Timberline Acquisitions Institute--Call for Proposals

[Faye]

Hello all, please consider joining us for the Institute if you aren't
up to submitting a proposal. It is a fun institute--a much smaller
scale than Charleston.


The Acquisitions Institute at Timberline Lodge is seeking proposals
for presentations as part of the Institute’s ninth year as the pre-
eminent Western North America conference on acquisitions and
collection development. This three-day conference focuses on the
methods and madness of building and managing library collections and
information content and provides a small, informal and stimulating
gathering in a convivial and glorious Northwestern setting. Institute
planners are open to presentations on all aspects of library
acquisitions and collection management. For the 2009 Institute, we
are keen to see submissions that address:
• Operations management of acquisitions or collection development
• Acquisitions functions in open source catalogs
• Web 2.0 for acquisitions work
• Role of consortia in collection development
• How subject librarians use their time
• Feral professionals: non-MLS professionals in libraries
• Recruiting for technical services and collection development
• Scholarly communication from the publisher perspective
• Opening day collections: process and problems
• Data curation: new roles for subject and technical services
specialists
• E-books, streaming audio, streaming video: content, access,
cataloging
• External forces driving a library's collection management decisions
• Collection assessment: library and vendor perspectives
• Linking collections with learning outcomes
• Return on investment studies
• Acquisitions and collection development: the small library
perspective

See The Acquisitions Institute at Timberline Lodge for more
information at http://libweb.uoregon.edu/ec/aitl/. The 2009
Timberline Acquisitions Institute will be held Saturday, May 16
through Tuesday, May 19, 2009 at the Timberline Lodge. The Lodge is
located approximately one hour east of Portland, Oregon on the slope
of Mt. Hood.
The deadline for submitting proposals is December 30, 2008. To submit
a proposal, send an abstract of 200 words or less to:

Faye A. Chadwell
Associate University Librarian
for Collections & Content Mgmt
121 The Valley Library
Oregon State University
Corvallis, OR 97331-4501

faye.c...@oregonstate.edu
phone: 541-737-8528 fax: 541-737-3453