ALA Meeting Announcement (ALCTS/SSAC)

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Date: Tue, 3 May 2005
From: Eleanor Cook (Appalachian State Univ.) <cookei_at_appstate.edu>
Subject: ALA Meeting Announcement (ALCTS/SSAC)

Dear Colleagues:

You are cordially invited to the ALCTS Serials Section Acquisitions 
Committee Program at ALA Annual 2005 in Chicago.

The ALCTS SS Acquisitions Committee would like to acknowledge and thank 
Swets Information Services for their corporate
sponsorship of our program.

The program is also being co-sponsored by the following ALCTS Division 
Committees and Groups:  the ALCTS
Acquisitions Section Organization and Management Committee, the ALCTS 
Electronic Resources Management
Discussion Group and the ALCTS Serials Section Education Committee.

When: Saturday, June 25, 2005 from 1:30 pm to 3:30 pm.
Where: McCormick Place Convention Center Room S402

Title: Innovations in E-Journals Management

Come and hear about workflow innovations created by acquisitions, 
cataloging, serials and information technology departments
to meet the needs of their libraries created by the new e-resources 
available in the market place.  Librarians have had to make
changes to the way their staff and their technologies are used to make 
the workflow in their departments work better to supply
service and information to faculty and users about new titles and 
e-resources.  We have four innovators discussing the new
structure in their departments to handle the new information flow 
created by e-resources and e-journals.

Innovators: Emily McElroy (Head of Acquisitions, New York University), 
Patricia A. Loghry (Resource and Collections Special
Projects Librarian, University of Notre Dame), Robert Alan (Head, 
Serials and Acquisitions Services, Pennsylvania State University),
and Norm Medeiros (Coordinator, Bibliographic and Digital Services, 
Haverford College).

Emily will provide a brief overview of the difficulties facing 
librarians in managing electronic resources.  In addition, she will
discuss
some of the approaches she has taken in analyzing cross departmental 
workflow and the challenges and opportunities that
resulted in these studies. 

Patricia will discuss the licensing environment at the University of 
Notre Dame.  After a brief discussion of the different licensing
participants, she will discuss current workflows and recent changes.  
She will conclude with some possible trends she feels are
developing as well as some proposed management solutions.

Robert will focus on the impact of electronic resource management on 
serials acquisitions staffing.  The demarcation between
print and online has become blurred over the past several years.  What 
are some of the changes that impact the way we now
need to manage serials (both print and online)?  How to overcome 
resistance from staff who may not be ready or willing to
transition from print to online.  What skills sets, if any, associated 
with core tasks are transferable to electronic resources
management?  These are important issues that need to be addressed as 
staff transition from print to electronic resource management.

Norm will describe migration from two home-grown e-resources management 
systems to a commercial product; outsourcing
of select e-resource tasks to a serial agent; and creation of a model 
license for distribution to licensors for the Tri-College
Consortium of Bryn Mawr, Haverford, and Swarthmore Colleges.

There will be time for discussion and questions.  Please come and 
participate in the program.

Sandhya Srivastava
Chair, ALCTS Serials Section Acquisitions Committee
librsds_at_hofstra.edu

-- 

Eleanor I. Cook
Serials Coordinator & Professor
Belk Library, ASU Box 32026
Appalachian State University
Boone, NC 28608-2026
828-262-2786
828-262-2773 (fax)
cookei_at_appstate.edu

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