ALA/ALCTS Committee Meeting Announcement

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Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2005
From: Jina Wakimoto (Cal. State Univ., Northridge)
<jina.wakimoto_at_CSUN.EDU>
Subject: ALA/ALCTS Committee Meeting Announcement


This is a corrected posting of an earlier one with permission from the
author.
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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 Interest 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
Outoging Chair, ALCTS Serials Section Acquisitions Committee
librsds_at_hofstra.edu

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