Hot Topics Discussion Group (RUSA CODES)
This session is focusing on collection assessment in the era of "return on investment." Librarians will talk about its increasing importance in tight economic times and exchange information on the...
View ArticleRecreational reading collections: lease or own?
If your institution maintains a collection of popular fiction and nonfiction, do you lease the collection or do you permanently acquire it and what type of fund do you use?
View ArticleHot Topics Discussion Group
Timezone:US/Pacific (-7)RUSA CODES Hot Topics Discussion Group focuses on very current issues in collection development. The specific topic for this conference has not been selected. More information...
View ArticleReaders' Advisory for Town AND Gown: Academic and Public Library Partnerships...
Timezone:US/Pacific (-7)Long a core service of public libraries, the expectation of readers' advisory in college and university libraries is a growing trend. Come hear academic librarians describing...
View ArticleThe E-book Elephant in the Room: Determining What’s Relevant and Effective...
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View ArticleReference Publishing Discussion Forum: Are Users Finding Our Online Reference...
Libraries spend a great deal of money on quality online online reference resources, in the hopes that they will be useful to our communities. But are they being used? How do users discover reference...
View ArticleMidwinter Book and Media Awards Reception (RUSA CODES)
Celebrate the best fiction, non-fiction and reference titles of the year! RUSA's expert readers' advisory committees will unveil their choices for the Collection Development and Evaluation Section's...
View ArticleNOW RECRUITING: 2014 ANNUAL CONFERENCE NMRT RRS VOLUNTEERS!
(Kindly forgive cross-posting.)The NMRT Resume Review Service Committee is recruiting resume reviewers and booth greeters for the ALA 2014 Annual in Las Vegas who are willing to volunteer to greet...
View ArticleHOW’S YOUR RESUME AND COVER LETTER?
(Kindly forgive cross-posting.)The New Members Round Table offers a free Resume Review Service, Saturday, June 28 and Sunday, June 29, from 9:00 – 5:00, in the ALA Joblist Placement Center at the 2014...
View ArticleNMRT Mentoring Committee Seeking More Mentors
Kindly forgive the cross posting! Do you find yourself wishing that someone would have been there to teach you all that you now know? Would you like to walk alongside a new librarian as they enter the...
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