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SAGE LAUNCHES LIBRARY TRAVEL GRANT FOR THE ALPSP INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE

SAGE has announced it will be sponsoring a librarian place at this year’s Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers (ALPSP) International conference. The annual event takes place this year from 14-16th September at Heythrop Park near Oxford.

As the world’s leading independent academic and professional publisher, SAGE has supported the ALPSP conference as silver sponsor since its launch in 2008. This new travel grant will offer a free place at the conference for a librarian or information professional, including entry to the ALPSP awards dinner, travel within the UK and accommodation for one person.

“The ALPSP conference has quickly become a major fixture in the publishing calendar, providing a great opportunity to meet and network. Librarians who have attended this conference in the past have added greatly to the formal and informal discussions and we feel that it is vital for there to be constructive dialogue between publishers and librarians,” said Ian Russell, Chief Executive, ALPSP.

Steven Sharp, Resource Acquisition Team Leader at University of Leeds was an attendee of the 2010 conference. He said, “I was a speaker at the 2010 ALPSP Annual Conference. It was a great opportunity to engage with publishers on a face-to-face basis, to share ideas and concerns, and to explore ways of moving the scholarly publishing agenda forward in a mutually beneficial way during difficult economic times.”

SAGE will be running a competition to win the sponsored place, with entries submitted either via Twitter or email. To enter, librarians must answer the following question in 140 characters or less:

Question: Why should librarians be talking to publishers in 2011?

“In the current economic climate it is more important than ever that publishers and librarians have open dialogue on how we can work together,” said Clive Parry, Global Marketing Director, SAGE. “We have found the conference to be a must-attend event over the past three years and are delighted to be supporting ALPSP in facilitating this free place.”

Completed answers should be sent to @SAGElibraryNews tagged with #SAGEALPSP or email to events@sagepub.co.uk by the 27th May 2011. Further terms and conditions can be found at www.sagepub.co.uk/alpsp2011.

For more information about the conference please visit: http://www.alpsp.org/ngen_public/default.asp?ID=393

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