As you are making your plans to attend MLA, do take advantage of the excellent programming that Cecilia Botero and her committee have arranged for us and direct potential new members to Section Shuffle which will be held again this year.  Ramune Kubulius is coordinating our participation in the Shuffle. Look for additional information on these events in this issue of “Developments”. We are also looking forward to seeing you attend the Collection Development Section Business Meeting which will be held Monday, May 21, from 4:30-5:15 pm in Room 303 of the Washington State Convention Center.

For budgetary reasons and to streamline the work of the CDS Awards Committee, the CDS Board has merged all CDS travel awards into one review system, and developed a point system. The point system will be documented on our website for the assistance to future committees. Ramune Kubulius , our Section Council Representative, queried the other MLA sections about their travel awards practices. The CDS Board also brainstormed about fun-raising activities.  Katherine Chew and Suan Kendall are exploring the addition of ads to the “Developments “ website. Other suggestions include inviting corporate sponsorship of the awards, developing online continuing education efforts, and updating MLA Dockit  Collection Development and Management for Electronic, Audiovisual, and Print Resources in Health Sciences Libraries (2nd revised edition ed). Chicago, IL: Medical Library Association, 2004. Please contact me if you are interested in assisting with any of these efforts or have others to suggest.

One of the responsibilities of the CDS Chair is the opportunity to help MLA identify good people for various committees. Mary Langman, MLA headquarters staff, contacted me about the appointment of a CDS liaison to the MLA Scholarly Communications Committee which will become a standing committee June 1^st.  Katherine Chew, chair of the Scholarly Communication Collaborative for the University Libraries at the University of Minnesota,  was recommended for this position.

Thanks to all of the CDS officers  and committee members for their hard work this year.

Mary Fran Prottsman,
Collection Development Section Chair, 2011-2012

• Janet Doe Lecture — Mark Funk

• Business Meeting Agenda

• 2012 Programs Sponsored and Co-sponsored by Collection Development Section

• Section Shuffle

Janet Doe Lecture — Plenary Session III

Monday, May 21, 9:00 a.m.–10:00 a.m.

Mark E. Funk, AHIP, FMLA

“Our Words, Our Story: A Textual Analysis of Articles Published in the Bulletin of the Medical Library Association/Journal of the Medical Library Association from 1961 to 2010”

Mark E. Funk, AHIP, FMLA, associate director for resources and education, Samuel J. Wood Library, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, NY, is known for his work in collection development and acquisitions. He has served on many library advisory boards for national and international publishers and is a much sought-after speaker.

Funk received his master’s degree from the University of Missouri–Columbia. He was a medical librarian at the University of Missouri–Kansas City and the University of Nebraska Medical Center before joining the Weill Cornell Medical Library in 1987. He has served on the MLA Board of Directors and was treasurer (2001–2003) and president (2007/08). His other leadership positions in MLA have included serving on Section Council, as chair of both the Research and Collection Development Sections, and on many MLA committees and task forces. He was named an MLA Fellow in 2010.

As president, he led MLA to expand its use of Web 2.0 and social networking tools, as well as introduced virtual aspects of the annual meeting, allowing “attendance” from anywhere. He served a four-year term on the National Library of Medicine’s Literature Selection Technical Review Committee, which selects journals for indexing in Index Medicus.

He is not related to Carla J. Funk, CAE, Hon. FCLIP, MLA executive director.

Annual Business Meeting Agenda

The following is a tentative Business Meeting agenda.  Contact Mary Fran Prottsman prottsma@usc.edu if you wish to suggest changes to the agenda.

Medical Library Association

Collection Development Section

Business Meeting

Monday, May 21st, 2012

Washington State Convention Center, Room 303

4:30-5:15 p.m.

