From: Steve Bosch <sbosch_at_bird.library.arizona.edu>
CALL FOR PAPERS:
CREATING NEW STRATEGIES FOR COOPERATIVE
COLLECTION DEVELOPMENT
A major collection development conference devoted to NEW STRATEGIES will be
held November 12-14, 1999 at the Aberdeen Woods Conference Center in
Atlanta, Georgia, and will be sponsored by CRL, ARL, CLIR, RLG and ICOLC as
part of a 50 year anniversary celebration for the Center for Research
Libraries, which operates the nation's oldest Cooperative Research Library.
The conference goal is to formulate an agenda for the community to begin
to design and implement new strategies for cooperative collection development.
SPEAKERS: Myles Brand, President of Indiana University, is the Keynote
Speaker,
Jeff Groscost, Speaker of the House, Arizona House of Representatives,
Paul J. Kobulnicky, Vice-Chancellor for Information Services and University
Librarian at the
University of Connecticut,
Dr. Tom Shippey, Chair, English Department, University of St. Louis,
David Shulenburger, the Provost of the University of Kansas,
Gary Strong, Director of the Queens Public Library.
On Saturday morning, several speakers, during a session called NOT THE
CHOIR (NECESSARILY), will give positive, critical perspectives from just
outside of the collection development arena but within a context that
impacts the building of library collections.
The Conference itself will be divided into three overlapping investigations:
I: Assessing the Situation: Looking at cultural, commercial and political
issues, such as volume count fixations (quantity vs. quality), faculty and
commercial resistance to reforming scholarly communications, publishing
monopolies, look-alike research collections, traditional campus cultural
impediments, and how some groups have been able to manage them.
II: Identifying New Opportunities: How do we build on our traditional
cooperative models (large scale centralized like CRL, large scale
distributed like. ARL/AAU, and regional like ICOLC) to advance new
approaches in areas such as archiving, preservation, and digitization?
What are the characteristics of successful programs? What case
studies/models provide insight? How have they built on lessons from the
past? What enabling technologies can assist us? What achievable benefits
are appropriate to strive for in the current environment?
III: Eliminating Borders: What are the implications/opportunities
presented to cooperative collection development by the growing unimportance
of national borders and other geographical restraints? Can technologies
provide new forums for cooperation? Can we grow new partnerships? How?
If you are interested in writing a paper for this conference, please send a
note of intent and a short abstract of your thesis (by e-mail, fax or
letter) to:
Milton T. Wolf
Senior Vice President for Collection Programs
The Center for Research Libraries
6050 South Kenwood Avenue
Chicago, Illinois 60637-2804
TEL: (773) 955-4545 EXT. 334
FAX: (773) 955-4339
INTERNET: wolf_at_crlmail.uchicago.edu
Final deadline for papers that are accepted is July 1, 1999.
Papers accepted will be made available online to conference attendees one
month
prior to the conference. Selected papers will be orally presented by the
author(s) at the conference in abstract form and a moderated panel
discussion of the author(s)' ideas will be convened. All final papers must
be presented in electronic format. Selected papers will be published
afterwards
as a Conference Proceedings.
Milton T. Wolf
Senior Vice President for Collection Programs
The Center for Research Libraries
6050 South Kenwood Avenue
Chicago, Illinois 60637-2804
TEL: (773) 955-4545 EXT. 334
FAX: (773) 955-4339
INTERNET: wolf_at_crlmail.uchicago.edu
http://wwwcrl.uchicago.edu
Received on Wed Apr 28 1999 - 09:57:14 EDT