Today's Topics: 1. ALA Annual Program: Mentoring Demystified: Partners in Success (Elaine Franco) 2. Final Round of Voting in ALCTS Slogan Contest Now Open (Elaine Franco) 3. Seventh Annual Collection Management & Development Research Forum (Elaine Franco)
---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Interested in mentoring as a way to enhance your career or give back to the profession? Please join the ALCTS Leadership Development Committee for Mentoring Demystified: Partners in Success! Saturday, June 25, 1:00-2:30 Orange County Convention Center (OCCC) S320 E-F Featured speaker Kathryn Deiss, library consultant and ACRL content strategist, will provide an overview of mentoring - why it's important; basics of the mentor/mentee relationship; challenges of a remote relationship; and how to become a mentor or find a mentor. Deborah Tenofsky will discuss the LLAMA Mentoring Program and LLAMA mentor/mentee pair Janice Flug and Sarah Norris will share their experiences. Hayley Moreno of the ALCTS New Members Interest Group will share a report on Establishing an ALCTS Mentoring Program http://connect.ala.org/files/MentoringProgramReport_noSurvey.pdf Then you, our members, will have a chance to express your ideas, hopes, needs and goals for mentoring opportunities within ALCTS. This program is offered by the ALCTS Leadership Development Committee and co-sponsored by the Library Leadership and Management Association (LLAMA), the ALA New Members Round Table (NMRT), and the ALCTS New Members Interest Group (ANMIG), Please contact Lee Richardson, ALCTS program co-chair, with questions about the program at [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Follow the conversation #ALCTSAC16 ------------------------------ Don't forget to vote for your favorite slogan in the ALCTS Slogan Contest. The final round of voting ends Monday, June 6, so vote now<http://connect.ala.org/node/253839>! This poll is in ALA Connect, and you will need your ALA login credentials to vote. Please note that the poll is only open to current ALCTS members. Remember to choose the slogan that best represents ALCTS, says who we are and who we want to be, and can inspire current members and catch the interest of potential new members. The contest will lead up to the celebration of the 60th Anniversary of ALCTS in 2017, and is being run by the ALCTS Advocacy and Policy Committee in conjunction with the ALCTS Office. Winning prizes: Individual registration for the ALCTS Virtual Preconference for Annual 2016 plus a Fall 2016 individual Webinar registration package-valued at over $350! The poll for the final round of voting is open through 5 pm CDT on Monday, June 6. Please contact ALCTS<mailto:[email protected]?subject=ALCTS%20Slogan%20Contest> with any questions. Brooke Morris Communications Specialist Association for Library Collections & Technical Services (ALCTS) American Library Association (ALA) 50 E. Huron St. Chicago, IL 60611 800.545.2433 x5037 312.280.5037 312.280.5033 (fax) [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> www.ala.org/alcts<http://www.ala.org/alcts> ------------------------------ Message: 3 The Publications Committee of the Collection Management Section of ALCTS is sponsoring the Seventh Annual Collection Management & Development Research Forum at the 2016 American Library Association Annual Conference in Orlando. Sunday, June 26, 4:30-5:30 p.m. Orange County Convention Center, Room W108 Lynn Wiley will discuss two demand driven e-book packages for Humanities university press books that use different measures for determining demand. This work compares triggered demand models for e-book purchasing with evidence based demand purchasing. Lynn is Head of Acquisitions at the University of Illinois Urbana Champaign University Libraries. Wenli Gao and Cherie Turner will describe their research into monograph usage that compares the usage patterns of books acquired via approval plan with those acquired through firm orders and incorporates interlibrary loan data for analysis. Wenli is the Communication, Sociology, and Anthropology Librarian at the University of Houston Libraries and Cherie Turner is the Chemical Sciences Librarian at the University of Houston Libraries. Kristin Calvert will discuss a citation analysis of research published by Western Carolina University faculty and staff to determine whether a statistically-significant relationship exists between academic department and the type(s) of research cited in its faculty's scholarship. The result of this analysis is then used to apply adjustments across all subject areas in the library's allocation formula. Kristin is Assistant Professor and Department Head of Content Organization & Management at Hunter Library, Western Carolina University. ------------------------------ End of Tsig Digest, Vol 50, Issue 6 *********************************** -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "[email protected]" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected].