• Welcome and call to order             (Mary Fran Prottsman, CDS Chair, 2011-2012)
• Reports
  • Awards                                                                            (Rebecca Raszewski)
    • Recognition of Travel Awards recipients
    • Recognition of MLA Louise Darling Medal for Distinguished Achievement in Collection Development in the Health Sciences
• Secretary/Treasurer                                                                                 (Martha Earl)
  • Minutes from 2011 Annual Business Meeting
    • Financial Report
• 2012 Program Committee                                                                    (Cecilia Bortero)
• Nominating Committee                                                                     (Ramune Kubilius)
• Bylaws Committee                                                                             (Ramune Kubilius)
• Website Committee                                                                  (Mary Fran Prottsman)
• Continuing Education Committee                                           (Mary Fran Prottsman)
  • CDS 2012 Symposium proposal
• Membership Committee                                                                        (Susan Kendall)
• Section Council                                                                                    (Ramune Kubilius)
• MLA Governmental Relations Committee Liaison              (Mary Fran Prottsman)
• MLA Scholarly Committee Liaison                                                   (Katherine Chew)
• Developments- CDS newsletter                                                        (Katherine Chew)
• New Business
  • Thank you to all 2011-2012 chairs & committees; & introduction of new CDS officers                                                               (Mary Fran Prottsman)

• 2013 program planning                                                                          (Susan Kendall)
  • Open floor for membership input
• Chairmanship turnover to Cecilia Botero
  • Call for committee volunteers
  • Objectives for 2012/2013
• Other new business
• Adjournment
• Adjournment of  business meeting

2012 Programs Sponsored and Co-Sponsored by the Collection Development Section

Submitted by Cecilia Botero, Program Chair for 2012

Primary Sponsor and co-sponsors: Collection Development Section, Technical Services Section

Program Name: Sustaining Library Collections to Ensure a Home Run

Program Format: Contributed papers

Date & Time:  Tuesday, 22 May, 2-3:30 p.m.

Section Contact: Cecilia Botero

Share your experiences and help us all hit a home run! Libraries increasingly must make informed decisions on what users really need. This session will pursue the concept of creating or updating models for sustaining library collections. Topics might include patron-driven acquisition (PDA) plans, consortial and/or shared purchasing models that leverage group buying power, and so on. In short, creative models designed to stretch a library’s collection and materials budgets by purchasing materials needed “just in time,” not “just in case.” Sustainability models might also include the concept of using existing resources to their fullest extent. In that context this program would include issues of discoverability and providing better avenues for users to find resources, whether through the OPAC or outside tools.

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Primary Sponsor and co-sponsors: Health Association Libraries Sections, Research Section, Consumer and Patient Health Information Section, Collection Development Section

Program Name: Moneyball: Demystifying Library Funding

Program Format: Contributed papers and other

Date & Time:  Monday, 21 May, 10:30-noon

Section Contact: Gini Blodgett

This session will comprise six fifteen-minute contributed presentations or question-and-answer sessions from librarians who have succeeded in getting funding to support research projects, special collections, one-time activities, or ongoing operations from a variety of foundation, government, and community sources. Presentations will share how funders were selected and approached, the process of being funded, and post-funding requirements and continuing engagement. The design or impact of the actual projects will not be discussed, so that you may submit the actual project for consideration for another session as a paper or poster.

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Primary sponsor and co-sponsors: Technical Services Section, Collection Development Section, Molecular Biology and Genomics SIG

Program Name: Stepping Up to the Plate with New Concepts of Data: Resource Description and Access, Semantic Web, Linked Data

Program Format: Contributed and invited papers

Date & Time:  Sunday, 20 May, 4:30-6 p.m.

Section Contact: Megan Curran

In celebration of its 30th year, MLA’s Technical Services Section seeks contributed papers concerning the future of data and metadata, and how medical libraries may interact with and institute these new concepts. Of particular interest will be papers focusing on resource description and access (RDA), proposed replacements for MARC21, the semantic web, linked data, and other novel or alternative concepts of data and metadata creation and organization.

Section Shuffle

Submitted by Ramune Kubilius, Immediate Past Chair
CDS members are invited to come to the biannual Section Shuffle on Sunday, May 20 from 6:00-7:00 pm, in Room 4C (1&2). CDS is a sponsor of this event, so please be sure to stop by the CDS booth and see how we are promoting our section. Enjoy the costumes and publicity displayed at other sections’ booths. The plans for the 2012 Section Shuffle include: beverages and refreshments, as well as a competition for the most innovative and fun Section Table theme/decoration.  The Section Shuffle will also include forms for participants to sign up for 6 month trials to Sections that are new to them, or of which they haven’t been a member for the past 5 years. This will be a good CDS membership recruitment opportunity.  If you haven’t seen it, here is a short video highlighting the 2010 event.  While exact attendance numbers aren’t available, Section Council leadership estimates that around 400 people were in attendance.

Congratulations and best of luck to our new CDS officers!

