Midwinter Symposium on Managing Electronic Resources Announced

The American Library Association's Association of Library Collections and Technical Services (ALA ALCTS) Serials Section will once again sponsor an all-day symposium on managing electronic resources just prior to ALA Midwinter in San Diego. The title of the symposium, to be held Friday, January 9, 2004, is "Taming the Electronic Tiger: Effective Management of Electronic Resources."

"Taming the Electronic Tiger" will focus on the management of electronic resources, examining technical as well as administrative matters. The symposium will be relevant to librarians in all kinds and sizes of libraries and to technical, public services, and collection development librarians, IT specialists, and library administrators.

Plenary session speakers include:

• Friedemann Weigel (Harrassowitz) will address standards, in particular the NISO initiative on the exchange of serials subscription information as it relates to electronic journals.
• George Machovec (Colorado Alliance) will speak about linking and third party services.
• Richard Boss (independent library technology consultant) will talk about ILS solutions for managing e-resources.
• Phil Davis (Cornell University) will discuss the management of use statistics and Project COUNTER.

Two concurrent breakout sessions will feature:

• Tim Bucknall (University of North Carolina, Greensboro) will speak about public service issues.
• Norm Medeiros (Haverford College) will talk about managing e-resources in a smaller institution that is part of a consortium.

A vendor showcase will also be included.

Co-chairs of the symposium are Pamela Bluh (Thurgood Marshall Law Library, University of Maryland; pbluh@umaryland.edu) and Cindy Hepfer (Health Sciences Library, State University of New York at Buffalo; HSLcindy@buffalo.edu). Registration information and further details about the meeting will appear on the ALCTS Web site in the fall.

ALCTS wishes to thank Ebsco Subscription Services (Red Bank) for their support of the symposium.