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ALCTS – PVLR Forum
Monday, January 18, 2010, 8-10 am
Boston Convention & Exhibition Center,
Room 157C
Innovation By Necessity: The economy
is not bringing good news these days, but there can be interesting outcomes
when organizations are pushed out of their routine procedures and workflows.
Throughout the library materials supply chain, we’re providing content
and services that we’ve always provided, but in new and different ways.
Speakers:
Beth Bernhardt/UNC-Greensboro: Maintaining
traditional collection development, but also pursuing patron-driven purchasing
of eBooks via MyiLibrary, Rittenhouse's R2 and other platforms.
Lindsey Schell/University of Texas-Austin:
UT Austin is exploring options for increasing the universe of available
content for our patrons while simultaneously trimming collections budgets.
We are doing this through a series of initiatives such as a Pay-per-view
eBook program with EBL, developing a patron-driven print approval plan
and adjusting technical services workflows to accommodate for decreased
staffing and eliminate unnecessary tasks.
Judy Luther/Informed Strategies: The
university presses at NYU, Rutgers, Temple and Penn have received a grant
from the Mellon Foundation and have engaged three consultants as a team
to evaluate the potential for a collaborative business model and a branded
consortium to sell university presses eBooks. The growing demand
for eBooks and market changes are prompting the presses to assess options
for a sustainable plan that will serve the changing needs of libraries
and researchers.
Hester Campbell/YBP: How are vendors
changing in response to changes happening at their suppliers and customers?
As the economy tightens, how does publisher retooling impose change on
vendors? On the other side of the equation, as libraries deal with repurposing
staff and shifting their acquisitions dollars from print to E, how does
that bring change to their vendors? In the middle, vendors seek to continue
to provide efficient and valuable services for their publisher partners
and library customers.
And then we want to hear from you
– we hope that these presentations will generate questions for our speakers,
but also discussion from you about the kinds of supply-chain/materials
acquisitions changes you’re facing in your organizations.
PVLR will also hold its regular planning
meeting Saturday afternoon, 4-5:30 pm, at the Convention Center, Room 206B.
Please come prepared to discuss a couple of the most important issues facing
your organization (in terms of creating, selling, or acquiring library
materials), and we’ll sort out a topic for the Annual meeting in DC.
Ann-Marie Breaux (Chair, PVLR)
Vice President, Academic Service Integration
YBP Library Services
Phone/fax: (678) 445-5720 vmail: (800)
258-3774 x3504
e-mail: abreaux@ybp.com