Law librarians working in collection development will have a wonderful array of opportunities to look forward to during the 2009 AALL Annual Meeting. Programs, roundtables, and meetings are scheduled to give each of us a chance to interact with our friends and colleagues from around the country. Of course the primary objective of these events is the sharing of resources, inspirations, and ideas that we can take back to our home libraries. So what if we have a little bit of fun in the process? Listed below are three items that all collection development librarians will want to have on their radars (and their schedules!).
ALL-SIS Sponsored Program
Weed, Shelve or Store?: Making the Hard Decisions
Tuesday, July 28, 2009, 2:30 p.m.
Level: Intermediate
Audience: Librarians involved in collection management, public services, stack maintenance, and technical services in academic law libraries.
Competency Addressed: Collection Care and Management
Learning Outcomes:
Both shelving space and budget reductions are making thoughtful and creative weeding practices a critical skill set for librarians charged with collection development and management in the academic law libraries of the 21st century. Next year, volume count will no longer be the prime method of judging a library’s status for the purpose of ABA statistics. Academic law librarians will gain knowledge and expertise on how to acquire useful space for new materials by weeding, storing, or withdrawal of periodicals. Speakers will bring their own idea about what “best practices” should be, and a summary of their weeding endeavors.
ALL-SIS Collection Development Roundtable
Making the Cut: Collection Development in the Face of Shrinking Budgets
Tuesday, July 28, 2009, 9:00 - 10:00 a.m.
All librarians involved in collection development are encouraged to join us for this year’s roundtable. We will be joined by Amanda Runyon and Leslie Street, both of whom have studied (and continue to study) patterns in cancellations in law libraries. Amanda and Leslie will briefly share their findings, and then we will open up the floor to a discussion of the strategies many of us are currently employing to make careful and thoughtful collection development decisions while working with smaller budgets than many of us have faced in the recent past. The more strategies and ideas each of you brings to the roundtable, the better experience this promises to be for everyone. Join us!
ALL-SIS Collection Development Committee Meeting
Saturday, July 25, 2009, 4:00 - 5:00 p.m.
Though the membership of the ALL-SIS Collection Development Committee consists of a small group determined by the ALL-SIS Executive Board, the annual committee meeting is an open event. Anyone interested in the activities, projects and plans of the committee is welcome to attend. Recommendations for future committee projects or programs are welcome and can be offered to the committee for consideration by communicating with the current committee chair, Courtney Selby (courtney-selby@utulsa.edu).