*Timberline Acquisitions Institute Program Proposals due by Dec. 30, 2007*
What is the Acquisitions Institute?
The pre-eminent Western North American conference on acquisitions and
collection development, now in its seventh year at Timberline Lodge, one
hour
east of Portland, Oregon on the slope of Mt. Hood*
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Saturday, May 17th through Tuesday, May 20th, 2008
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
See the _Acquisitions Institute at Timberline Lodge website_
<http://libweb.uoregon.edu/events/aitl> for more information.
Topics we are 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:
o Operations management of acquisitions or collection development
o The culture of acquisitions
o Organization for collection development
o Role of consortia in collection development
o Financial management, accounting practices, and audits
o Integrated library systems as management information systems
o Personnel issues and strategies for change
o Recruiting and retaining technical services and collection
development librarians
o Changing roles of book vendors and subscription agents
o Vendor selection and assessment
o Economics of scholarly publishing
o Publishing, pricing and distributing electronic journals
o Electronic books: content, access, cataloging
o External forces driving a library's collection management
decisions
o Problems of (and solutions for) managing electronic resources
o Linking collections with learning outcomes
*HOW do I submit a proposal? *
* Send an abstract of 200 words or less to:
Richard Brumley
Oregon State University Libraries, retired
Corvallis, OR 97331-4501
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Voice: (541) 725 - 6635
The Acquisitions Institute at Timberline Lodge planning committee
consists of Richard Brumley, Oregon State University; Nancy
Slight-Gibney, University of Oregon; Faye Chadwell, Oregon State
University, and Scott Alan Smith, Blackwell's Book Services.
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Cara List
Art and Architecture Reference Librarian
Architecture and Allied Arts Library
5249 University of Oregon
Eugene, OR 97403-5249
541-346-2200
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