Professional Growth and Development Opportunities from ALCTS; the Colorado Academic Library Association; OpenAcess @ UNT; and NASIG
“Fundamentals of Acquisitions” Next session: March 11 – April 5, 2013
This is a four-week online course that focuses on the basics of library acquisitions:
- goals and methods of acquiring monographs and serials
- financial management of library collections budgets
- relationships among acquisitions librarians, library booksellers, subscription agents, and publishers.
This course provides a broad overview of the operations involved in acquiring materials after the selection decision is made.
In FOA, we distinguish between collection development, which involves the selection of materials for the library; and acquisitions, which orders, receives, and pays for those materials. In many libraries, selecting and acquiring materials may be done in the same department—in the smallest libraries perhaps even by the same person. In larger libraries, selection may be done by a collection development department and/or designated subject specialists, while a separate department acquires the selected materials. Acquisitions, in essence, is the business side of bringing materials into the library or licensing access to library resources…
This course is one-third of the Collection Management Elective course approved by the Library Support Staff Certification Program (LSSCP).
Registration Fees: $109 ALCTS Member and $129 Non-member
The Colorado Academic Library Association (CoALA) will host a day-long workshop on March 15, 2013 at the Community College of Aurora. It will include three plenary sessions, two lasting 2 hours and one lasting 1½ hours.
Topics of interest to academic librarians are of interest to the presentation selection committee. Example topics include: online teaching, distant students, electronic resources, information literacy, management/supervision, creating partnerships, assessment of learning or of programs, getting support from administration, library spaces, best practices, learning from worst mistakes, etc.
For all potential presenters – 3 days until the deadline to submit a presentation proposal! Apply by Feb. 8, 2013.
If you cannot make the March workshop, CoALA is hosting two other face-to-face workshops and one online workshop.
- April 5, face-to-face, University of Wyoming at Laramie Library
- April 26, face-to-face, Western State Colorado University at Gunnison Library
- May 10, online, hosted by Colorado State University – Pueblo Library
Questions? Send them to shelley.harper@ppcc.edu
Futures of Academic Publishing Symposium
Scheduled for May 30-31, 2013 in Dallas, Texas, “this event will bring together key stakeholders from academic research, funding agencies, industry, and the publishing field to explore the futures of academic publishing. Kathleen Fitzpatrick, Director of Scholarly Communication at the Modern Language Association, will deliver a keynote address that will challenge conference attendees to engage in an active discussion for two days of how scholarly publishing can evolve to most effectively meet the needs of academia and society.
Other speakers will include Anne R. Kenney (Chief Academic and Administrative Officer, Cornell University Library), Charles J. Henry (President, Council on Library and Information Resources and Anvil Academic Publisher), Catherine Mitchell (Director at California Digital Library Publishing Group), Jim Gilden (Editor of SAGE Open Sales at SAGE Publications), and many others.
Date: Friday, February 22, 2013; Time: 3pm (EST); Length: 1 hour
Cost: NASIG members: $35; Non-members: $50; Group participants: $95
Description:
The Kuali OLE project is writing a new open-source integrated library system, designed by librarians at the OLE partner institutions. As part of the design process, the OLE team is striving to answer questions about how librarians will manage serials and e-resources in the modern environment:
*How should print serials be managed in a predominantly electronic world?
*How can print and electronic serials workflows be integrated?
*How can OLE centralize and improve ERM functionality currently spread across multiple systems?
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