[Eril-l] ALCTS webinar: Acquisitions Work: From Competencies to Competence

[ALCTS-CE Announce]

*Cross posted to multiple lists*

ALCTS webinar: Acquisitions Work: From Competencies to Competence

Date: Wednesday, September 25, 2019

All webinars are one hour in length and begin at 11 AM Pacific, noon
Mountain, 1 PM Central, and 2 PM Eastern time.

Description: In the Core Competencies for Acquisitions Professionals
approved by the ALCTS Board of Directors in 2018, it is noted that “Lack of
training opportunities is a significant challenge in the field, with many
acquisitions professionals learning locally developed practices on the job
and through continuing education offerings by professional associations.”
This webinar is meant to address that challenge with a straightforward
introduction that connects competencies, practice, and practitioners.

Beginning by connecting Core Competencies to position descriptions and to
individual position duties, presenters and attendees will develop training
plans that are attentive to the needs of new hires. We will discuss the
needs and preferences of trainees, paying attention to modes of delivery
and how best to address affective aspects of professional development that
are not as simple as “skills-development”. We will also specifically
address the training and documentation responsibilities that organizations
and supervisors have to the new workers in their organizations.

We will conclude with a meditation on how creating individualized holistic
and humane training programs can address the community-wide lack of
training opportunities, and a call to action to identify and create those
training opportunities.

Learning outcomes:

At the end of the webinar, participants will be able to

   1.

   Connect ALCTS Core Competencies for Acquisitions Professionals to
   individual acquisitions positions
   2.

   Identify the obligations of their organization to incoming staff members
   3.

   Understand the importance of training using various modes of delivery,
   and the importance of addressing affective aspects of professional
   development
   4.

   Develop training plans to address skill gaps, identify existing training
   opportunities, and identify training opportunities that need to be
   developed for the community.

Who should attend?

Early Career Acquisitions Librarians; Acquisitions and Technical Services
Managers

Presenters:

Lindsay Cronk (lcronk at library.rochester.edu) is Head of Collection
Strategies at the University of Rochester. Lindsay is responsible for
developing and executing high-level collection strategies that include
consortial collaborations, budget forecasting and management, and scholarly
communications advocacy, while managing the practical matters of daily
collection development and acquisitions work. Lindsay has presented and
published on topics including data visualization for collection assessment,
vendor partnership management, and feminist leadership.

Rachel Fleming (rachel-fleming at utc.edu) works on affordable course
materials, scholarly communication, and collection assessment as
Collections Initiatives Librarian at the University of Tennessee at
Chattanooga. Fleming has over ten years of experience in library technical
services including collection development, collection management, serials,
and acquisitions. Fleming’s research interests center around the affective
aspects of library technical services, including intra-library
communication, development of professional identity and leadership skills.

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Registration Fees:  ALCTS Member $43 ; Non-member $59 ; Group rate $129

How to register:

Complete the individual webinar online registration form
<http://www.ala.org/Template.cfm?Section=olweb&Template=/Conference/ConferenceList.cfm&ConferenceTypeCode=X>
(requires logging in). Sessions are listed by date.

For additional information, please go to the following website:

http://www.ala.org/alcts/confevents/upcoming/webinar/092519

or

Contact us to register:

Call 1-800-545-2433 and press 5 to reach our customer service
representatives or

Register by mail
<http://www.ala.org/alcts/files/confevents/upcoming/webinar/alcts_webinar_reg.pdf>
for the session you would like to attend. (If you receive an error message
after clicking the "register by mail" link, right-click the link and save
the form to your computer.)

ALCTS webinars are recorded and registrants receive a link to the recording
shortly following the live event.

Contact

For questions about registration, contact ALA Registration by calling
1-800-545-2433 and press 5 or email registration at ala.org. For all other
questions or comments related to the webinars, contact Megan Dougherty,
Program Officer, ALCTS Continuing Education at 1-800-545-2433, ext. 5038 or
mdougherty at ala.org.

Posted on behalf of the ALCTS Continuing Education Committee.
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