From:
"Julia M. Gelfand" <jgelfand_at_uci.edu>
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LAST CALL* - *The deadline for submitting proposals to the IFLA Open
Session for the Acquisitions and Collection Development Section is now
Feb 15th.* Please excuse cross-posting.
Conference Theme: Future Libraries: Infinite Possibilities
http://www.ifla.org/acquisition-collection-development
The Section's 2 hour Open Session is: *Collaboration in Collections:
Libraries, Users and Information Providers *
Building and maintaining relevant collections requires innovation in
these challenging times as libraries establish a greater digital
footprint and explore different channels of scholarly communication and
information delivery. Working together with publishers and vendors to
find ways to meet the diverse expectations and needs of library users
demands new models of communication, programming, organizational
infrastructure, reliance on multiple and changing technologies, and
accompanying services. This Open Session will emphasize how innovation
and collaboration within libraries, among users and with the publishing
and provider community will advance the role of collections.
Suggested sub-themes, with a focus on innovation and best practices for
potential speakers to consider:
* Responding to users' expectations -- how & when
* Role of Open Access
* Impact of eResources -- challenges with acquisitions, licensing,
pricing, perpetuity, use
* Cooperative collection development
* Resource relevance
* Relationships with information providers
* Collection assessment
* Selection and de-selection
* Discovery of collections
* Promoting collections
The section invites speakers from all library environments (academic,
public, government, school, special) who can address any of these themes
in a 15 minute presentation at the WLIC meeting. The goal is to create
a diverse program of 4-5 speakers representing libraries from different
parts of the world who have different experiences to share. Proposed
papers must be original and not have been published elsewhere. It is
hoped that all presenters will be able to prepare a formal paper, as
well as a PowerPoint presentation, however IFLA realizes that it may be
impractical to require that every speaker prepare a formal paper and
PowerPoint slides. If that is the case, those speakers must prepare a
substantial abstract, including references with URLs and bibliographies
to accompany their presentation. All selected papers will have
abstracts and links to full papers on the conference website.
Presentations can be made in any of the official IFLA languages: Arabic,
Chinese, English, French, German, Spanish, Russian, but an accompanying
translation of all papers into English must be provided.
*Important Dates with which to comply:*
*15 February 2013* -- Deadline for submitting 300 word proposals for
papers and presentations, or substantial abstracts of 500 words if no
paper will be prepared, plus a very brief biographical statement of
speaker(s). Information should include: title of presentation;
subthemes that it addresses, abstract, all authors, noting likely
presenter; institutional affiliations; contact information, including
all eMail addresses
*28 February 2013* -- Announcement of final program and communication
with all who submit proposals. IFLA HQ notified of outcome from call.
*1 May 2013* -- Deadline for submission of final paper. Papers should
be no more than 3,000 words and papers can be submitted in any of the
official IFLA languages: Arabic, Chinese, Chinese, French, German,
Spanish, Russian, but an accompanying translation of all papers into
English must be provided. Attempts will be made to provide translations
into other official languages.
*30 June 2013* -- Deadline for all PowerPoint presentations from Speakers
*June/July 2013* -- All speakers will be notified of the time of the
program.
All proposals will be reviewed by a jury composed of members of the
Acquisitions and Collection Development Section.
Please note that unfortunately, there are no funds to assist with your
attendance at WLIC 2013. Please also note that in accordance with
IFLA's Open Access Statement, all papers that are presented at the WLIC
2013 should be available under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 license.
All submissions and any questions should be sent to be sent via eMail in
a MS Word attachment to Julia Gelfand (jgelfand_at_uci.edu
<http://webmail1e.orange.fr/webmail/fr_FR/read.html?FOLDER=SF_INBOX&IDMSG=28797&check=&SORTBY=1#>)
by 31 January 2013. The receipt of all submissions will be acknowledged.
Received on Tue Feb 12 2013 - 03:06:51 EST