CDL: Publisher-Vendor-Library Relations IG - Call for Programs and for Co-Chairs

From: Bob Nardini <Bob.Nardini_at_proquest.com>

 PVLR Call for Programs and for Co-Chairs


Last month in San Francisco, at the Annual Conference of the American
Library Association, Publisher-Vendor-Library Relations IG, PVLR, carried
on a tradition that's now been going on for longer than most of us can
remember, that is,  to host a Monday morning "forum" at every ALA, winter
and summer, on a current topic of wide interest for publishers, vendors,
and librarians, the three groups who make up the PVLR community.

'PVLR' stands for Publisher-Vendor-Library-Relations, and we are an
'Interest Group' of ALCTS, an ALA division, the Association for Library
Collections & Technical Services.

Our topic this conference was the metadata supply chain for books, and
representatives from Springer, OCLC, the University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign, and the Library of Congress talked from their respective
viewpoints.  We had a substantial audience and terrific presenters,
speakers who clearly outlined how their own organizations play a role in
the interconnected sequence of steps that brings information about books
and library book holdings to readers.

The purpose of this message is to call for volunteers who want to help
carry on the PVLR tradition.  The three current co-chairs (names below) are
rotating off of that leadership role, per our ALCTS charter, and we need
new chairs.  We do have one individual who has agreed to take on the
co-chair role but he needs at least one more partner in crime. So, please
contact any of us if you would like to help lead this group.  The time
commitment is not at all onerous and we will gladly help you to get started.


Then, we need ideas for our next forum, at ALA Midwinter in Boston, January
2016.  So, please, anyone who receives this message is free to propose a
topic, whether or not you are interested in becoming a PVLR co-chair.

PVLR, in the past, has put on equally successful programs regarding, most
recently, ebooks, folowed by a forum on OA and other textbooks, and then a
session about  the sharing of information among competing vendors.  Forums
in the past have addressed many other topics, ranging from corporate
mergers, to inter-library loan, to approval plans, PDA Acquisitions to
electronic resource management.  So again, please contact any of us listed
below with your ideas.

Thanks, from PVLR Co-chairs,

Bob Nardini, ProQuest, bob.nardini_at_proquest.com

John Reese, Backstage Library Works, jreese_at_bslw.com

Lynn Wiley, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, lnwiley_at_illinois.edu