<div dir="ltr"><b>Charleston Library Conference: 2016 Registration Now Open</b><br><br>The
Charleston Library Conference is pleased to announce that registration
is now open for our 2016 event. This annual conference on issues in book
and serial acquisition will again be held in beautiful historic
downtown Charleston, SC, with headquarters at the Gaillard Center and
the Francis Marion Hotel. Sessions will also be held at the Courtyard by
Marriott Historic, the Embassy Suites Historic. Register now at <a href="http://www.charlestonlibraryconference.com" target="_blank">www.charlestonlibraryconference.com</a>!<br><br>"The
Charleston Library Conference continues to place an emphasis on giving a
platform to fresh ideas and equally valuing the input from all sides of
the information and scholarly communications industry," says Conference
Founder and Convener Katina Strauch. "If you have challenges,
solutions, or information to share then we'd love to hear from you.
After all, ideas are only amplified and improved by others who are also
interested!"<br><br>Confirmed speakers include Anja Smit, Library
Director at the University of Utrecht; Judith C. Russell, Dean of
University Libraries, University of Florida; James G. Neal, University
Librarian Emeritus, Columbia University, and 2017-2018 President-Elect
of the American Library Association; Kalev Leetaru, Senior Fellow,
Center for Cyber & Homeland Security, the George Washington
University; Google Developer Expert, Google Cloud Platform; the return
of our annual "Long Arm of the Law Panel," including Ann Okerson (CRL)
and Bill Hannay (Schiff Hardin LLP); Gary Price, Founder/Editor,
Librarian, infoDOCKET; and David Lankes, Director and Associate Dean,
University of South Carolina College of Information and Communications.
Other speakers will be announced soon. <br><br>We also have a fantastic line up of preconference sessions scheduled for <span tabindex="0" class=""><span class="">Monday, October 31 through Wednesday, November 2</span></span>.
Some of the sessions are: Introduction to Data Curation, Acquistions
Bootcamp, Data Visualization from Scratch, Understanding the Library
Market, Predators, “Pirates” and Privacy: Educating Researchers on New
Challenges in Publishing, and more. Session descriptions and schedules
are online at <a href="http://www.charlestonlibraryconference.com/preconferences/" target="_blank">http://www.charlestonlibraryconference.com/preconferences/</a>. <div><br></div><div>Our Call for Papers form is open through <span tabindex="0" class=""><span class="">July 15</span></span>.
We are seeking proposals on topics in collection development and
acquisitions on a variety of related issues. Please send in your ideas
at <a href="http://www.charlestonlibraryconference.com/call-for-papers/" target="_blank">http://www.charlestonlibraryconference.com/call-for-papers/</a>.</div><div><br></div><div>Contact Information:</div><div><br></div><div>Leah Hinds<br>Assistant Director</div><div><a href="mailto:leah@charlestonlibraryconference.com" target="_blank">leah@charlestonlibraryconference.com</a></div><div><a href="tel:864-353-1181" value="+18643531181" target="_blank">864-353-1181</a><br><br>About the Charleston Conference: <div><br></div><div>The
Charleston Conference is an informal annual gathering of librarians,
publishers, electronic resource managers, consultants, and vendors of
library materials in Charleston, SC, in November, to discuss issues of
importance to them all. It is designed to be a collegial gathering of
individuals from different areas who discuss the same issues in a
non-threatening, friendly, and highly informal environment. Presidents
of companies discuss and debate with library directors, acquisitions
librarians, reference librarians, serials librarians, collection
development librarians, and many, many others. Begun in 1980, the
Charleston Conference has grown from 20 participants in 1980 to over
1,700 in 2015. <a href="http://www.charlestonlibraryconference.com/" target="_blank">www.charlestonlibraryconference.com</a></div></div><br><br><br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div>Beth R. Bernhardt</div>
<div>Assistant Dean for Collection Management and Scholarly Communications</div>
<div>University Libraries</div>
<div>University of North Carolina Greensboro</div>
<div>PO Box 26170</div>
<div>Greensboro, NC 27402</div>
<div>336-256-1210</div></div></div></div>
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