[InetBib] Call for Papers Acquistions and Collection Development WLIC 2013

["Dr. Regine Schmolling" <schmolling@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

*CALL FOR PAPERS*

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*World Library and Information Congress 2013*

*Acquisitions and Collection Development Section*

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79^th IFLA General Congress and Assembly

*Singapore *

*17-23 August 2013*

Conference Theme:Future Libraries: Infinite Possibilities

http://www.ifla.org/acquisition-collection-development

The Section's 2 hour Open Session is: *Collaboration in Collections: 
Libraries, Users and Information Providers *

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Building and maintaining relevant collections requires innovation in 
these challenging times as libraries establish a greater digital 
footprint and explore different channels of scholarly communication and 
information delivery.Working together with publishers and vendors to 
find ways to meet the diverse expectations and needs of library users 
demands new models of communication, programming, organizational 
infrastructure, reliance on multiple and changing technologies, and 
accompanying services. This Open Session will emphasize how innovation 
and collaboration within libraries, among users and with the publishing 
and provider community will advance the role of collections.

Suggested subthemes, with a focus on innovation and best practices for 
potential speakers to consider:

·Responding to users' expectations -- how & when

·Role of Open Access

·Impact of eResources -- challenges with acquisitions, licensing, 
pricing, perpetuity, use

·Cooperative collection development

·Resource relevance

·Relationships with information providers

·Collection assessment

·Selection and de-selection

·Discovery of collections

·Promoting collections

The section invites speakers from all library environments (academic, 
public, government, school, special) who can address any of these themes 
in a 15 minute presentation at the WLIC meeting.The goal is to create a 
diverse program of 4-5 speakers representing libraries from different 
parts of the world who have different experiences to share. Proposed 
papers must be original and not have been published elsewhere.It is 
hoped that all presenters will be able to prepare a formal paper, as 
well as a PowerPoint presentation, however IFLA realizes that it may be 
impractical to require that every speaker prepare a formal paper and 
PowerPoint slides.If that is the case, those speakers must prepare a 
substantial abstract, including references with URLs and bibliographies 
to accompany their presentation.All selected papers will have abstracts 
and links to full papers on the conference website.Presentations can be 
made in any of the official IFLA languages: Arabic, Chinese, English, 
French, German, Spanish, Russian, but an accompanying translation of all 
papers into English must be provided.Discussion at the conclusion of the 
presentations will be highly encouraged.

*Important Dates with which to comply:*

*31 January 2013* -- Deadline for submitting 300 word proposals for 
papers and presentations, or substantial abstracts of 500 words if no 
paper will be prepared, plus a very brief biographical statement of 
speaker(s).Information should include: title of presentation; subthemes 
that it addresses, abstract, all authors, noting likely presenter; 
institutional affiliations; contact information, including all eMail 
addresses

*28 February 2013* -- Announcement of final program and communication 
with all who submit proposals.IFLA HQ notified of outcome from call.

*1 May 2013* -- Deadline for submission of final paper.Papers should be 
no more than 3,000 words and papers can be submitted in any of the 
official IFLA languages: Arabic, Chinese, Chinese, French, German, 
Spanish, Russian, but an accompanying translation of all papers into 
English must be provided.Attempts will be made to provide translations 
into other official languages.

*30 June 2013* -- Deadline for all PowerPoint presentations from Speakers

*June/July 2013* -- All speakers will be notified of the time of the 
program.

All proposals will be reviewed by a jury composed of members of the 
Acquisitions and Collection Development Section.

Please note that unfortunately, there are no funds to assist with your 
attendance at WLIC 2013.Please also note that in accordance with IFLA's 
Open Access Statement, all papers that are presented at the WLIC 2013 
should be available under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 license.

All submissions and any questions should be sent via eMail in a MS Word 
attachment to Julia Gelfand (jgelfand@xxxxxxx <mailto:jgelfand@xxxxxxx>) 
by 31 January 2013.The receipt of all submissions will be acknowledged.

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Dr. Regine Schmolling
Leiterin der Abtlg. Kulturwissenschaften
Head of the Dept. of Cultural Studies, Subject Specialist
Fachref. Romanistik, Allg. u. vergl. Spr.- u. Litwiss.,Kulturwissenschaft,
Ethnologie, Orientalistik, Slavistik
Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Bremen
Postfach 330160
28331 Bremen
Tel.: +49 (0)421-218-59560
Fax: +49 (0) 421-218-59610
schmolling@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

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