Incoming chair elect:

Susan Kendall
Biology Librarian and Coordinator for Health Sciences
Michigan State University Libraries
skendall@msu.edu

CDS candidate to the MLA Nominating Committee:

Elizabeth (Liz) Lorbeer
Associate Director for Content Management & Associate Professor
Lister Hill Library of the Health Sciences
University of Alabama at Birmingham
lorbeer@uab.edu

CDS Nominating Committee

Ramune Kubilius (chair)

Donna Belcinski

Bette Sydelko

CDS Awards Committee- Daniel T. Richards Prize for 2011- Rebecca Raszewski (chair) and members Lynn Fortney and Leslie Czechowski.

The Awards Committee this year decided not to award the Daniel T. Richards Prize.  We did not receive many nominations and some of the nominations were not eligible because the author had won the award within the past 5 years.  I would like to thank Lynn Fortney and Leslie Czechowski for their service on this committee.

Submitted by Susan Kendall, Collection Development Section Membership Chair

The following are new or newly returning members of the Collection Development Section since fall of 2011.  Welcome!

Nancy Aldrich, Florida Hospital, Orlando, FL

Carol S. Lunce, Northern Virginia Community College, Springfield, VA

Rebecca McKay, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX

Ramon Salim Diab, Garden City Hospital, Garden City, MI

Marian T. Simonson, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH

Linda Van Keuren, Georgetown University Medical Center, Washington, DC

Teresa Prior, Nanaimo Regional General Hospital, Nanaimo, BC

Noreen Kirkman, University of New South Wales, Sidney, Australia

Marie Bronoel, University of California, Riverside, Riverside, CA

Susan Foster-Harper, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY

Amy Purvis, Galen College of Nursing, St. Petersburg, FL

Rick L. Fought, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, TN

Wei Cen, Gulf Coast State College, Panama City, FL

Christopher H. Parker, DePaul University, Chicago, IL

Carolyn Schubert, James Madison University, Harrisonburg, VA

Nancy Calabretta, Cooper University Hospital, Camden, NJ

Julio Diaz Jatuf, Ciudad Autonoma de Buenos Aire, Argentina

• Articles

• Books/Book Chapters

• Reviews

CDS members are highlighted in red

Articles

 J Med Libr Assoc.  2011 October; 99(4):313-317.

Preferred book formats in an academic medical center.

Hartel Lynda J.; Cheek Fern M.

[Brief Communications]

J Med Libr Assoc.  2012 April; 100 (2):98-103

Pay-per-view in interlibrary loan: a case study [in press]

Brown, Heather L.

Question: Can purchasing articles from publishers, be
a cost-effective method of interlibrary loan (ILL) for
libraries owing significant copyright royalties?

Setting: The University of Nebraska Medical Center’s McGoogan Library of Medicine provides the case study.

Method: Completed ILL requests that required copyright payment were identified for the first quarter of 2009. The cost of purchasing these articles from publishers was obtained from the publishers’ websites and compared to the full ILL cost. A pilot period of purchasing articles from the publisher was then conducted.

Results: The first-quarter sample data showed that approximately $500.00 could have been saved if the articles were purchased from the publisher. The pilot period and continued purchasing practice has resulted in significant savings for the library.

Conclusion: Purchasing articles directly from the publisher is a cost-effective method for libraries burdened with high copyright royalty payments.

J Med Libr Assoc.  2012 April 100(2):138-141.

Promoting and teaching the history of medicine in a medical school curriculum. [in press]

Shedlock James; Sims Ron; Kubilius Ramune.

[Brief Communications]

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 Journal of Electronic Resources in Medical Libraries, 2012,  9(1):65-76.

The National Academies Press free e-book collection as a resource for medical libraries.

Chiplock, Amanda; Ettien, A’Llyn

The National Academies Press (NAP) makes more than 4,000 medical and scientific titles freely available as electronic books, either as HTML text to be read on the web or as PDF documents to be downloaded. This article describes the NAP collection and interface, with attention to the process of searching, reading, and downloading titles, and special features of the NAP site. It finds the NAP collection to be an excellent resource for medical and scientific researchers and librarians, with an adequate search interface and specialized tools.

Journal of Electronic Resources in Medical Libraries, 2011, 8(4):311-324

Assessing user preferences to circulate iPads in an academic medical library.

