Conferences, Meetings, and Webinars 4/3/13

Register here:

https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/316689856

For questions about registration, contact Julie Reese, ALCTS Events Manager at 1-800-545-2433, ext. 5034 or jreese@ala.org.

ALCTS Web Course: Fundamentals of Acquisitions

Next session: May 6 – May 31, 2013

This four-week online course is a basic primer for library acquisitions concepts common to all library materials formats. It covers:

• Goals and methods of acquiring monographs and serials in all formats;
• Theoretical foundations and workflows of basic acquisitions functions;
• Financial management of library collections budgets;
• Relationships among acquisitions librarians, library booksellers, subscription agents, and publishers…

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

For additional details, registration links, and contact information see: http://www.ala.org/alcts/confevents/upcoming/webcourse/foa/ol_templ

For questions about registration, contact ALA Registration by calling 1-800-545-2433 and press 5 or email registration@ala.org. For all other questions or comments related to web courses, contact Julie Reese, ALCTS Events Manager at 1-800-545-2433, ext. 5034 or alctsce@ala.org.

ACRL 2013 Virtual Conference

Registration is still available for the ACRL 2013 Virtual Conference, offered April 11-12, 2013. For those librarians with reduced support for professional development and or travel, the ACRL 2013 Virtual Conference is a great way to leverage a small investment into large learning opportunities. The Virtual Conference features twelve live webcasts, as well as asynchronous activities, allowing for convenient scheduling and flexibility. The Virtual Conference archive will be available for one year and will include more than 130 slidecasts from every contributed paper, Cyber Zed Shed presentation, invited paper and panel session presented at the face-to-face ACRL 2013 conference. Registration materials are available in the Virtual Conference section of the ACRL 2013 website.

The Publishing Business Conference & Expo, the nation’s largest conference and expo for book, magazine and journal publishers, will take place September 23-25, 2013, at the New York Marriott Marquis Times Square. The Publishing Business Conference & Expo is produced each year by the Publishing Business Group and Book Business and Publishing Executive magazines.

We are also pleased to announce that this year, our book and magazine tracks will be joined by a new STM/Scholarly track.

For our visionary, industry-leading conference program, we are seeking qualified speakers to share their expertise in a wide range of publishing areas…

Call for Speakers Procedure
All submissions must be e-mailed to Lynn Rosen , Editorial Director, at lrosen@napco.com For your submission to be considered, it must be received by Friday, March 15, 2013.

As the vast majority of our speakers each year are book and magazine publishing executives, we are particularly interested in professionals currently working at publishing companies. If you’re a vendor or consultant who serves these markets, we ask that you include a publishing client as a co-speaker in any speaker proposal.

Please include the following in your proposal:
• a tentative name for the session
• a 1-2 paragraph description of the session and what attendees can expect to learn
• the name, title and company of the speakers(s)
• the speaker’s bio