ACQflash: Early Bird Announcement - ALCTS Midwinter Symposia

EARLY BIRD ANNOUNCEMENT – SAVE THE DATE – THURSDAY, JANUARY 22, 2009

The Association for Library Collections & Technical Services (ALCTS) 
announces a midwinter symposium – IMPLEMENTING AN INSTITUTIONAL REPOSITORY: 
BENEFITS AND CHALLENGES on Thursday, January 22, 2009 in Denver, Colorado 

Has your institution begun to develop, or is it considering developing, an 
institutional repository? If so, will there be a role for the library? 
Whether you answered ‘yes’ or ‘no’ to this question, please join us to 
consider the challenges, pitfalls and promises of establishing and 
supporting an institutional repository.  An outstanding panel of presenters 
will discuss the legal and access issues as well as various IR platforms and 
models that will provide attendees with the means to make informed decisions 
regarding the introduction of an institutional repository.  

Speakers: 

Greg Tananbaum, 
Consulting Services at the Intersection of Technology, Content & Academia
Opening and Closing presentations

Georgia Harper
Scholarly Communications Advisor
University of Texas at Austin Libraries

Leah Vanderjagt
Digital Repository Services Librarian
University of Alberta Libraries 

Marilyn Billings
Scholarly Communication & Special Initiatives Librarian
University of Massachusetts, Amherst

Jessica Branco Colati
Colorado Alliance of Research Libraries
Project Director, Alliance Digital Repository

Bob Gerrity
Director of Library Systems
Boston College Libraries

Robert Tansley
Engineer
Google, Inc.

ALCTS thanks bepress for their generous support of this event.

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On Friday, January 23 ALCTS will offer “Breaking Down the Silos: Planning 
for Discovery in Library 2.0" a midwinter symposium designed to help 
libraries evaluate options among a new generation of library catalogs, 
federated search engines and link resolvers.  Bob Wolven, Associate 
University Librarian for Bibliographic Services and Collection Development 
at Columbia University, will deliver the keynote address.  Speakers include 
Roy Tennant (OCLC), Marshall Breeding (Vanderbilt University), Jill Grog 
(University of Alabama) and Rob McGee (RMG Consultants).  Panel 
presentations by Don Barlow (Westerville Public Library), John Meador (SUNY 
Binghamton), David Lee King (Topeka and Shawnee County Public Library), and 
Jennifer Bowen (University of Rochester) round out the program.  

Attend both symposia and take advantage of special registration rates.  
Watch for details in September.   

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Pamela Bluh

Past President, Association for Library Collections & Technical Services 
(ALCTS) a division of the American Library Association

and

Associate Director for Technical 
Services & Administration
Thurgood Marshall Law Library
University of Maryland
School of Law
501 West Fayette Street
Baltimore, MD 21201-1768

410-706-2736
410-706-2372 FAX
pbluh@umaryland.edu