From: Nancy Slight-Gibney <nsg_at_uoregon.edu>
THE ACQUISITIONS INSTITUTE AT TIMBERLINE LODGE
5th Annual Conference
Saturday, May 15 through Tuesday, May 18, 2004
CALL FOR PAPERS
WHAT IS The Acquisitions Institute?
* The pre-eminent Western North America conference on acquisitions
and collection development, now in its fifth year at Timberline Lodge.
* A small, informal and stimulating gathering in a convivial and
glorious Northwestern setting.
* A three-day conference focusing on the methods and madness of
building and managing library collections.
* See The Acquisitions Institute home page
(http://libweb.uoregon.edu/events/aitl/) for more information.
WHAT TOPICS are we looking for?
* 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. Panel discussions are
well received. The planning committee may wish to bring individual
proposals together to form panels. The committee is especially looking
for submissions on the following topics:
* Operations management of acquisitions or collection development
* Organization for collection development
* Role of consortia in collection development
* Financial management, accounting practices, and audits
* Integrated library systems as management information systems
* Personnel issues and strategies for change
* Staff training
* Recruiting and retaining technical services and collection
development librarians
* Changing roles of book vendors and subscription agents
* Vendor selection and assessment
* 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
WHAT IS THE DEADLINE for submitting a proposal?
* December 1, 2003
HOW do I submit a proposal?
* Send an abstract of 200 words or less 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) 737-826
Received on Mon Oct 20 2003 - 12:36:16 EDT