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Subject ALCTS Web Course: Fundamentals of Acquisitions (July 30 - August 24, 2012)
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ALCTS Web Course: Fundamentals of Acquisitions
Next session: July 30 - August 24, 2012
This is a four-week online course that focuses on the basics of library
acquisitions:
- goals and methods of acquiring monographs and serials
- financial management of library collections budgets
- relationships among acquisitions librarians, library booksellers, subscription
agents, and publishers.
This course provides a broad overview of the operations involved in acquiring
materials after the selection decision is made.
In FOA, we distinguish between collection development, which involves the
selection of materials for the library; and acquisitions, which orders,
receives, and pays for those materials. In many libraries, selecting and
acquiring materials may be done in the same department—in the smallest libraries
perhaps even by the same person. In larger libraries, selection may be done by a
collection development department and/or designated subject specialists, while a
separate department acquires the selected materials. Acquisitions, in essence,
is the business side of bringing materials into the library or licensing access
to library resources.
This course is one-third of the Collection Management Elective course approved
by the Library Support Staff Certification Program (LSSCP). Collection
Management Elective FAQ
Registration Fees: $109 ALCTS Member and $129 Non-member
For additional details, registration links, and contact information see:
http://www.ala.org/alcts/confevents/upcoming/webcourse/foa/ol_templ
For questions about registration, contact ALA Registration by calling
1-800-545-2433 and press 5 or email registration_at_ala.org. For all other
questions or comments related to this web course, contact Julie Reese, ALCTS
Events Manager at 1-800-545-2433, ext. 5034 or alctsce_at_ala.org.
Posted on behalf of the ALCTS Continuing Education Committee.
Received on Fri Jun 29 2012 - 03:01:05 EDT