(via Margaret Chambers, CARLI)
Register for the 4th Annual Great Lakes Resource Sharing Conference by Friday, May 26, to take advantage of the early registration fee. The $95 registration fee will increase to $125 after May 26. The registration fee includes all sessions, as well as the reception on Thursday and breakfast and lunch on Friday.
Schedule in Brief
Thursday, June 8
•12:30 to 1:30 PM – OCLC Resource Sharing Update
•1:45 to 3:30 PM (including break) – lightning rounds
•3:30 to 4:30 PM – “The Contemporary Academic Library Resource Sharing Mission: Fragmentation or Evolution?”
•5:00 to 6:00 PM – opening reception and trivia contest
•6:00 PM and later – dine-arounds or dinner on your own
Friday, June 9 (8:00 AM to 3:45 PM)
•keynote address: “History Has Its Eyes on You: Lighthouse and Libraries Weathering Storms of Change”-Corey Seeman, Director of Kresge Library Services (Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor) and manager of A Library Writer’s Blog
•three tracks of concurrent sessions
•breakfast, lunch, and breaks included
Concurrent Sessions
•”CARLI’s Patron Driven Acquisitions Project for Print Materials: A Review of a Consortial Project”
•”Strength in Numbers: Demonstrating Value During Times of Change”
•”Strengthening Workflows: Developing an Improved Staffing Model to Weather the Winds of Change”
•”Trying to Jump-Start Collaborative Collection Development: Finding Simple Methods for Effective Cooperation”
•And many more! See the conference website for a full list.
Join your resource sharing partners in harnessing the winds of change!