Shutz, Susan; Halling, T.Derek; McKay, Becky

Librarians at Texas A&M University’s Medical Sciences Library gathered input from 100 patrons about a potential iPad circulation project. Participants were asked to explore an iPad loaded with a sample of resources and to complete a survey. Information collected included (1) patron’s profile, (2) preferred iPad check-out period, (3) how the iPad would be used, and (4) preferred applications. Results indicated high patron interest in iPad check-out for supporting classwork, searching the Internet, using apps, and reading e-books. Librarians used results to create an iPad check-out program. User feedback is instrumental to libraries developing services with mobile devices.

Journal of Electronic Resources in Medical Libraries, 2011, 8(4):404-11

Interview with Ramune K. Kubilius of Northwestern University.

Conner, Elizabeth (eProfiles column editor)

This interview with Ramune K. Kubilius of Northwestern University’s Galter Health Sciences Library describes her background and experience working as a collection development/special projects librarian.

Against the Grain, December 2011/January 2012, 23(6)

Trends in Health Sciences and Biomedical Sciences Information Provision

Special issue editor, Ramune K. Kubilius

Against the Grain, December 2011/January 2012, 23(6):1, 14,16.

Trends in health sciences and biomedical sciences information provision: issue introduction

Kubilius, Ramune K.

Ramune and her colleagues  have done an excellent job of catching  us up on the successes, issues, trends, challenges and opportunities for information provision in the health sciences and biomedical arenas.

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Against the Grain, December 2011/January 2012, 23(6):42,44

eBook access via a library-developed full-text search tool: a five year reflection.

Czechowski, Leslie; Tannery, Nancy

Early in 2005, the Health Sciences Library System (HSLS) at the University of Pittsburgh introduced a federated search tool for their collection of over 2,500 eBooks.

Books/Book Chapters

Fransen, Janet; Friedman-Shedlov, Lara; Theis-Mahon, Nicole; Traill, Stacie, Boudewyns, Deborah.  “Setting a direction for discovery: a phased approach.”

In: Planning and Implementing Resource Discovery Tools in Academic Libraries, edited by Mary Pagliero Popp and Diane Dallis, IGI Global, June 2012 [in press]

Reviews

Journal of Electronic Resources in Medical Libraries, 2011, 8(4):423-429

AccessSurgery™ : A Review

Ketterman, Elizabeth

AccessSurgery™ from McGraw-Hill is a multiformat database aimed at medical students, surgical residents, and practicing surgeons for both self-study and quick answers. The database contains animated and video-based surgical procedures, textbooks, an image bank, drug monographs, and curriculum materials.

The Charleston Advisor, January 2012, 13(3):19-21

Encyclopedia of Life Sciences

Kendall, Susan K.

Abstract:

The Encyclopedia of Life Sciences is an online, continually updated reference work consisting of peer-reviewed commissioned review articles in the life sciences. Having been around for a decade, this has grown into the only fairly comprehensive online reference that covers most major areas of biology, including history, ethics, and biography. The searchability is very basic, and a confusing aspect of the encyclopedia is that the full text articles are not themselves on the encyclopedia site but on the separate Wiley Online Library platform along with Wiley’s other products. The content is the strength of this work and would be useful particularly for biology students, both beginner and advanced. Contract provisions emphasize educational use and, while pricing is fairly steep, there are options for subscription or one-time purchase.

[reprinted from Tech Lister, March 21st 2012, with permission from Liz Lorbeer]

I’m often asked by instructors about students’ attitudes towards digital textbooks.  Many of the print textbooks used in a course are available in electronic format for either purchase or rental and offer attractive reasons for use such as cost, convenience and enhanced functionality.     Yet, anecdotally, instructors report mixed results on student satisfaction with using e-textbooks.  What I hear from our instructors is very similar to what I’ve read in the library science and higher education literature.

Students like the option of purchasing a required textbook in either print or electronic format, but left to decide on their own, many  still select the print textbook.  However, this decision can be swayed if the instructor shows the class the e-textbook on an electronic device.   This includes the instructor recommending, but not endorsing, sites where the e-textbook can be purchased, demonstrating popular web-based functionalities of the e-reader, and letting students know a print copy is available at the library should they need it.   (Make sure to communicate with your library liaison should you need a print copy of the textbook available in the Lister Hill Library Schools Collection).

