Today's Topics: 1. ALCTS e-Forum: Thanks for Thinking of Us: Challenges and Solutions in Gifts Management (Elaine Franco) 2. ALCTS Web Course: Fundamentals of Acquisitions (Elaine Franco)
---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 ALCTS e-Forum: Thanks for Thinking of Us: Challenges and Solutions in Gifts Management October 25-26, 2016 Moderated by Nicole A. Casner and Sandy Lemmon Please join us for an e-forum discussion. It?s free and open to everyone! Registration information is at the end of the message. Each day, discussion begins and ends at: Pacific: 7 a.m. ? 3 p.m. Mountain: 8 a.m. ? 4 p.m. Central: 9 a.m. ? 5 p.m. Eastern: 10 a.m. ? 6 p.m. Collection Managers and Technical Services Colleagues: Do the words ?gift? and ?donation? make you want to hide in your office? Does it feel as if you?re drowning in a sea of patron generosity? Or, perhaps your institution implemented policies that expand the collection without anyone having to gently refuse yet another copy of last year?s bestseller? Please join the ALCTS e-Forum on October 25-26, 2016 as we share experiences, discuss policy options, and explore strategies for effective gifts management. Moderators Nicole A. Casner is the Head of Print Acquisitions and Shared Print Services for the UCLA Library. She holds a BA from Loyola University Chicago in political science and received her MLIS from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Prior to joining UCLA in 2015, she served as the Serials and Acquisitions Librarian at DePaul University in Chicago. Sandy Lemmon is the Head of Acquisitions and Serials at the Sibley Music Library, Eastman School of Music, University of Rochester. She has been a member of the Sibley Library staff for 23 years. Sandy holds degrees in music and business. She deals with gifts not only in her work in the library but also in her volunteer work with the Rochester Flute Association. What Is an e-Forum? An ALCTS e-forum provides an opportunity for librarians to discuss matters of interest, led by a moderator, through the e-forum discussion list. The e-forum discussion list works like an email listserv: register your email address with the list, and then you will receive messages and communicate with other participants through an email discussion. Most e-forums last two to three days. Registration is necessary to participate, but it's free. For information about upcoming e-forums, please visit http://www.ala.org/alcts/confevents/upcoming/e-forum How to Register You must register your email address to subscribe to or access an electronic discussion list on ALA's Mailing List Service. Once you have registered for one e-forum, you do not need to register again, unless you choose to leave the list. Find instructions for subscribing and unsubscribing online. ( http://www.ala.org/alcts/confevents/upcoming/e-forum/sympa) If you have any problems, please contact [email protected]. *Posted on behalf of the ALCTS Continuing Education Committee.* ------------------------------ Message: 2 ALCTS Web Course: Fundamentals of Acquisitions Session 5: November 7 - December 16, 2016 This six-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 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. In essence, acquisitions is a business operation, bringing materials into the library and licensing access to library collections and resources. Who Should Attend: As a fundamentals course, FOA is tailored for librarians and paraprofessionals new to the acquisitions field; and librarians and support staff from other library units and library school or LSSC students who want to know more about acquisitions. Although FOA focuses on the acquisition of monographs in various physical formats, it covers key components of acquisition and licensing processes for all library materials, in all formats, in all types of libraries. This course is one-third of the Collection Management Elective course approved by the Library Support Staff Certification Program (LSSCP). Because success in acquisitions depends on ability to collaborate, negotiate, and be flexible to work out win-win solutions with others, this course includes collaborative and social elements. Instructors - Betsy Redman, Acquisitions Serials Librarian, Arizona State University - Eleanor Cook, Assistant Director for Discovery & Technical Services Academic Library Services, East Carolina University - Michelle Flinchbaugh, Acquisitions and Digital Scholarship Services Librarian, UMBC Library - Donna Smith, Assistant Head of Technical Services, Northern Kentucky University - Jennifer Arnold, Director, Library Services, Central Piedmont Community College - Kate Kasimor is Technical Services Librarian at Higher Colleges of Technology (United Arab Emirates). - Kate B. Moore is Coordinator of Electronic Resources at Indiana University Southeast. - Christina Hennessey is Cataloging Librarian at Loyola Marymount University in California. Registration Fees: $139 ALCTS Member and $169 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 [email protected]. For all other questions or comments related to web courses, contact Julie Reese, ALCTS Events Manager at 1-800-545-2433, ext. 5034 or [email protected]. *Posted on behalf of the ALCTS Continuing Education Committee.* ------------------------------ End of Tsig Digest, Vol 54, Issue 5 *********************************** -- 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].
