Subject: Fundamentals of Acquisitions webcourse - registration information
From: pbluh_at_umaryland.edu
Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2010 22:37:50 -0400 (EDT)
*March 29 - April 23, 2010*
Fee: $109 ALCTS Members; $129 Non-members
Registration Deadline: March
24, 2010
Register Online [1] | Register by Mail [2]
The Fundamentals of Acquisitions (FOA) web course focuses on the
library acquisitions basics:
* goals and methods of acquiring monographs and serials
* financial management of library collections budgets
* relationships among acquisitions librarians, library
booksellers,
subscription agents, and
publishers.
This course provides a broad overview of the operations involved in
acquiring materials after the selection decision is made.
In FOA, we distinguish between collection development, which involves
the selection of materials for the library; and acquisitions, which
orders, receives, and pays for those materials. In many libraries,
selecting and acquiring materials may be done in the same
department—in the smallest libraries perhaps even by the same
person. In larger libraries, selection may be done by a collection
development department and/or designated subject specialists, while a
separate department acquires the selected materials. Acquisitions, in
essence, is the business side of bringing materials into the library or
licensing access to library resources.
As a “fundamentals” course, FOA is tailored for
librarians and
paraprofessionals new to the acquisitions field, in all types and
sizes of libraries. Although many formats and types of materials are
discussed, FOA focuses on the acquisition of monographs in a physical
format. Although FOA focuses on physical book acquisitions, the structural
components of the course—goals and methods of acquisitions, vendor
relations, financial management, and
ethics—constitute the key components of acquisition and licensing
processes for all library materials, in all formats, in all types of
libraries.
Instructors: Betsy Redman and Eleanor Cook
Length of web course: 4 weeks
For additional details and registration information see the ALCTS Web
Site:
http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/alcts/confevents/upcoming/webcourse/foa/index.cfm
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Pamela Bluh
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_at_umaryland.edu
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