Dear colleagues,

The ALCTS CMDS Collection Development and Electronic Resources (CDER) Committee invites you to its program at the 2009 ALA Annual Conference:

Collecting for Digital Repositories: New Ways to Disseminate and Share Information

Date: Sunday, July 12th

Time: 3:30 pm - 5:30 pm

Location: Room W-190b, McCormick Place West

Three presenters will discuss collection development and management issues for three types of digital repository (i.e., institutional, disciplinary, and data repositories).  They will focus on selection criteria, content recruitment, and the role of digital repositories in scholarly communication. 

The presenters are:

Paul Royster, U. of Nebraska-Lincoln (presenter for institutional repository)

Dianne McCutcheon, National Library of Medicine (presenter for PubMed Central)

Sayeed Choudhury, Johns Hopkins U. (presenter for data repository)

Raym Crow from SPARC will be the moderator. 

This program is funded in part by a generous donation from ARTstor, and is co-sponsored by ACRL Scholarly Communication Committee and ACRL EBSS E-Resources in Communication Studies Committee. 

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Adrian K. Ho

Chair

Collection Development and Electronic Resources Committee

CMDS, Association for Library Collections and Technical Services

Scholarly Communication Librarian

The University of Western Ontario

(519) 661-2111 x87832  |  adrian.ho@uwo.ca

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