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ALCTS webinar: Floating Collections: Building on Your Patrons' Horizons

Date: September 21, 2011

All webinars are one hour in length and begin at 2pm Eastern, 1pm Central, noon Mountain, and 11am Pacific Time.

Description: What are the benefits of a floating collection? What is involved and what is the impact on the role of Reader's Advisor and patron expectations. This session covers the answers to these questions and lays out the steps involved in starting a floating collection. The many variables that need to be considered, how to sell this new collection concept to both staff and the public, and all the excitement floating collections generate will also be discussed.

Who Should Attend: Anyone with responsibilities for collection development will find this session of interest.

Presenter: Dawn Peters has been with the Buffalo and Erie County Public Library for 27 years. Currently she is the Library Director for the Orchard Park Public Library. Previously she managed the Support Services Department of the Buffalo and Erie County Public Library which included the Acquisitions, Catalog and Processing Departments. She was also directly involved with the Library system's migration to a new Integrated Library System.

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For additional information, pricing options, or to complete the online registration form, go to http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/alcts/confevents/upcoming/webinar/index.cfm and select the session you would like to attend.

ALCTS webinars are recorded and registrants receive a link to the recording shortly following the live event.

For questions about registration, contact ALA Registration by calling 1-800-545-2433 and press 5 or email registration@ala.org.

For all other questions or comments related to the webinars, contact Julie Reese, ALCTS Events Manager at 1-800-545-2433, ext. 5034 or jreese@ala.org.

Posted on behalf of the ALCTS Continuing Education Committee.