Subject: Call for speakers for ALA Annual 2011 - Planning for change in
Acquisitions
From: "Morrow, Janet" <J.Morrow_at_neu.edu>
Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2010 14:23:22 -0500
The ALCTS/Acquisitions Section Organization & Management Committee seeks
panelists for the ALA Annual Conference in New Orleans. The Program is
on Saturday, June 25th at 8:00 a.m. – 10:00 a.m. The topic of the
program is “The Future of Acquisitions: planning for change in an
ever-changing environment.”
We’d like 3 panelists who can address various aspects of planning for
change in Acquisitions including: leveraging existing skill sets to take
on new duties perhaps from other areas of the library; positioning the
department to be proactive instead of reactive to change in the
organization; repositioning staff as their existing duties are automated
or determined to be “no longer a priority.” We’re very interested in a
public library point of view as well as the view from academia.
If you are in the midst of a reorganization or retraining or if you have
recently taken on new duties or merged with another area to achieve
efficiencies, please consider sharing your experiences, lessons learned,
or future plans.
Proposals should include a brief outline of the type of change in which
your Acquisitions Department has been involved and what you would plan
to cover in your talk. The individual panelists will have 20 minutes
each to speak. Please also send the speaker’s contact information and
affiliation, including e-mail and a phone number. Proposals should be
sent to Janet Morrow at j.morrow_at_neu.edu . If you know of someone who
would be able to speak well to this topic, we’d appreciate your sharing
this information with them.
Please send proposals by December 15, 2010.
Janet Belanger Morrow
Head, Resource Management Dept.
Northeastern University Libraries
360 Huntington Avenue
260 Snell Library
Boston, MA 02115
voice: 617-373-4959 fax: 617-373-8396
j.morrow_at_neu.edu
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