June 2008

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YBP Names Francoise Crowell as Director of Collection Management and Principal Bibliographer. In Francoise's 21 year career with YBP, she has established a reputation both within YBP and among our library customers as one of our most knowledgeable resources for approval profiling and collection development. In her new role, Francoise will continue to serve the needs of global customers, while providing new and continuing approval training for sales/customer service staff and helping to facilitate the development and refinement of new and existing approval plan support tools. YBP staff set to participate in panel discussions at ALA Annual. If you're headed to Anaheim, don't miss these informative panel discussions on important topics of the day: Ebook Workflows: Selection to Access This panel discussion will focus on the impact of ebook acquisition on a library organization, including workflow models and the issues surrounding the acquisition and organization of ebooks workflows. Michael Walmsley, Director of Sales, Central U.S. region, is a panel presenter. Saturday, June 28, 2008 from 8:00 -10:00 AM in the Anaheim Convention Center, Rm. 204B Technical Services Workflows for E-content This panel will focus on e-content delivery, workflows, and management. Michael Zeoli, Director of Canadian Sales for YBP, is Co-Chair, Automated Acquisitions In-Process/Control Services Discussion Group, sponsor of this discussion. Sunday, June 29th from 10:30 - Noon in the Hyatt Regency, Salon II. Branding: Claiming the Reader's Mind Space In an increasingly competitive environment, publishers, aggregators, consortia, distributors, search engines, and libraries must all seek to maintain and/or increase name recognition among their users. Come hear what publishers, vendors and libraries are saying about this topic in an open forum where the follow-up discussion is sure to be provocative. Ann-Marie Breaux, VP for Academic Services Integration at YBP, is Incoming Chair of the ALCTS Publisher/Vendor/Library Relations Committee, sponsor of this discussion. Monday, June 30, 2008, 8 - 10 AM, Anaheim Convention Center, Room 213C. GOBI Reports Online Workshop. GOBI offers numerous reporting tools: Peer Reports, Expenditure Reports, Approval Activity Reports, Continuations Shipment Reports, Open Order Reports and Consortia Reports. Need assistance? Sign up for the upcoming GOBI Reports workshop. You can join in right from your desk -- click here. Wednesday, June 25 @ 10:00 am EDT

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