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ALCTS Collection </span><span style="font-family: "Calibri Light", "Helvetica Light", sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Management and Electronic Resources Interest Group (CMERIG) is pleased to announce its program for ALA Midwinter in Seattle.</span><br>
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January 27,</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre; white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="font-family: "Calibri Light", "Helvetica Light", sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">
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Hyatt Seattle, </span><span style="font-family: "Calibri Light", "Helvetica Light", sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Princessa 1</span></span></p>
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discussion about the </span><span style="font-family: "Calibri Light", "Helvetica Light", sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">inclusion of Open Access resources in collection management</span></span></p>
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volume of Open </span><span style="font-family: "Calibri Light", "Helvetica Light", sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Access (OA) publications is growing, and incorporating OA resources into library collections is becoming increasingly important; but with over
11,000 journals in the Directory of Open Access Journals alone, how does one go about selecting, managing, and promoting
</span><span style="font-family: "Calibri Light", "Helvetica Light", sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">journals relevant to a library’s collection? </span></span></p>
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Emery, Collection </span><span style="font-family: "Calibri Light", "Helvetica Light", sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Development & Management Librarian at Portland State University, and author of a forthcoming work with Graham Stone on streamlining OA workflows
in electronic resources management, will lead a discussion on the intricacies of incorporating OA resources into a library’s
</span><span style="font-family: "Calibri Light", "Helvetica Light", sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">collection development policy, managing OA resources, and promoting OA resources to library users. </span></span></p>
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session promises </span><span style="font-family: "Calibri Light", "Helvetica Light", sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">to be informative with plenty of time for questions and answers. Attendees will gain an understanding of how to include OA in collection development
policies, create selection criteria for OA materials, and promote OA resources. Attendees will also learn about
</span><span style="font-family: "Calibri Light", "Helvetica Light", sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">access levels as they relate to OA resources.</span></span></p>
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</span><span style="font-family: "Calibri Light", "Helvetica Light", sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Emery</span></span></p>
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Development & Management Librarian, Portland State University</span></span></p>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Calibri Light, sans-serif, serif, "EmojiFont"; font-size: 10pt;">Shannon Tharp (she, her, hers)</span></p>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Calibri Light, sans-serif, serif, "EmojiFont"; font-size: 10pt;">University of Denver Libraries</span></p>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Calibri Light, sans-serif, serif, "EmojiFont"; font-size: 10pt;">Shannon.Tharp@du.edu</span></p>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Calibri Light, sans-serif, serif, "EmojiFont"; font-size: 10pt;">303-871-7509</span></p>
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