SEMINAR
Is your workflow working? Acquiring books in academic libraries.
Thursday 14 June 2007
Friends House, Euston Road, London
(opposite Euston Station)
10.30 a.m. – 4 p.m. Registration: 10.00 a.m. onwards
Our seminar prices held at 2006 levels!
Ex-VAT prices (including lunch and refreshments)
£125 members / £175 non-members
Is your internal workflow effective? Are you using supplier services as much as you would like? Are you thinking of shelf-ready options? Find out what UK colleagues are doing now and share your experiences in this area – discussion amongst participants will be actively encouraged!
Our summer seminar will focus on how UK academic libraries are actually trying to improve efficiency and cost-effectiveness in acquisitions - using supplier services to best advantage, working with library systems suppliers to develop functionality and improving their own internal workflows. It is intended to be a sharing of experience between speakers and participants, encouraging discussion amongst attendees.
Programme
Many academic libraries are now experimenting with shelf-ready books – how far along this path have they really gone yet? Communicating with suppliers in order to receive processed books and/or records involves activity at all stages of acquisition, as does the path to increased internal efficiency. What might hold us back, and what can we do to change that?
Selection, alerting, ordering – centralised, devolved, completely automated?
Processing your books – who does it, what do they do?
Cataloguing and classification – in-house or not, standardised or bespoke?
Accessioning, invoicing, uploading and downloading – does it work?
Speakers
Beverly Brittan and Helen Williams, London School of Economics
Phil Coles – SIRSI/Dynix
Sharon Macintosh, University of Central England
Nick James and Louise Jones, University of Leicester
Regina Ferguson, University of Salford
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