To buy or to rent?  Many of the e-textbook web sites offer the ability to purchase chapters or rent an entire work for a prescribed amount of time.   This benefits both instructor and student if only a portion of the textbook is being assigned or the book is for a special topics course.  Many instructors seem reluctant to lengthen their required reading lists, but the flexibility in being able to rent or purchase select portions of a textbook allows for a cost-conscious approach for students.  Where the rental model may not be ideal is for the health sciences student that uses their fundamental textbooks later for preparing for licensing exams or as reference during residency.

What students generally dislike about e-textbooks is the perceived monotony of reading on an electronic device and poor functionality of the e-reader.  Both will strongly dictate whether the student will abandon the digital book for the print copy.   Students who have no choice but to acquire the e-textbook generally report less satisfaction with the course.  This is why selecting a textbook that is available for purchase in both print and electronic format is so important.

Recent studies, however,  show students are generally satisfied with e-textbooks and that overall satisfaction and use is increasing.  I believe the reason for the increase in satisfaction is two-fold.   First, electronic devices and e-readers are improving to support content distribution and secondly, instructors are becoming savvier in using technology in the e-learning environment.   By no means are digital textbooks better than their print counterpart.  Most e-textbooks still lack value-added, interactive features, such as image manipulation, short videos, and the ability to add customized content and this is where most instructors still voice their frustration.

Liz Lorbeer, Associate Director for Content Management

“What Does Electronic ILL Mean to You?”
Forum Notes
Prepared by Marie Bloechle
Electronic Acquisitions Librarian
University of North Texas Libraries

The Publisher-Vendor-Library Relations Interest Group (PVLR IG) forum panel discussion was sponsored by the Association for Library Collections & Technical Services (ALCTS) and took place at ALA Midwinter on Monday (23 January 2012) from 8 to 10 AM in room D168 of the Dallas Convention Center. The topic was, “What Does Electronic ILL Mean to You?”, and was well attended with between 60 and 100 attendees present.

Our panel of 4 experts included 2 librarians and 2 industry representatives. They were:

Nora Dethloff
Assistant Head of Information & Access Services
University of Houston
ndethloff@uh.edu

Cherié Weible
Acting Head of Central Access Services
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
cweible@illinois.edu

Katie Birch
Portfolio Director – Delivery Services
OCLC (UK) Ltd
katie.birch@oclc.org

Trina Wilson
Product Manager, MyiLibrary
Ingram Library Services
trina.wilson@ingramcontent.com

Kim Steinle, the PVLR co-chair, moderated the discussion and introduced the speakers.
Presentations were given in this order: Nora Dethloff, Cherié Weible, Katie Birch, and Trina Wilson.

Nora Dethloff
Nora started off with a simple rubric that her ILL team uses to determine how to handle an interlibrary loan request. They ask themselves: 1) do we own it, 2) can we lend it, and 3) where is it. Once these answers are determined, they print, scan, and send. The M.D. Anderson Library handles 20,000 ILL borrowing requests per year, which works out to more than 50 per day. They judge how well they are doing by their fill rate and their turn-around time. Because of this, they want to handle requests as quickly and as cheaply as possible; this means the less they handle a request, the better their stats are.
They track licenses using an Excel spreadsheet. It can be onerous determining ownership and license compliance for ILL, particularly on e-journal content. Licensing language is often convoluted and difficult to understand, so her ILL team will opt sometimes to avoid using e-journal content because it is more complicated than an “ordinary” print request. They basically consider there to be no ILL for e-books; even if it’s allowed (like with Springer), they don’t do it because of all the high-profile legal cases in the news involving academic libraries and copying, there’s a chilling effect on doing any ILL that isn’t the norm. She briefly mentioned Odyssey and the trusted sender in the ILLiad system.
Effectively, electronic ILL for Nora’s team is non-existent. They are still working in a print world. Even if they own an e-journal article, they have to print it, then scan it into an image, and then send that image as a PDF to their requestor. We as ILL librarians want an easier workflow and we wonder why we signed away those rights for electronic content.
Nora shared a list of her eILL wishes: 1) let’s figure out how to share e-books; 2) let’s transmit electronic content electronically; 3) publishers should respect our rights to copy content we own; 4) don’t make librarians jump through hoops; and 5) let’s have the same rules apply to everything, everywhere.

