ACRL New England: ERM Interest Group Call for Proposals:
Managing E-Resources to Measure Value in Academic Libraries

 

Focusing on Electronic Resource Management, ERMIG is a special interest group (SIG) of the ACRL New England Chapter of the Association of College and Research Libraries (http://www.acrlnec.org/).

 

The 2014 ERMIG program is Wednesday, April 16 from 9:30 AM - 12:30 PM at the Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences Griffin Building.

 

*** CALL FOR PRESENTATION PROPOSALS ***

 

WHAT IS IT?

* A free, one-day program:  Managing E-Resources to Measure Value in Academic Libraries

 

*  Wednesday, April 16 from 9:30 AM - 12:30 PM at the Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences Griffin Building

 

* A thought-provoking program with opportunities to network and share with colleagues.

 

* For past program information, visit the ERMIG site at: http://serig.acrlnec.org/content/programs.

 

WHAT TOPICS?

 

The ERMIG co-chairs seek presentation proposals related to any aspect of e-resource management that illuminates the value of e-collections for an academic library. Examples include, but are certainly not limited to:

 

•             Collection Assessment

•             Collection Analysis

•             Tools for Analysis

•             Is the Big Deal a Good Deal?

•             Organizational Structures for Strategic Collection Assessment

•             Workflows for Successful Collection Analysis and Assessment

•             Collection Analysis Best Practices Applied

 

The DEADLINE for submitting a proposal is Monday, March 10, 2014.

 

Presenters will be notified by March 14, 2014.

 

To submit a proposal, please complete this Google form: http://tinyurl.com/ermig

(Note: A Google account is *not* required to submit a presentation proposal)

 

The ERMIG co-chairs coordinating this event are:

 

Kim Maxwell, MIT

kmaxwell@mit.edu

 

Galadriel Chilton, University of Connecticut

galadriel.chilton@lib.uconn.edu

Kim Maxwell

Electronic Resources Management Librarian

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

MIT Libraries, Room 14E-210

77 Massachusetts Ave.

Cambridge, MA 02139-4307

Phone: +1-617-253-7028

Fax:   +1-617-253-2464

Email: kmaxwell@mit.edu