ALCTS Web Course: Fundamentals of Acquisitions
Next session: March 11 -- April 5, 2013
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.
Who Should Attend: As a fundamentals course, FOA is tailored for
librarians and paraprofessionals new to the acquisitions field, in all
types and sizes of libraries. Although many formats and types of
materials are discussed, FOA focuses on the acquisition of monographs in
a physical format. Although FOA focuses on physical book acquisitions,
the structural components of the course---goals and methods of
acquisitions, vendor relations, financial management, and
ethics---constitute the key components of acquisition and licensing
processes for all library materials, in all formats, in all types of
libraries.
This course is one-third of the Collection Management Elective course
approved by the Library Support Staff Certification Program (LSSCP).
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
<mailto:registration_at_ala.org>. For all other questions or comments
related to web courses, contact Julie Reese, ALCTS Events Manager at
1-800-545-2433, ext. 5034 or alctsce_at_ala.org <mailto:alctsce_at_ala.org>.
Posted on behalf of the ALCTS Continuing Education Committee.
Received on Wed Feb 06 2013 - 03:03:50 EST