Fogler Library to Host Statewide Summit
Contact: Joyce Rumery at (207) 581-1655
ORONO — The University of Maine’s Fogler Library will host a statewide Collection Development Summit on June 15, 2009. The Summit, organized by the Maine InfoNet Board, will bring approximately 100 librarians from around the state.
The purpose of the summit is to explore library collection development issues, priorities, and opportunities on a statewide basis. Declining budgets, new information formats, mandates for collaboration, and increased requests for services and collections provide a strategic opportunity for libraries of all types within the state of Maine to step back and think about what might be done collectively and collaboratively that would benefit both library users and coordinating institutions.