patron-driven acquisitions

[This is a stretch. --ELM]

If the discussion of "next-generation library catalogs" includes discussions of the content of a "catalog", then the following announcement of a symposium on Patron-Driven Acquisitions may be apropos: 

  The Hesburgh Libraries at the University of Notre Dame is
  sponsoring a symposium on the topic of patron-driven
  acquisitions:
  
   * Who - Anybody and everybody is invited
   * What - A symposium
   * When - Monday, May 21, 2012 from 9 o'clock
     to 1 o'clock, then lunch (included), and
     then informal roundtable discussions
   * Where - Hesburgh Library Auditorium, University
     of Notre Dame
   * Cost - free
  
  Titles of presentations and presenters include:
  
   * Acquisitions and User Services: responsive and responsible
     ways to build the collection (Lynn Wiley, University of
     Illinois Urbana-Champagne)
  
   * Demand Driven Acquisitions: University of Notre Dame
     Experience (Fall 2011 – Spring 2012) (Laura A. Sill and Natasha
     Lyandres, University of Notre Dame)
  
   * Silent Partners in Collection Development: Patron-Driven
     Acquisitions at Purdue (Judith M. Nixon, Robert S. Freeman, and
     Suzanne M. Ward, Purdue University)
  
   * The Long Tail of PDA (Dracine Hodges, Ohio State University)
  
  After lunch and given enough interest, there will also be a
  facilitation of roundtable discussions on the topic of the day.
  
  To register, simply send your name to Eric Lease Morgan
  <emorgan_at_nd.edu>, and you will be registered. Easy! For more
  detail, see:
  
   http://blogs.nd.edu/emorgan/2012/03/pda/


Everybody is welcome, and the more the merrier.

-- 
Eric Lease Morgan, Digital Projects Librarian
Hesburgh Libraries, University of Notre Dame

(574) 631-8604

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