Call for Papers - Acquisitions Institute at Timberline Lodge Emily McElroy 17 Sep 2004 20:03 UTC
****Please excuse the cross-posting**** The Acquisitions Institute at Timberline Lodge Saturday, May 15 through Tuesday, May 18, 2004 Timberline Lodge One hour east of Portland, Oregon on the slope of Mt. Hood Call for Papers What is The Acquisitions Institute? * The pre-eminent Western North America conference on acquisitions and collection development, now in its fifth year at Timberline Lodge. * A small, informal and stimulating gathering in a convivial and glorious Northwestern setting. * A three-day conference focusing on the methods and madness of building and managing library collections. * See The Acquisitions Institute at Timberline Lodge for more information @ http://libweb.uoregon.edu/events/aitl/ Topics are we looking for? * The planning committee is open to presentations on all aspects of library acquisitions and collection management. Presenters are encouraged to engage the audience in discussion. Panel discussions are well received. The planning committee may wish to bring individual proposals together to form panels. The committee is especially looking for submissions on the following topics: * Operations management of acquisitions or collection development * Organization for collection development * Role of consortia in collection development * Financial management, accounting practices, and audits * Integrated library systems as management information systems * Personnel issues and strategies for change * Staff training * Recruiting and retaining technical services and collection development librarians * Changing roles of book vendors and subscription agents * Vendor selection and assessment * Economics of scholarly publishing * Publishing, pricing and distributing electronic journals * Electronic books: content, access, cataloging * External forces driving a library's collection management decisions * Problems of (and solutions for) managing electronic resources * Impact of collections on student learning * Cooperative journal management agreements * Open Access * Faculty involvement in scholarly communication issues * Preservation issues with electronic resources * Status and functionality of ERM modules * Costs/Benefits of gifts * Out of print acquisitions Deadline for submitting a proposal * December 1, 2004 How do I submit a proposal? * Send an abstract of 200 words or less to: Richard Brumley Head, Collection Development Department Oregon State University Libraries Corvallis, OR 97331-4501 <mailto:Richard.Brumley@orst.edu>Richard.Brumley@orst.edu Voice: (541) 737-2118 Fax: (541) 737-8267 The Acquisitions Institute at Timberline Lodge planning committee consists of Richard Brumley, Oregon State University; Nancy Slight-Gibney and Emily McElroy, University of Oregon; and Scott Smith, Blackwell's Book Services. Emily McElroy Collection Development & Acquisitions Librarian University of Oregon Libraries 1299 University of Oregon Eugene, OR 97403-1299 phone: 541-346-1646 fax: 541-346-3485 emcelroy@darkwing.uoregon.edu