <nsg_at_uoregon.edu>
Subject: Call for Papers

THE ACQUISITIONS INSTITUTE AT TIMBERLINE LODGE
 
5th Annual Conference
Saturday, May 15 through Tuesday, May 18, 2004

CALL FOR PAPERS
WHAT IS The Acquisitions Institute?

*  The pre-eminent Western North America conference on acquisitions and 
collection development, now in its fifth year at Timberline Lodge.

*  A small, informal and stimulating gathering in a convivial and glorious 
Northwestern setting.

*  A three-day conference focusing on the methods and madness of building 
and managing library collections.

*  See The Acquisitions Institute home page 
(http://libweb.uoregon.edu/events/aitl/) for more information.


WHAT TOPICS are we looking for? 

	The planning committee is open to presentations on all aspects of 
library acquisitions and collection management. Presenters are encouraged 
to engage the audience in discussion. Panel discussions are well received. 
The planning committee may wish to bring individual proposals together to 
form panels. The committee is especially looking for submissions on the 
following topics: 

Operations management of acquisitions or collection development 
Organization for collection development 
Role of consortia in collection development 
Financial management, accounting practices, and audits 
Integrated library systems as management information systems 
Personnel issues and strategies for change 
Staff training 
Recruiting and retaining technical services and collection development 
librarians 
Changing roles of book vendors and subscription agents 
Vendor selection and assessment 
Economics of scholarly publishing 
Publishing, pricing and distributing electronic journals 
Electronic books: content, access, cataloging 
External forces driving a library's collection management decisions 
Problems of (and solutions for) managing electronic resources 

WHAT IS THE DEADLINE for submitting a proposal?

* December 1, 2003

HOW do I submit a proposal? 

* Send an abstract of 200 words or less to:

Richard Brumley
Head, Collection Development Department
Oregon State University Libraries
Corvallis, OR 97331-4501
Richard.Brumley_at_orst.edu
Voice: (541) 737-2118 
Fax: (541) 737-8267

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