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Please join us for the ALCTS Acquisitions Section Acquisitions Organization
and Management Committee Program:

What's the Big Deal?  The Impact of Consortial Purchasing on the
Acquisitions Process

When:  Saturday, June 21, 2003
Time:  8:30 am - 10:00 am
Where: Toronto Colony Hotel, Colony Ballroom East

Our experienced panel of librarians will engage in lively discussion on the
topic of how the job of acquisitions has changed as a result of the
increase in consortial purchases and vendor/publisher bundling of journal
titles. They will discuss their own experiences with big deal licensing,
and what the benefits and drawbacks of the big deal have been for
librarians and libraries.

Moderator: Cindy Clennon, Contract Coordinator, Center for Library
Initiatives, Committee on Institutional Cooperation
Panelists:  Trisha Davis, The Ohio State University Libraries
Warren Holder, University of Toronto Libraries
Cynthia Shelton, University of California, Los Angeles Library

The committee wishes to recognize Kluwer Academic Publishers for its
generous support of this program.

For information contact:
Leslie O'Brien
ALCTS AS AOM Committee chair
Director of Technical Services
Virginia Tech
lobrien@vt.edu