[Apologies in advance for cross-posting - nsg]

        CALL FOR PAPERS

The Acquisitions Institute at Timberline Lodge
"Acquisitions and Collection Development: The Beat Goes On, But Is It Cool
Jazz or Hard Rock?"
Saturday, May 19 through Tuesday, May 22, 2001
Timberline Lodge - one hour east of Portland, Oregon on the slope of Mt Hood

What is the Acquisitions Institute?

  * The pre-eminent Western North America conference on acquisitions and
collection development, now in its second year in its new home at
Timberline Lodge

  * A small, informal and stimulating gathering in a convivial and glorious
Northwestern setting

  * A three day forum for addressing the methods and madness of building
and managing library collections

  * For more information see
http://libweb.uoregon.edu/acqdept/institute/home.html

What topics are we looking for?

  * The planning committee is open to presentations on all aspects of
library acquisitions and collections management.  Presenters are encouraged
to engage the audience in discussion.  Panel discussions are well received.
 The planning committee may wish to bring individual proposals together to
form panels.  The committee is especially looking for submissions on the
following topics:

  * Management of acquisitions
  * Organization for collection development
  * Role of consortia in collection development
  * Tools for financial management
  * Personnel issues and coping with change
  * Staff training
  * Economics of scholarly publishing
  * Changing role of book vendors and subscription agents
  * Publishing, pricing and distributing electronic journals
  * Electronic books: content, access, cataloguing
  * External forces driving a library's collection management decisions
  * Problems of (and solutions for) managing electronic resources

What is the deadline for submitting a proposal?

  * November 30, 2000

How do I submit a proposal?

  * Send an abstract of 200 words or less to:

  Richard Brumley
  Head, Collection Development Department
  Oregon State University Libraries
  Corvallis, Oregon 97331-4501
  phone: (541) 737 - 2118
  fax: 541 - 737 - 8267
  email: richard.brumley@orst.edu

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Nancy Slight-Gibney               voice: 541/346-1831
Head, Acquisition Department       fax:  541/346-3485
Anthropology Subject Specialist   email: nsg@oregon.uoregon.edu
Room 121G Knight Library
1299 University of Oregon
Eugene, OR 97403-1200
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