Dear Colleagues,

The ALCST Acquisitions Section tasked its Education Committee with developing a draft document of core competencies for acquisitions professionals. The committee has worked to identify key skills and behaviors that enable successful performance of the acquisitions role in libraries.

The AS Education Committee would now like to invite input from the broader community on this draft competencies document. The committee is particularly seeking comments from professionals in non-academic settings.

The document draft, and also the page at which to leave your comments, may be found here: http://bit.ly/2HXZiPa

We encourage everyone to submit feedback by *April 1*.

Thank you in advance for your thoughtful feedback.

Sincerely,

L. Angie Ohler on behalf of the ALCTS Acquisitions Section Education Committee:

Susan Rathbun-Grubb, chair (University of South Carolina), Maria Collins (past member, North Carolina State University), Josephine Crawford (Member, Kansas State University), Kay Granskog (past member, Michigan State University), Dracine Hodges (past member, Duke University), (Stacey A. Marien (Member, American University), L. Angie Ohler (Member, University of Maryland, College Park), Christee Pascale (Member, University of South Carolina), Trey Shelton (Member, University of Florida), Laura A. Sill (Member, University of Notre Dame)

L. Angie Ohler

Director of Collection Services

McKeldin Library, Room 2209

7649 Library Lane

University of Maryland

College Park, MD 20742

301 405-9308 (phone)

301 314-1200 (fax)

lohler@umd.edu

ORCID ID: orcid.org/0000-0002-3832-7573