UNC's Janet Flowers Retires as Acquisitions Head

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Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2008 13:28:29 -0400 (EDT)
From:  Judith Panitch  (UNC-Chapel Hill) <panitch_at_email.unc.edu>
Subject: UNC's Janet Flowers Retires as Acquisitions Head

April 25, 2008
JANET FLOWERS RETIRES AS HEAD OF ACQUISITIONS
Worked 38 years at UNC Library
http://www.lib.unc.edu/spotlight/media/2008/flowers.html
Photo: http://www.lib.unc.edu/spotlight/media/images/flowers_janet.jpg

	CHAPEL HILL - Janet L. Flowers retired April 1, 2008, as Head of
Acquisitions at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Library on
the anniversary of her 38th year of employment with the Library.

	Flowers graduated from UNC with a B.A. in French in 1966, and an
M.S.L.S. in 1967, and was inducted into the Beta Phi Mu, Epsilon Chapter.
Her first professional position was as a reference librarian at Wake
Forest University in Winston-Salem, N.C. She came to UNC as Romance
Languages Cataloger in 1970, becoming Assistant Head, then Head, of
Bibliographic Searching before her appointment as Head of Acquisitions in
1982. 

	During her career, Flowers was a regular participant in and
pre-conference leader on topics related to acquisitions management and
vendor negotiations at the annual Charleston Conference for Issues in Book
and Serial Acquisition. She also was active in the North Carolina Serials
Conference, where she made a number of presentations. She published widely
on topics related to general management and management of the acquisitions
process. Her article, "Operational Efficiencies in Acquisitions to
Minimize the Impact of Budget Cuts upon Library Materials Budgets" (The
Bottom Line, 2003) won the "Highly Commended" award from the Literati Club
in 2004. Her other articles include "Ethics within the Serials Family"
(Library Collections, Acquisitions & Technical Services, 2002) and
"Negotiations with Library Materials Vendors: Preparation and Tips" (The
Bottom Line, 2003). As a personal interest, Flowers authored "Starting a
Church/Synagogue Library" (North Carolina Libraries, 1987). 

	A member of the American Library Association and the Association
of Library Collections and Technical Services, Flowers served most
recently on ALCTS's Education Committee (2001-03) and Technology Committee
(1996-2000). She was also Co-Chair of the ALCTS Vendors of Library
Materials Discussion Group (2001-02) and most recently presented the paper
"Managing the Acquisitions Workflow of Monographs" to that group in 2006.
As a member of the North Carolina Library Association, she chaired its
Library Administration and Management Section (1992-94) and also served
two terms on the NCLA Executive Board (1992-94 and 1995-97).

	At UNC, Flowers was an elected member of the University's Faculty
Council (1981-84 and 1988-91) and served on the University of North
Carolina Faculty Assembly (1982-85), with representatives from all
campuses in the UNC system. She was president (1978-79) of the Librarians'
Association at UNC-Chapel Hill and served on several LAUNC-CH committees.
She was a member of the Carolina Academic Library Associates Steering
Committee and was a member of the steering committee overseeing a
reorganization, now in process, of the Library's technical services
operations. Flowers lectured frequently for the Collection Management
classes at UNC's School of Information and Library Science and was also
president (1982-83) of the SILS Alumni Association. Over the years,
Flowers mentored many SILS students on matters relating to management and
acquisitions challenges.

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Judith Panitch
Director of Library Communications
University Library
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
CB# 3900, Davis Library
Chapel Hill, NC 27514

Tel:	(919) 962-1301
Fax:	(919) 843-8936
E-mail:	panitch_at_email.unc.edu
http://www.lib.unc.edu


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