ALA Meeting Announcement (ALCTS/SS Educ. Comm.)

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

ALCTS Program at ALA Annual Conference, Chicago 2005
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How to Assess Your Vendors' Financial Viability

Date: Monday, June 27, 2005
Time: 8:00 am - 10:00 am
Location: McCormick Place Convention Center, Room S105d

This program will feature a panel of three notable and expert speakers 
who have worked in libraries and/or information
industry firms. Their presentations will explain that librarians take 
substantial risks and in effect lend money to commercial
organizations when they pay in advance for subscriptions or services. 
Questions to ask vendors, as well as guidelines and
strategies to follow in assessing vendor financial viability, will be 
presented. Those attending should be in a better position to
avoid losing the library's money due to making uninformed decisions 
about vendor selection.

Speakers:

David St. Clair Goble, Associate Dean for Libraries, Central Piedmont 
Community College
Dan Tonkery, Vice President and Director of Business Development, EBSCO 
Information Services
Stephen Wilson, Managing Group Director, Coutts Information Services
Ltd.

Moderator: Daisy Waters, Assistant Acquisitions Librarian, E-Resources, 
State University of New York (SUNY) at Buffalo

Sponsor: ALCTS Serials Section (SS) Education Committee
Co-sponsors: ALCTS Acquisitions Section (AS) Education Committee and 
ALCTS Serials Section (SS) Acquisitions Committee

This program will benefit acquisitions, collection development, and 
serials librarians, as well as library administrators, publishers
and information vendors and all others in the library field interested 
in the financial viability of their library/institution.

Please join us!

~~ If you cannot attend our program, please see similar program below
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ASCLA-ICAN Program at ALA Annual Conference, Chicago 2005
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Evaluating Technology Vendors and Protecting Resources

Date: Saturday, June 25, 2005
Time: 1:30 pm - 3:30 pm
Location: McCormick Place Convention Center, Room S104

Evaluating Technology Vendors and Protecting Resources or "What happens 
when you prepay for a year of service in July and
your vendor goes under in August?"

Mr. Walton, currently a private college CFO, formerly an executive with 
an integrated library system vendor, discusses evaluating
the financial and technical health of library technology vendors 
including considerations and resources for evaluation of public and
privately held companies as well as looking at your vendor's technology 
and partnerships. Ms. Drew, from the state library agency
in Wisconsin, discusses using the procurement process and contracts to 
protect your organization, e.g., terms, length, payment
schedule, etc. Followed by Q & A.

Speakers: Robert Walton, CFO, College of Wooster; Sally Drew, Wisconsin
Dept. of Public Instruction.

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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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