50th Anniversary News
Contact: Charles Wilt
Executive Director, ALCTS
312-280-5030
For Immediate Release
February 16, 2007
ALCTS announces poster session for 50th conference
CHICAGO - The Association for Library Collections & Technical Services (ALCTS) seeks proposals for a poster session to be held during the 50th Anniversary Conference, June 20 and 21, 2007, in Washington, D.C. The poster session will be held Wednesday, June 20.
The ALCTS Conference, "Interactive Futures: A National Conference on the Transformation of Library Collections & Technical Services," will engage attendees in a thought-provoking, open, and participatory exchange on the transformation of our work and our profession.
In keeping with the conference theme, poster session proposals should focus on a transformative change or an innovation in any area of library collections or technical services work for monographs, serials, or electronic resources, whether in collection development and management, cataloging, acquisitions, or preservation. Poster sessions may document a change that has been implemented, or may suggest an innovation or describe a trend likely to affect change in the philosophy or practice of our profession.
This poster session offers a unique opportunity for beginning career librarians and veteran librarians, for library support staff, and for students, to address the future in which all attendees will work in a most stimulating setting. More than 250 attendees are expected; featured conference speakers are library leaders and provocative thinkers like Susan Nutter, David Lankes, Stephen Abram and Richard Lanham.
The deadline for poster session submissions is Monday, April 2. The ALCTS conference committee will review all submissions for appropriateness of theme, for quality of content, and for quality of presentation. Applicants will be notified by May 1. Please see the ALCTS 50th Anniversary web site for more information on the conference, and for a submission form for poster session applications. If you have questions, please contact Bob Nardini (email: bnardini@couttsinfo.com telephone: 603-340-4378)).
Registration for the ALCTS 50th Anniversary Conference, "Interactive Futures: A National Conference on the Transformation of Library Collections & Technical Services," is now open. You can register through the ALCTS 50th Anniversary web site at www.ala.org/alcts50. Registration is open to anyone interested in charting the future course of library collections and technical services.
ALCTS is a division of the American Library Association.
Contact: Charles Wilt
Executive Director, ALCTS
312-280-5030
For Immediate Release
October 3, 2006
ALCTS 2007 President’s Program Features Peter Morville
CHICAGO - Peter Morville, author of “Ambient Findability” and president and founder of Semantic Studios, will speak at the 2007 Association for Library Collections & Technical Services (ALCTS) President’s Program entitled “Libraries And Findability: Elegant Hacks For Our Future Description: A talk by Peter Morville.”
The ALCTS President’s Program will be held Monday, June 25, 10:30 a.m. during the ALA Annual Conference in Washington, DC. It is the final event in the ALCTS 50th Anniversary Celebration.
Peter Morville is widely recognized as a father of the information architecture field. He serves as a passionate advocate for the critical role that findability plays in defining the user experience. His company, Semantic Studios, is a leading information architecture, user experience and findability consultancy.
Morville’s latest book, “Ambient Findability,” (O'Reilly, 2005) explores search, wayfinding, marketing, information interaction, literacy, librarianship, authority and culture at the crossroads of ubiquitous computing and the Internet. He is also co-author (with Louis Rosenfeld) of the best-selling book, “Information Architecture for the World Wide Web” (O’Reilly, 2002, 2nd ed.), named "Best Internet Book of 1998" by Amazon and "The Most Useful Book on Web Design on the Market" by usability guru Jakob Nielsen.
He holds an advanced degree in library and information science from the University of Michigan's School of Information, where he now serves on the faculty.
An internationally distinguished speaker, Morville provides keynotes and seminars on such topics as user experience, knowledge management, information architecture, and findability.
His work has been featured in many publications including Business Week, The Economist, Fortune, MSNBC, and The Wall Street Journal. Peter blogs at findability.org. Visit his web site at: www.semanticstudios.com
The 2007 ALCTS President’s Program is made possible in part through the generous sponsorship of Elsevier.
ALCTS is a division of the American Library Association.
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Contact: Charles Wilt
Executive Director, ALCTS
312-280-5030
For Immediate Release
October 3, 2006
ALCTS Announces Midwinter Symposium for Seattle
The Association for Library Collections & Technical Services (ALCTS) announces its 2007 Midwinter Symposium for Friday, January 19, 2007 in Seattle: “Definitely Digital: An Exploration of the Future of Knowledge on the Occasion of the 50th Anniversary of ALCTS.” “Definitely Digital” is supported by the generous sponsorship of Amazon.com.
“Definitely Digital” examines significant changes in scholarly communication, library services, collections, and staffing created by the digital environment. The symposium speakers discuss scholarship in the digital age, new communication models, the future of cooperative technical services and enabling technologies, and the training and education of staff working with digital collections. Statements, intentionally controversial, and intended to evoke discussion from the panelists and stimulate audience participation will be available in advance on the ALCTS web site.
Dr. James Hilton, Vice President and Chief of Information Officer, University of Virginia
explores “Scholarship in the Digital Age: Opportunities and Challenges” as the keynote speaker.
Featured speakers include: Lorcan Dempsey, Vice President and Chief Strategist, OCLC on “Moving to the Network Level: Networks Change Structures”; Meg Bellinger Associate University Librarian for Integrated Library Systems and Technical Services, Yale University, on “Library Collections and Technical Services in the Digital Age: Perspectives and Predictions for the Profession at the Half-Century Mark”; and Greg Tananbaum, author, consultant, and former President, Berkeley Electronic Press, on “Scholarly Communication 2.Oh: New Models of Publishing and Library Services”.
Brian Schottlaender, University of California-San Diego, will lead a stellar panel in a discussion of the challenge statements. Panelists include Tom Clareson, Program Director for New Initiatives, PALINET; David Nuzzo, Head Acquisitions, SUNY-Buffalo Library; Oliver Pesch, Chief Strategist of Electronic Resources, EBSCO Information Services; and Robert Wolven, Director of Library Systems and Bibliographic Control, Columbia University Library.
Register through the ALA Midwinter Registration form.
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