Great Lakes E-Summit
October 11-12, 2012
Wright State University's Nutter Center
Dayton, Ohio
Register now for the *Great Lakes E-Summit*, a regional conference
focused on *electronic resources*!
The "Summit" is your opportunity to engage your peers and learn from
the experts in an intimate discussion-friendly setting. This year the
conference's first day will focus on the topic of tools and techniques
for decision making. The day will lead off with a keynote by usage
statistics guru, Oliver Pesch of EBSCO. Following the keynote will be
programs featuring tools to facilitate selection decisions, techniques
for gathering and analyzing usage statistics, an exercise on
establishing a usage statistics gathering workflow, tips for working
with selectors, a system for disseminating usage statistics and
engaging college deans to support buy-in in the decision making process
and more. The day will conclude with an open forum where attendees will
have an opportunity to share their experiences, learn from others'
stumbles and successes, and ask those perplexing usage statistics
questions from one of the foremost leaders in the field.
Following in the tradition of our inaugural conference's hugely popular
Panel of Regional Experts, day two of the Summit will feature an
engaging and informative discussion with a Panel of Industry Experts
from the publishing, vendor, consultant, and library sectors. Please
join us for what is sure to be a lively, informative, and motivating
discussion with Bob Boissy, Manager of Account Development & Strategic
Alliances at Springer, Katy Ginanni, Collection Development Librarian
for Western Carolina University, Kittie Henderson, Director of Academic
and Law Divisions at EBSCO, and Dan Tonkery, President and founder of
Content Strategies. Of note, the panel includes the current and two
former presidents of the North American Serials Interest Group (NASIG),
an independent organization that promotes communication and sharing of
ideas among all members of the serials information chain.
For more information including program, venue, travel, hotel, and
speaker information, check out our website at:
http://greatlakese-summit.blogspot.com/
Questions? Email us at: GreatLakesSummit_at_gmail.com
To register for the conference go to:
http://greatlakese-summit.blogspot.com/p/registration.html
Last day to register is October 5.
Hope to see you at the Summit!
Received on Fri Sep 21 2012 - 08:27:48 EDT