Date: Sun, 12 Jun 1994 11:01:12 +0700
From: James Mouw <mouw@MIDWAY.UCHICAGO.EDU>
Subject: ACRL Serials Pricing Program

ALA DISCUSSION GROUP ANNOUNCEMENT

ACRL Journal Costs in Academic Libraries Discussion Group

After the Fall: Serials Management in the Post-Crisis Age.

Saturday, June 25 - 2:00 - 4:00 p.m.
Castle Beach Club - Theatre BR (number 5 on the ALA map)

Rapidly rising prices, an explosion of new publications in all formats, and
the emergence of alternative methods of access to information have all come
to be realities in our lives.  The ACRL Journal Costs Discussion Group will
explore these issues at our meeting during ALA Annual Conference.  Three
presentors will give ideas of ways in which we can manage our future.  These
papers will serve as a starting point for our discussion.

October Ivins, Head Acquisitions and Serials Services, LSU Libraries,
Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge will present "The Serials Survey
Project: Zero Based Collection Development at LSU".  Her talk will highlight
LSU's innovative approaches to collection management.

Janet Fisher, Associate Director for Journals Publishing, MIT Press will
present "Electronic Journals and the Management of Information: The View
from One Publisher's Window".
Her talk will ask the question "How are librarians and publishers going to
respond to the demand for electronic journals".  Ms. Fisher will describe
MIT Press's new electronic journal, _Chicago Journal of Theoretical Computer
Science_, and its differences from print journals.

Martha Whittaker, General Manager, The UnCover Company will present
"Document Delivery and Collection Management - Strange Bedfellows?"  She
will present document delivery as a complement to strong, effective
collection management.

Please Join us for this exciting discussion.

More information??

James Mouw
Chair, ACRL Journal Prices in Academic Libraries Discussion group
mouw@midway.uchicago.edu
uclmouw@uchimvs1.bitnet
312 702-8767