From: Nancy Slight-Gibney <nsg_at_OREGON.UOREGON.EDU>
-Pardon the duplication-
CALL FOR PAPERS
The Acquisitions Institute at Timberline Lodge
(Saturday, May 18, through Tuesday, May 21, 2002)
The planning committee is open to presentations on all aspects of library
acquisitions and collection management. Presenters are encouraged to engage the
audience
in discussion. Possible topics include:
Organization for collection development
Role of consortia in collection development
Tools for financial management
Education and training for collection development
Economics of scholarly publishing
Publishing, pricing and distributing electronic journals
Electronic books: content, access, cataloging
External forces driving a library's collection management decisions
Problems of (and solutions for) managing electronic resources
Send an abstract of 200 words or less by December 3, 2001, to:
Richard Brumley
Head, Collection Development Department
Oregon State University Libraries
Corvallis, OR 97331-4501
Richard.Brumley_at_orst.edu
Voice: (541) 737-2118
Fax: (541) 737-8267
For more information, see the Institute's web site at:
http://libweb.uoregon.edu/acqdept/institute/home.html
Received on Mon Oct 22 2001 - 08:09:06 EDT