Subject: ALCTS - PVLR Forum - Innovation by Necessity Panel Program
From: Beth R Bernhardt BRBERNHA <Beth_Bernhardt_at_uncg.edu>
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 2010 15:32:21 -0500
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ALCTS – PVLR Forum
Monday, January 18, 2010, 8-10 am
Boston Convention & Exhibition Center, Room 157C
Innovation By Necessity: The economy is not bringing good news these
days, but there can be interesting outcomes when organizations are
pushed out of their routine procedures and workflows. Throughout the
library materials supply chain, we’re providing content and services
that we’ve always provided, but in new and different ways.
Speakers:
Beth Bernhardt/UNC-Greensboro: Maintaining traditional collection
development, but also pursuing patron-driven purchasing of eBooks via
MyiLibrary, Rittenhouse's R2 and other platforms.
Lindsey Schell/University of Texas-Austin: UT Austin is exploring
options for increasing the universe of available content for our patrons
while simultaneously trimming collections budgets. We are doing this
through a series of initiatives such as a Pay-per-view eBook program
with EBL, developing a patron-driven print approval plan and adjusting
technical services workflows to accommodate for decreased staffing and
eliminate unnecessary tasks.
Judy Luther/Informed Strategies: The university presses at NYU, Rutgers,
Temple and Penn have received a grant from the Mellon Foundation and
have engaged three consultants as a team to evaluate the potential for a
collaborative business model and a branded consortium to sell university
presses eBooks. The growing demand for eBooks and market changes are
prompting the presses to assess options for a sustainable plan that will
serve the changing needs of libraries and researchers.
Hester Campbell/YBP: How are vendors changing in response to changes
happening at their suppliers and customers? As the economy tightens, how
does publisher retooling impose change on vendors? On the other side of
the equation, as libraries deal with repurposing staff and shifting
their acquisitions dollars from print to E, how does that bring change
to their vendors? In the middle, vendors seek to continue to provide
efficient and valuable services for their publisher partners and library
customers.
And then we want to hear from you – we hope that these presentations
will generate questions for our speakers, but also discussion from you
about the kinds of supply-chain/materials acquisitions changes you’re
facing in your organizations.
PVLR will also hold its regular planning meeting Saturday afternoon,
4-5:30 pm, at the Convention Center, Room 206B. Please come prepared to
discuss a couple of the most important issues facing your organization
(in terms of creating, selling, or acquiring library materials), and
we’ll sort out a topic for the Annual meeting in DC.
Ann-Marie Breaux (Chair, PVLR)
Vice President, Academic Service Integration
YBP Library Services
Phone/fax: (678) 445-5720 vmail: (800) 258-3774 x3504
e-mail: abreaux_at_ybp.com
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