ALCTS e-forum: Shifting Technical Services Priorities to Meet Evolving Needs of the Institution

Please join us for an e-forum discussion. It’s free and open to everyone! Registration information is at the end of the message.

“Shifting Technical Services Priorities to Meet Evolving Needs of the Institution”
Jan. 26-28, 2010
E-forum starts at 9 AM Eastern, 8 AM Central, 7 AM Mountain, and 6 AM Pacific time

Library technical services have been undergoing [...]

Webcast: ALCTS/LITA ERM Interest Group (ALA Boston)

Dear Colleagues:

We are also going to webcast the Resources Management Interest Group ALCTS/LITA meeting at ALA 2010 Midwinter Conference in Boston, Massachusetts!!! If you can’t join us in Boston, meet us on the web!!! Instructions for virtual attendees at the end of this message.

Join the meeting: https://www.livemeeting.com/cc/tdnet/join? id=KD4MF7&role=attend&pw=M++t @Wg3s

Meeting: LITA Electronic Resources Management Interest Group
Date: [...]

ALA Midwinter: ALCTS Public Libraries Technical Services Interest Group

Saturday, Jan. 16, 2010, 8:00 am-10:00 am
Boston Convention & Exhibition Center, Room 253 A

We would like to invite you to join us for our midwinter Public Libraries Technical Services IG meeting. This will be our second meeting. We will have a presentation by:

Karen Potash, Lead Collection Development Specialist, and Shannon Lichty, Partner Services Manager at [...]

Midwinter Meeting for ALCTS Acquisition

ALA Midwinter meeting of the ALCTS Acquisitions Managers and Vendor Interest Group
Sunday, January 17th from 1:30 – 3:00 pm
BCEC room 256

Topic: How are and how should evolving acquisitions and public service models affect vendor business models?

What academic libraries provide to patrons is changing, as is how they provide these new services and materials. Electronic resources [...]

ALCTS – PVLR Forum – Innovation by Necessity Panel Program

ALCTS – PVLR Forum
Monday, January 18, 2010, 8-10 am
Boston Convention & Exhibition Center, Room 157C

Innovation By Necessity: The economy is not bringing good news these days, but there can be interesting outcomes when organizations are pushed out of their routine procedures and workflows. Throughout the library materials supply chain, we’re providing content and services that [...]

ALCTS E-Resource Interest Group Midwinter Meeting

ALCTS E-Resource Interest Group (ERIG) Midwinter Meeting
Saturday, January 16th, 10:30am-12:00pm.
BCEC-Room 253A

TOPIC: “In the ‘Know’: E-Resource Knowledge Base Management and Best Practices”

Title: Users Love It but it Sure is a Lot of Work!

What are the day-to-day issues of dealing with these systems and databases as they now exist? With all of the LABOR involved in keeping [...]

ALA 2010 MidWinter ALCTS CRS Costs of Continuing Resources in Libraries Interest Group

The ALCTS CRS Costs of Continuing Resources in Libraries Interest Group invites you to attend:
Open Access: Entitlement, Opportunity, or Peril?
Sunday, January 17, 2010, 4:00-5:30 p.m.
Boston Convention & Exhibition Center–Room 157C

Current tough economic times are forcing libraries to explore alternatives to conventional publishing access models. Many institutions (like MIT) have expressed strong support for Open Access [...]

Out of Print Discussion Group (OPDG) at ALA Midwinter 2010

Title: The Growing Availability of Out of Print Books: Digitization on Demand, Print on Demand, and the Expanding O.P. Market.
Time: Sunday, January 17, 1:30-3:00
Location: Boston Convention and Exhibition Center, room 157 B

Description: More and more libraries are offering Digitization on Demand which allows patrons to select the books that are digitized and released on the [...]

Midwinter program on E-Resource Knowledge Base Management

“In the ‘Know’: E-Resource Knowledge Base Management and Best Practices”
ALCTS E-Resource Interest Group (ERIG)
Saturday, January 16th, 10:30am-12:00pm.
BCEC-Room 253A

Speakers:
Charlotte Keys, Director
University Library Technology Services
Tufts Univesity

Sarah Tusa, Associate Professor
Coordinator of Collection Development & Acquisitions
Mary & John Gray Library, Lamar University

Christine Stohn
SFX Product Manager
Ex Libris

Jason Price, Ph.D.
Head of Collections & Acquisitions – Claremont Colleges’ Library
eResource Package Analyst – [...]

Technical Services Workflow Efficiency IG (ALA Midwinter 2010)

ALA Midwinter 2010 Technical Services Workflow Efficiency Interest Group
Chairs: Robin Champieux and Dracine Hodges
Monday, January 18, 2010, 1:30 -3:30pm, BCEC-Room 160A

Topic: Tech Services: Offsite and Out of Sight? Technical services work is changing. What is performed, how it is performed and where it is performed are shifting, sometimes radically, to better meet the demands of [...]

JSTOR and Portico | ALA Midwinter 2010 & Recent Events

Announcing the JSTOR Participants’ Meeting at the ALA Midwinter Meeting in Boston, MA. Our meeting is open to anyone who would like to attend as well as individuals from libraries and publishers already participating in JSTOR. Please also plan to stop by the JSTOR | Portico booth # 2649 at the Boston Convention & Exhibition [...]

ALCTS Scholarly Communications IG meeting

The ALCTS Scholarly Communications Interest Group will meet on Monday, January 18 from 1:30-3:30 pm in Room 105 of the Boston Convention & Exhibition Center (BCEC).

 Our guest will be Dan Hazen, Associate Librarian of Harvard College for Collection Development. Dan has extensive experience in collection development and is frequently invited to publish, speak, and consult [...]

ALA Midwinter 2010 Program Announcement: ALCTS Continuing Resources Section College & Research Libraries IG

You are cordially invited to attend the following ALA Midwinter program sponsored by the ALA ALCTS Continuing Resources Section College and Research Libraries Interest Group.

ALCTS Continuing Resources Section College & Research Libraries Interest Group Midwinter Meeting
Date: Sunday, 1/17/2010
Time: 10:30 am -12:00 noon
Location: Westin Waterfront (WEST) – Burroughs