ALA ANNUAL : ALCTS Publisher/Vendor/Library Relations Forum (PVLR)
Monday June 30th 8:30 AM - 10:00 AM LVCC-N263
PVLR Forums are always current and always offer perspectives from
libraries, vendors, and publishers on topics that apply to your work.
Please join us in Las Vegas on Monday June 30th, 8:30 - 10:00 AM at
LVCC-N263 for our latest panel:
A Textbook Case:
The Changing Textbook Ecosystem in Higher Education: New Opportunities,
New Perspectives
PVLR, the Publisher-Vendor-Library Interest Group of ALCTS, has put
together a stellar panel whose members will focus on intriguing and
enlightening perspectives about textbooks, possibly the one major area
of campus “content” which has normally been beyond library mandate. Now
some librarians have begun to take notice of textbooks. In doing so,
they join a community whose earliest members—students, professors,
publishers, and bookstores—have already experienced revolutionary
change. What has happened, and what is happening today, in this volatile
marketplace? Should libraries acquire, market, and even create
textbooks? How can libraries, publishers, and vendors share their
perspectives to gain a new understanding and ultimately provide better
access to textbooks— whether print or online, whether new or used, and
whether bought, sold, shared, rented, or free.
Again, please join us Monday June 30th 2014, 8:30 AM - 10:00 AM in room
LVCC-N263.
Our panel members are:
· Kris Lange (Ingram) will set the stage by describing how the ecosystem
of textbooks has changed since he, as a student, created BookFool and
now is engaged with Textbook Army, two online buyback sites for students
and bookstores.
· Franny Kelly (Wiley) will discuss how the textbook market looks today
from the standpoint of a major international publisher of online and
print textbooks.
· Cyril Oberlander (SUNY Geneseo) will describe a visionary project to
publish open access textbooks across the entire State University of New
York system.
· Chuck Hamaker (UNC Charlotte) will talk about how librarians can work
with bookstores while creating effective marketing strategies to help
faculty select and students access course readings in the library’s
eBook collection.
Also, please join us for a PVLR business meeting, where we will plan our
next Forum, for the 2015 ALA Midwinter Meeting in Chicago. Thanks to all
who responded to our survey on upcoming Forums, where we learned about
many areas of interest, from business practice ethics, to technical
services collaborations, to knowledge base records, to shelf-ready
issues, and more. All conference-goers are welcome to our meeting, with
no need for any membership or registration. We will meet Saturday, June
28, 2014, 4:30-5:30 PM, LVCC N228.
Co-chairs of PVLR:
Bob Nardini, Ingram
John Reese, Backstage Library Works
Lynn Wiley, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
John Reese, MLS
On-site Product Manager
Backstage Library Works
25 East 1700 South
Provo, UT 84606
801.356.1852 ext. 681
800.288.1265 ext. 681
jreese_at_bslw.com
Received on Fri Jun 13 2014 - 03:01:48 EDT