We are delighted to be able to offer a librarian a free place at the ALPSP International Conference again this year (http://ow.ly/9PNeE).
About the conference
The ALPSP International Conference is where the international scholarly publishing community meets. This year's venue is the Belfry, just outside Birmingham and within minutes of major air, road and rail transport links. The Belfry has excellent meeting, accommodation and leisure facilities. As conference sponsor, SAGE is offering one librarian the chance to attend for free.
This is the second year that SAGE has offered a librarian place at this conference. Last year’s winner, Patrick Carr wrote the following about his experiences:
“Thanks to my receipt of a SAGE travel grant, I was able to attend the Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers' (ALPSP) International Conference. The conference was held from September 14th through 16th at the beautiful Heythrop Park Hotel in Oxfordshire and was attended by a broad spectrum of professionals engaged in issues and challenges associated with the publication and dissemination of knowledge.
“In my current position as Head of Electronic & Continuing Resources Acquisitions at East Carolina University's Joyner Library, I work with publishers on a daily basis on acquisition and licensing terms. For this reason, attending the ALPSP conference was particularly insightful: it enabled me to see familiar topics in the field of librarianship (like evolving formats, patron preferences, acquisition models, and discovery tools) being addressed from a publisher-centered perspective.
In the current environment of tightening budgets, libraries and publishers are both being faced with the challenges of doing more with less. To successfully partner to address these challenges, it is essential that both parties strive to understand the other's perspective. I would encourage my library colleagues to consider attendance at future ALPSP conferences in order to pursue opportunities to strengthen those understandings.”
Enter now!
If you are a librarian or information professional, and free to attend the conference on 11-13 September 2012, you can enter the competition to win a sponsored place by answering the following question via Twitter or email in 140 characters or less:
Why should librarians be talking to publishers in 2012?
Fill in your answer and send us a tweet to @SAGElibraryNews tagged with #ALPSP or email to [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>
Full terms and conditions for this grant can be found here<http://www.uk.sagepub.com/alpsp2012.sp> (http://www.uk.sagepub.com/alpsp2012.sp).
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