Cherié Weible
Cherié stated that the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is a net lender, with 65,954 lending and 25,723 borrowing requests. High volume is what’s important to her team, since they are handling so many requests. When they retrieve an OCLC ILL request, they print the article, scan it, and deliver it via Odyssey to the borrowing library. There are too many limitations on loaning e-content, whether it’s e-journal articles or portions of e-books. There are too many different types of e-reading devices, so lending any e-book content is problematic. Their current workflow is quite cumbersome, because of all the restrictions and decision trees. Cherié mentioned many of the same concerns that Nora brought up.
In regard to academic library users and ILL, they have different needs than public library patrons. They need longer loan periods than those provided for with the OverDrive system (only 3 weeks); they need the ability to renew the check-out easily; the purchase option for e-books should be expanded after the initial loan; they need the ability to export notes and marginalia, and not have it tied to a specific e-book; they prefer that e-books be in PDF format; and they need to be able to search and discover the e-content via their local library catalog and the Internet.

Katie Birch
Katie talked about the WorldCat; there are 7,000 member libraries worldwide and they handle 10 million requests per year. We would all like to get the user what they want in a timely way; in minutes and hours rather than days and weeks. She used an analogy with Cinderella; even though ILL is hidden away, everyone finds it much more attractive than Cinderella’s ugly sisters. Katie also mentioned that the interlibrary loan system was first conceived of in 1550 by several Italian libraries that wanted to loan materials to one another.
Electronic ILL to her means being able to really lend electronic content electronically without resorting to clunky systems of printing, scanning, and sending as an image. True e-ILL would allow for short-term access to e-resources and just-in-time purchasing, so that librarians can make quick decisions “on the hoof”.
OCLC’s Article Exchange provides a cloud-based document delivery tool. Large files can be uploaded to a dropbox in the cloud for lenders and users to access via URL and password. Once a file has been picked up for the first time, it will remain available on this site for 5 days. After 5 days, the file is removed. A file can be picked up a maximum of 5 times for each URL/password combination. Files that are never picked up are removed after 30 days. This allows for an easy, 1-2-3 step enhanced sharing of articles with built-in rights management. The license management tool provides clearly defined decision trees to indicate which collections and titles are licensed for ILL, and any instructions/restrictions for lending licensed content. Workflows for articles held electronically by a lending library are simplified.
Katie showed a slide with several milestones for OCLC’s Marketplace. Libraries will be able to make just in time, buy it decisions rather than placing an ILL with a lending library. By February 2012, staff will have the option to buy an item rather than place an ILL. By May 2012, they will be able to modify their ILL workflows to support buy-it. By August 2012, the ability to define the buy-it profile will be added to the service config. By November 2012, the buy-it profile will be implemented. By February/May 2013, buy-it will be added from the WMS ACQ module. In the future, Marketplace plans to also provide a workflow for an ebook ILL between Marketplace partners.

Trina Wilson
Trina talked about the MyiLibrary system. They have over 55K titles available for loan today and more publishers are joining. MyiLibrary provides: the e-book to loan to the patron, an easy-to-use interface for the library, and compensation to publishers for the ILL usage. Publishers see ILL as a lost sale, but don’t seem to realize it’s an upsell opportunity. Publishers are concerned about the “breaking” of the licensing model. The issue is complex.

NASIG 27th Annual Conference

Registration now open!

June 7-10, 2012
Nashville, Tennessee

NASIG’s 2012 conference will be held June 7th-10th in Nashville, TN, “Music City USA.” In recognition of our musical heritage, the theme of this year’s conference will be: Creating Harmony from Dis-Chord.

We will meet at the Sheraton Music City Hotel, which will provide free parking and free shuttles to and from the airport. Room rates for the hotel will be: single, double, or triple: $129.00 plus taxes; quad: $149 plus taxes. These rates will be offered for 3 days prior to and 3 days after the meeting dates based on availability so take a few days to plan a vacation in Nashville! (Note: we regret that hotel rooms are sold out on June 4th).

We encourage you to make your plans early. This is a very busy time for Nashville. The Country Music Festival will be selling tickets for concerts with many big name country music performers. Bonnaroo, a music and arts festival south of Nashville, will be offering many activities and performances. There will lots to choose from during this week in Nashville. Please see the official visitors and tourism site for more information.  If you are within driving distance, having a car will give you additional options to go out and about. If you plan to fly, book your flights early!

