ACQflash: ALCTS CMDS DG on Academic Libraries 2009 ALA MW Meeting, Jan 24, 2009

Subject: ALCTS CMDS DG on Academic Libraries 2009 ALA MW Meeting, Jan 
24, 2009
From: "Julia M. Gelfand" <jgelfand_at_uci.edu>
Date: Tue, 06 Jan 2009 20:21:14 -0800

The ALCTS CMDS Interest/Discussion Group on Collection Development in 
Academic Libraries, in conjunction with the ALCTS CMDS Collection 
Development. & Electronic Resources Committee will meet at the 2009 ALA 
Midwinter Meeting:

    * Saturday, January 24, 2009 from 1:30-3:00
    * Curtis Hotel, Peek-a-Boo Room (that is for real!)

This year, we will try something a bit different, not only will we 
co-sponsor this session, but we will try and emulate the best traditions 
of the Charleston Conference on Book and Serial Acquisitions.  The 
success of that conference is the open dialog and focus on specific 
themes.  We have selected four topics related to important challenges 
academic libraries have in managing electronic resources and have four 
colleagues who will facilitate these discussions and raise some key 
issues shared at the many programs at Charleston to keep this dialog 
moving, relevant and full of the usual helpful hints and contrary 
opinion that we can all learn from!  We expect this to be a fast-paced, 
enthusiastic session with time to report back for the benefit of the 
group.  It may be helpful to review the 2008 Charleston program  - many 
of the notes and powerpoint slides are available at 
http://www.katina.info/d/presentations

The four topics we selected are:

   1. Usage Statistics - Are we drowning in data: - institutional 
practices in using & interpreting the numbers - led by Feng Shan, 
Indiana University, South Bend
   2. Usage Statistics - Interpreting differences between consortial 
data and individual library data - led by Andrea Imre, Southern Illinois 
University
   3. eBooks - The utility of different kinds of packages - by subject, 
publisher, aggregators, access in approval plans - any messages to be 
sent to publishers and providers? - led by Brian Quinn, Texas Tech 
University
   4. eBooks - Issues related to use - concurrent access, ILL, Library 
Reserves, as textbooks, fiction vs non-fiction, etc. -  led by David 
Feinmark, Washburn University

There are still chances to volunteer as we need recorders for each sessions.

We look forward to seeing everyone in Denver.  Please share this message 
widely with colleagues or on other lists as you deem appropriate.

Julia Gelfand
University of California, Irvine Libraries
Chair, CMDS Collection Development in Academic Libraries Interest Group 
for 2009
jgelfand_at_uci.edu
949-824-4971

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