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Attention acquisitions and serials librarians, technical services
heads, library administrators, book and serial vendors and
publishers:

For those of you who like to make your San Francisco travel plans
early, please mark your new 1997 calendars with this ALA ALCTS
advanced acquisitions preconference:

What:  "Rethinking and Transforming Acquisitions Preconference"
        ALCTS Business of Acquisitions Advanced Institute

Where: ALA Annual Meeting San Francisco, California

When:  Thursday, June 26-Friday, June 27, 1997
         [1.5 days, ending noon on Friday]

Plenary speakers:
       Michael Keller        (Stanford University)
       Carol Pitts Diedrichs (Ohio State University)
       Clifford Lynch        (University of California)

Workshops:
      Tools for Achieving Consensus
      EDI:  The BISAC/SISAC Perspectives
      Electronic License Prices:  The New Frontier
      Electronic License Policy:  The Eternal Frontier
      Managing Human Resources in Acquisitions
      Outsourcing Acquisitions

Informal Discussion Groups:
      Acquisitions Web Sites
      Acquisitions/Document Delivery Partnership
      Life-Long Learning for Acquisitions
      Tables Turned: Acquisitions Provides Outsourcing Services
      Vendor Evaluations in the Outsourcing Environment
      Getting Published

Costs:       ALCTS members: $135
             ALA members (who are not also members of ALCTS): $185
             ALA/ALCTS non-members: $235

Registration will begin in January 1997.  Contact Yvonne McLean at
the ALCTS Office for further information:  (800)545-2433, ext. 5032
or yvonne.mclean@ala.org.  Complete program information will be
available soon on a website -- we'll announce the web address when
the site is ready!

                            Co-Chairs
     Cindy Hepfer                         Julia Gammon
     hslcindy@acsu.buffalo.edu            jgammon@uakron.edu