<div dir="ltr"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:10pt" id="docs-internal-guid-3526a0e0-fcfb-7f09-6f22-f7972aa8d8f2"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">*Apologies in advance for duplicate postings.*</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:10pt"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:bold;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">ALCTS Web Course: Fundamentals of Acquisitions</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:10pt"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:bold;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"><br class=""></span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:bold;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Session 3: July 20 - August 28, 2015</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">This six-week online course is a basic primer for library acquisitions concepts common to all library materials formats. It covers:</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">·</span><span style="font-size:9.33333px;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">         </span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Goals and methods of acquiring monographs and serials in all formats;</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">·</span><span style="font-size:9.33333px;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">         </span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Theoretical foundations and workflows of basic acquisitions functions;</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">·</span><span style="font-size:9.33333px;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">         </span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Financial management of library collections budgets;</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">·</span><span style="font-size:9.33333px;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">         </span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Relationships among acquisitions librarians, library booksellers, subscription agents, and publishers.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:10pt"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"><br class=""></span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">This course provides a broad overview of the operations involved in acquiring materials after the selection decision is made.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:10pt"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">In FOA, we distinguish between collection development, which involves the selection of materials for the library; and acquisitions, which orders, receives, and pays for those materials. In many libraries, selecting and acquiring materials may be done in the same department—in the smallest libraries perhaps even by the same person. In larger libraries, selection may be done by a collection development department and/or designated subject specialists, while a separate department acquires the selected materials.  In essence, acquisitions is a business operation, bringing materials into the library and licensing access to library collections and resources.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:10pt"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:bold;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Who Should Attend</span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">:  As a fundamentals course, FOA is tailored for librarians and paraprofessionals new to the acquisitions field; and librarians and support staff from other library units and library school or LSSC students who want to know more about acquisitions.  Although FOA focuses on the acquisition of monographs in various physical formats, it covers key components of acquisition and licensing processes for all library materials, in all formats, in all types of libraries.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:10pt"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">This course is one-third of the Collection Management Elective course approved by the Library Support Staff Certification Program (LSSCP).</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:10pt"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:rgb(48,48,48);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Because success in acquisitions depends on ability to collaborate, negotiate, and be flexible to work out win-win solutions with others, this course includes collaborative and social elements.</span></p><h2 dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:18pt;margin-bottom:4pt"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:rgb(48,48,48);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:bold;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Instructors</span></h2><ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:rgb(48,48,48);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:rgb(48,48,48);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:bold;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Betsy Redman,</span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:rgb(48,48,48);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"> Acquisitions Serials Librarian, Arizona State University</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:rgb(48,48,48);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:rgb(48,48,48);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:bold;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Eleanor Cook,</span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:rgb(48,48,48);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"> Assistant Director for Discovery & Technical Services Academic Library Services, East Carolina University</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:rgb(48,48,48);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:rgb(48,48,48);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:bold;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Michelle Flinchbaugh,</span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:rgb(48,48,48);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"> Acquisitions and Digital Scholarship Services Librarian, UMBC Library</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:rgb(48,48,48);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:rgb(48,48,48);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:bold;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Donna Smith,</span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:rgb(48,48,48);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"> Assistant Head of Technical Services, Northern Kentucky University</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:rgb(48,48,48);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:rgb(48,48,48);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:bold;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Jennifer Arnold</span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:rgb(48,48,48);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">, Director, Library Services, Central Piedmont Community College</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:rgb(48,48,48);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:rgb(48,48,48);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:bold;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Kate Kasimor</span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:rgb(48,48,48);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"> is Technical Services Librarian at Higher Colleges of Technology (United Arab Emirates).</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:rgb(48,48,48);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:rgb(48,48,48);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:bold;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Kate B. Moore</span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:rgb(48,48,48);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"> is Coordinator of Electronic Resources at Indiana University Southeast.</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:rgb(48,48,48);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:10pt"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:rgb(48,48,48);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:bold;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Christina Hennessey</span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:rgb(48,48,48);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"> is Cataloging Librarian at Loyola Marymount University in California.</span></p></li></ul><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:10pt"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:bold;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Registration Fees</span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">:  $109 ALCTS Member and  $139 Non-member</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:10pt"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">For additional details, registration links, and contact information see: <a href="http://www.ala.org/alcts/confevents/upcoming/webcourse/foa/ol_templ">http://www.ala.org/alcts/confevents/upcoming/webcourse/foa/ol_templ</a></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:10pt"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">For questions about registration, contact ALA Registration by calling 1-800-545-2433 and press 5 or email <a href="mailto:registration@ala.org">registration@ala.org</a>. For all other questions or comments related to web courses, contact Julie Reese, ALCTS Events Manager at 1-800-545-2433, ext. 5034 or <a href="mailto:alctsce@ala.org">alctsce@ala.org</a>.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:10pt"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">*Posted on behalf of the ALCTS Continuing Education Committee.*</span></p></div>