Next year’s conference will be held June 6-9, 2013 in Buffalo, NY.

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Welcome to Joint Conference on Digital Libraries 2012

The 2012 conference will be held June 10-14 in Washington, DC

Hosted by The George Washington University

#preserving #linking #using #sharing

The ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries is a major international forum focusing on digital libraries and associated technical, practical, organizational, and social issues. JCDL encompasses the many meanings of the term “digital libraries”, including (but not limited to) new forms of information institutions and organizations; operational information systems with all manner of digital content; new means of selecting, collecting, organizing, distributing, and accessing digital content; theoretical models of information media, including document genres and electronic publishing; and theory and practice of use of managed content in science and education.

Call for Papers

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Library Assessment Conference

Building Effective, Sustainable, Practical Assessment

Submit Your Proposals – April 5 Drop-Dead Deadline

The Association of Research Libraries, the University of Virginia Library, and the University of Washington Libraries are pleased to announce the 2012 Library Assessment Conference: Building Effective, Sustainable, Practical Assessment, to be held in Charlottesville, Virginia from October 29-31, 2012. The conference goal is to build and further a vibrant library assessment community by bringing together interested practitioners and researchers who have responsibility or interest in the broad field of library assessment. The conference provides a mix of invited speakers, contributed papers and posters, and workshops that stimulate discussion and provide workable ideas for effective, practical and sustainable library assessment. This biennial conference builds on the success of the first three conferences held in Charlottesville (2006), Seattle (2008), and Baltimore (2010).

Proposals are due April 2 and registration will open late May, 2012.

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We are gearing up for a great meeting
November 7-10, 2012.

Can’t wait to
see you there!

http://www.katina.info/conference/

The 2012 Call for Papers and Call for Preconferences are now online!

Deadlines:
Call for Preconferences – April 6, 2012
Call for Papers – June 15, 2012

Each year hundreds of librarians, vendors, and publishers make a pilgrimage to the Holy City. They are not headed to the Mediterranean, but to the southeast coast of the U S — to Charleston, SC.

The Charleston Conference is an informal annual gathering of librarians, publishers, electronic resource managers, consultants, and vendors of library materials in Charleston, SC, in November, to discuss issues of importance to them all. It is designed to be a collegial gathering of individuals from different areas who discuss the same issues in a non-threatening, friendly, and highly informal environment. Presidents of companies discuss and debate with library directors, acquisitions librarians, reference librarians, serials librarians, collection development librarians, and many, many others. Begun in 1980, the Charleston Conference has grown from 20 participants in 1980 to over 1,400 in 2011. Due to the amount of growth we have experienced, the Conference was held in two hotels for the first time in 2005: the Francis Marion and the Embassy Suites, both in downtown Charleston. We are now in three hotels (the Francis Marion, the Embassy Suites Historic, and the Courtyard Marriott Historic) plus the College of Charleston Addlestone Library for our concurrent sessions!

The Conference does not have exhibits and is not attached to any professional organization, although a separately managed Vendor Showcase and Juried Product Development Forums take place at the Conference (for more information, click here).

Submitted by Ramune Kubilius, 2013 NPC Section Council Liaison

May 1 is the paper and poster submission deadline for the 2013 meeting. Please consider submitting a paper to one of the sessions in which CDS is involved, or any other. More information can be found at:
http://www.mlanet.org/am/am2013/

The year 2013 will provide a unique opportunity to explore the global interdependency of health information at a federated international meeting incorporating the 2013 Annual Meeting and Exhibition of the Medical Library Association (MLA ’13), the 11th International Congress on Medical Librarianship (ICML), the 7th International Conference of Animal Health Information Specialists (ICAHIS), and the 6th International Clinical Librarian Conference (ICLC). The conference theme is: “One Health: Information in an Interdependent World”.

CDS has a Planning Committee. Because of the international, federated nature of the 2013 meeting and the long planning cycle, incoming CDS chair, Cecilia Botero, chaired the committee and was the lead planner for the first phase of planning (August 2011 – March 2012). From March 2012 – May 2013, incoming chair elect, Susan Kendall will chair the committee and serve as lead planner. Program Committee members include Deborah Blecic, Nadia Laila, and Christine Whittaker.

Submitted by Martha Earl, CDS Treasurer

Annual MLA Section Financial Report For January 1 to December 31, 2011__