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"Spidal, Debra" <dspidal_at_wsu.edu>
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*Looking Ahead: Research Topics in Acquisitions & Collection Development*
August 16-17, 2011
Hosted by Members of the ALCTS Acquisitions Section Research &
Statistics Committee: Jill Emery, Charles Hillen, Yumin Jiang, Rebecca
Schroeder, and Tammy Sugarman
Please join us for an e-forum discussion. It's free and open to everyone!
Registration information is at the end of the message.
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*Description
*In the quickly shifting landscapes of Acquisitions and Collection
Development, it can be difficult to identify and develop viable research
topics that lend themselves to meaningful exploration and conclusion.
There are myriad factors that affect decision-making, analysis, and
budget management, and every library environment has local
idiosyncrasies. Some issues stem from business models that are not fully
mature, such as those that exist for demand-driven acquisition. Others
arise as we wait to understand the full impact of developing
technologies, such as electronic resource management systems. These two
examples are by no means the only ones. In this e-forum, we'd like to
hear from you and discuss which acquisitions and/or collection
development issues need further research. What barriers prevent you from
settling on a research topic? What research challenges, besides time, do
you face?
*Jill Emery *is the Collection Development Librarian at Portland State
University. She is Past-President of the North American Serials Interest
Group, the social media coordinator for Electronic Resources &
Libraries, LLC., and a past chair of the ALCTS Continuing Resources
Section. She is also the current column editor of Heard on the Net for
The Charleston Advisor.
*Charles Hillen*, current chair of the ALCTS-AS Research & Statistics
Committee, is the Head of Acquisitions & Serials at Loyola Marymount
University. In prior positions, Charles was the Head of Acquisitions at
the Getty Research Institute and, at Old Dominion University, held
positions as Lead Cataloger and supervisor of the Diehn Composers Room.
Charles holds bachelor's and master's degrees in music performance from
the University of Cincinnati, College-Conservatory of Music and an MSIS
from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville where he served a three-year
appointment on the School of Information Sciences Advisory Board.
*Yumin Jiang *has been the Technical Services Librarian at the
University of Colorado Law Library since 2003. Prior to moving to
Colorado, she worked as the Serials and Electronic Resources Librarian
at the Health Sciences Library System at the University of Pittsburgh,
and as Cataloging Librarian for Serials and Electronic Resources at
Cornell University's Albert R. Mann Library. Yumin has been actively
involved in several professional organizations such as AALL, ALCTS,
CONSER, and NASIG. She has a Bachelor's degree from Peking University
in China, MA in Agricultural Economics from University of
Wisconsin-Madison, and MS in Library and Information Science from the
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
*Rebecca Schroeder *is the Acquisitions librarian at the Harold B. Lee
Library at Brigham Young University. She received her MLS from the
University of North Texas. She is a member of ALA and active in the
Acquisitions Section of ALCTS. She also serves on the Utah Library
Association board as chair of the New Perspectives Round Table.
*Tammy Sugarman *is Associate Dean for Collections at Georgia State
University Library, Atlanta, GA, where she oversees cataloging,
acquisitions, collection development and the institutional repository.
She is currently chair of the AS Publications Committee. Recent
scholarship includes an article in the Journal of Academic
Librarianship, "Academic Librarians, Professional Literature, and New
Technologies: A Survey" and presentations, "Evaluating Usage of Non-Text
Resources: What the COUNTER Statistics Don't Tell You" and "Expanding
the Ebooks Buying Experience: Approval Plans". She holds a MS in
Information (University of Michigan), a MA in History (The Citadel) and
a BA in History (Boston University).
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Posted on behalf of the ALCTS Continuing Education Committee
Received on Tue Aug 09 2011 - 03:01:21 EDT