Again this year, law librarians working in collection development will find great programs and meetings to plan on attending during the 2010 AALL Annual Meeting in Denver, Colorado. Interaction with our colleagues will be plentiful indeed! Listed below are several items that should be on everyone’s schedule:
Learning Outcomes:
With every new year and each new technological marvel, the work of librarians engaged in collection development has the potential to get more complex. With so much information at our fingertips and so many possibilities before us, now is the perfect time to review both the fundamental “tried-and-true” tools of collection development, as well as some of the newer tools that hold great promise for streamlining our workflow to get the most comprehensive and relevant information. This program will touch on a few of the most widely used traditional tools for collection development, some of which include Books in Print, WorldCat, acquisitions listservs, and slip/approval plans. It will then move on to some of the new and exciting possibilities offered by Web 2.0, like RSS feeds for new acquisitions and collection development blogs. Participants’ input on their favorite tools they currently use will be gathered and shared.
All librarians involved in collection development are encouraged to join us for this year’s roundtable discussion. Since there are no formal speakers scheduled, this will truly be a discussion, so please bring your expertise with this topic to share with those who need information to bring back to their respective institutions.
Please bring questions, concerns (and sample policies)* to the table!
* Or send to kanuck2@uky.edu (Karen A. Nuckolls, Chair, ALL-SIS CD Comm.)
This committee meeting is open to all interested AALL members. 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, Karen A. Nuckolls (kanuck2@uky.edu).