From: "June K. Schmidt" <JSchmidt_at_library.msstate.edu>
The Collection Development Librarians of Academic Libraries Discussion
Group will meet on Saturday, June 24th, 1:30-3:30 in the Napoleon
Ballroom B3 of the Sheraton New Orleans.
Facilitators and recorders are being sought for six discussion groups.
If you are interested in serving in either capacity please let me know
as soon as possible. Facilitators are expected to develop a list of
questions for discussion. Recorders will take notes of the discussion
and send them to me no later than one week following conference.
The following discussion topics have been suggested, but if you have
another topic you would like to facilitate, please contact me. Thanks!
Hope to see everyone in New Orleans!
1. Building a great collection management website
2. Collection development for institutional repositories. [Brian Quinn
will serve as facilitator. Still seeking a recorder.]
3.Budgeting for collection development in the era of vendor deals and
special offers that tend to derail planning
4. Grants for collection development. Where are they? How do you get
them?
5. Faculty endorsement of Open Access journals - how do you get it?
6. Doing consulting work in collection development
7. Strategies for promoting the collection
8. Triage in collection development
9. Electronic resource management tools
10. Conversion of ILL requests to rush orders - implications for
selectors
11. Alternatives to licenses
12. Consortial building of a trusted print archive
June Schmidt
Associate Dean for Technical Services
Mitchell Memorial Library
P.O. Box 5408
Mississippi State, MS 39762
662-325-7672
Received on Thu May 04 2006 - 01:17:30 EDT