Conferences & Meetings 10/30/12

On October 30, 2012 · Leave a Comment · In Conferences/Meetings

Continuing education opportunities from ACRL; RUSA; ALPSP and the Copyright Clearance Center and the Timberline Lodge

ACRL UPDATE

This update of events sponsored by the Association of College and Research Libraries includes information about meetings, workshops offering a variety of career development opportunities.

Introduction to Spatial Literacy: Next session begins Nov. 5

You may use tools like Google Maps in your personal life all the time for locating restaurants and local businesses, driving directions or planning trips via public transportation, but have you considered how this same technology could be used at your library to improve library services?

RUSA’s online course “Introduction to Spatial Literacy and Online Mapping″ is the perfect opportunity for librarians and library staff from public and academic libraries to gain a basic understanding of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) technology and learn about specific technologies they may be exposed to at the library. Registration for this course, which runs Nov. 5-25, ends on Thursday, Nov. 1. Register online now.

Analysing Customer Data to Create Competitive Advantage – An Online Seminar

When: November 15, 2012 at 10:00 to 11:30am ET USA (3:00 – 4:30pm UK; 4:00 – 5:30pm CEST)

Presenters: Sarah Zimmerman (Atypon) and Bill Matthews (HighWire Press)

Overview: Most publishers generate a lot of data, but few are using these data to create competitive advantage. Leading online retailers, social media sites, and web search engines mine customer data in real-time to create competitive advantage – from more targeted advertising and product recommendations to improving web site metrics. This webinar provides an introduction to customer data analytics along with actual examples of mining customer data to improve marketing results and to inform content development. Two customer data analytics experts will share their insights and experiences to inspire your organization to use this often untapped data resource to gain competitive advantage.

Who should attend: scholarly publishing directors, product developers, and marketing managers seeking comprehensive and current information on important new areas of research and development impacting all types of academic content.

(This is a Assn. of Learned and Professional Society Publishers and a Copyright Clearance Center webinar.)

The Acquisitions Institute at Timberline Lodge – Call for Papers

Saturday, May 18 through Tuesday, May 21, 2013, Timberline Lodge, One hour east of Portland, Oregon on the slope of Mt. Hood

WHAT IS The Acquisitions Institute?

* Since 2000, the pre-eminent conference located in Western North America on acquisitions and collection development held 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 to be held May 18-21, 2013.

WHAT 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:

All aspects of managing and directing acquisitions and/or collection development operations
Acquisitions functions in open source catalogs, integrated or unified library systems, etc.
Evolving consortial roles in collection development and acquisitions
Staffing, training and development, and recruiting issues, challenges, successes
The future of scholarly communication–its impact on acquisitions and collection development
Data curation and management and other new roles for subject librarians and technical services specialists
Web 2.0 applications and implementation in collection services
Patron-driven acquisitions, purchase on demand, streaming content, and other user-centered collection services
The development and management of digital collections, electronic resources
The impact of discovery services on collection and content access and usage
External and internal factors driving a library’s collection management decisions
Assessment tools, methods, and projects– (i.e., linking collections with learning outcomes; usage studies)
Return on investment studies—how do we demonstrate our impact?
Acquisitions and collection development: the small academic library or public library perspective
The future of print: what are the collection management issues?