2025 Proposal Submission Form Acquisitions Institute at Timberline Lodge

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2025 Acquisitions Institute at Timberline Lodge

Sunday, May 18 - Wednesday, May 21, 2025 (Sunday thru Wednesday in 2025)

Proposal deadline: EOD Monday, December 30, 2024

Applicants will be notified by Monday, January 20, 2025

The planning committee invites submissions from individuals, pairs, or groups for presentations on all aspects of library acquisitions and collection management. The small size, single-track nature of the institute encourages conversational presentations, and presenters are encouraged to directly engage the audience (whether the presentation leans more toward the practical "here's what we did" session or toward the more abstract "here's what we think" session). The committee may also seek to achieve balance in the program by bringing individual proposals together to form panels, or by recommending that a proposal be converted to a table talk. We invite you to indicate whether or not you'd be interested in these opportunities below.

The Acquisitions Institute is committed to diversity, inclusion, equity, and social justice. Please review our Code of Conduct (http://acquisitionsinstitute.org/acquisitions-institute-code-of-conduct/), and we look forward to reviewing your proposal!

Email *

Name *

Professional Title *

Organization *

I agree to abide by the Acquisitions Institute Code of Conduct (https://acquisitionsinstitute.org/acquisitions-institute-code-of-conduct/). *

Yes

Proposal Title *

Proposal Abstract (Keep to 1300 characters - roughly 200 words) *

Have you attended the Acquisitions Institute before? *

Yes, once

Yes, two or more times

Not yet!

Please select all topical areas of your proposal, and/or add your own: *

Assessment tools, methods, and projects (e.g., linking collections with learning outcomes; usage studies)

Collection strategies including new models for selection and managing liaison programs

Government, special, or small academic library perspectives in acquisitions and collection development

Sustainable models for publishing/pricing

Effective management of collections with constrained resources

Vendor and publisher evaluation, including business skills to determine financial viability

Diversity, inclusion, representation, and social justice in acquisitions and collections

Negotiation skills and how to use them, including during library-vendor and library-publisher meetings

Innovative vendor-librarian relationships and/or partnerships

Staffing, training and development, and recruiting issues, challenges, successes (e.g., onboarding new acquisitions and/or collections staff)

Using data visualization techniques to tell our stories (e.g., budget, collections, staff successes, etc.)

Impacts of Open initiatives on acquisitions and collection development

Data curation, including Big Data, and management and other new roles for subject and technical services librarians

How Generative AI impacts our work

Other:

Required

Would you be interested in converting this topic to another format if recommended by the planning committee? (check all that apply) *

Yes - I'd be up for being a part of a panel presentation

Yes - I'd like to lead a table talk on this topic

Maybe - l'd like to learn more

No thank you

Required

Multiple Presenters? (if yes, you will be prompted to enter presenter info on the next page). NOTE: Maximum of three presenters per proposal. *

Yes

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