Is your workflow working?
Acquiring books in academic libraries
Our successful seminar from 2007 - repeated by popular demand at an easily accessible northern venue
NAG Academic Seminar
May 20th, Bar Convent York
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 seminar will focus on how UK academic libraries are improving efficiency and cost-effectiveness in acquisitions - using supplier services to best advantage, working with library systems suppliers to develop functionality and streamlining their own internal workflows. It is intended to be a sharing of experience between speakers and participants, encouraging discussion amongst attendees.
Draft 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?
EDI developments - are we taking full advantage throughout the supply chain?
Selection, alerting, ordering – centralised, devolved, completely automated, dealing with e-books?
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?
Seminar speakers:
Simon Edwards, E4Libraries
Jenny Evetts, University of St Andrews
Regina Ferguson, University of Salford
Sharon McIntosh, Birmingham City University
Nick James, University of Leicester
- Further details about these seminars will appear as details are confirmed. Please arrange transport to allow for a 10am start and 4pm finish.
Prices £150 members and £200 non-members (all ex VAT)
NAG is pleased to announce we have been awarded the CILIP Seal of Recognition. Our application was recently approved by the CILIP Accreditation Board in acknowledgement of the range of CPD activities that are relevant for the Library and Information Science Community.
- Please book for this seminar using our online form
