may12b.indd C&RL News May 2012 254 ACRL Board of Directors • Board I: Saturday, June 23, 1:30-5:30 p.m. • Board II: Monday, June 25, 1:30-4:30 p.m. During Board I there will be an open mi- crophone period from 5:00 to 5:30 p.m. Note that this period cannot be used to request that the Board take an immediate action. All guests planning to address the Board during the open microphone session are asked to arrive by 5:00 p.m. ACRL special events at 2012 ALA Annual Conference Friday, June 22 Instruction Section. Soiree, 5:30–7:00 p.m. Contact: Melissa Wong, mwong@cox.net College Libraries Section. Friday Night Feast, pre-registration required, 6:00 p.m. Contact: Carolyn Carpan, acarpan@mail.smu.edu Community & Junior College Libraries Section. Awards and Dinner Meeting, pre- registration is required, 7:30 p.m. Contact: David Wright, wrightd@surry.edu Saturday, June 23 Health Sciences Interest Group. Happy Hour, no registration required, 5:00–6:30 p.m. Contact: Laura Friesen, lflynn@umflint.edu Women and Gender Studies Section. Social, no registration required, 6:00 p.m. Contact: Juliann Couture, Juliann.Couture@asu.edu Sunday, June 24 Law and Political Science Section. Marta Lange/CQ Press Reception, pre-registration is required, 1:30–3:30 p.m. Contact: Nadine Hoffman, nadine.hoffman@ucalgary.ca Anthropology and Sociology Section. 40th Anniversary Celebration, pre-registration is required, 4:00 p.m. Contact: Terry Epperson, epperson@tcnj.edu Science and Technology Section. Dinner, pre-registration is required, 6:00 p.m. Contact: John Meier, meier@psu.edu Western European Studies Section. Social Event, pre-registration is required, 6:30 p.m. Contact: Katie Gibson, gibsonke@muohio.edu ACRL programs at the 2012 ALA Annual Conference and Exhibition A brief overview Find complete details on ACRL programs in Anaheim on the ACRL at Annual Conference Web page. Go to www.acrl.org, select “Confer- ences & Continuing Education,” and click on “ACRL @ ALA Annual Conference 2012” for the latest details. Locations for programs and a complete listing of ACRL meetings, along with discussion Annual Conference information online group and interest group information, will be available in the Annual Conference Scheduler in early May. Fully registered attendees can cre- ate a personalized agenda and search for meet- ing, program, and event times and locations. The Annual Conference Scheduler is available at connect.ala.org/conference /ala12. May 2012 255 C&RL News ACRL President’s Program/Preconferences ACRL Presidents’ Program, Monday, June 25, 2012, 10:30 a.m.—12:00 p.m. Future of the Book: Innovation in Tradi- tional Industries. ACRL/ALCTS Joint Pro- gram. Duane Bray, partner at IDEO, a global innovation and design consulting firm, will discuss the challenges traditional industries often face when experiencing disruptive change. He will share concrete techniques for recogniz- ing and harnessing opportunities for innovation. Preconferences Note: Pre-registration is required for all preconferences. Visit www. acrl.org (click on “Conferences & Continuing Education” for details). Friday, June 22, 2012, 9:00 a.m.–4:00 p.m. Digital Humanities in Theory and Practice: Tools and Methods for Librarians. This preconference will position humanities librarians to participate in, create, and lead digital humanities initiatives. In addition to introducing theories and practices that characterize the digital humanities, ex- plore several examples of how librarians currently lead library digitization initia- tives, collaborate on faculty projects, and participate in national grant-funded efforts. Investigate project management complexi- ties, digital humanities’ impact on research collections, humanities librarians’ work with faculty to manage their digital humani- ties research, and digital humanities’ role in scholarly communication. Registration materials and additional program details can be found at www.ala.org/acrl /digitalhumanities. Friday, June 22, 2012, 8:30 a.m.–4:00 p.m. Planning, Assessing, and Com- municating Library Impact: Put- ting the Standards for Libraries in Higher Education into Action. Libraries in higher education are increasingly required to demon- strate their value and document their contributions to overall institutional effectiveness. The Standards for Libraries in Higher Education is a framework for library planning and as- sessment that can be used for a variety of circumstances, including annual planning, program review, and accreditation self-study. Through presentation, discussion, and group activities, learn how to use the standards to communicate your library’s impact. Reg- istration materials and additional program details can be found at www.ala.org/acrl /standardspreconference. Duane Bray Furthermore, we would like to explore the short-term loan option for our PDA collection. California State University-Fullerton recently published the results of a study of their PDA collection, which featured three short-term loans before triggering a buy. They found that their average cost for providing access to content of a title was $10.78, considerably less than purchasing the e-book.3 PDA e-book collections are already chang- ing the way acquisitions librarians provide resources. As we collect more data on the use of our PDA collection, we will be better able to tailor our collection to our users’ needs, all while our users help determine the content. Notes 1. Jennifer Howard, “Reader Choice, Not Vendor Influence, Reshapes Library Collec- tions,” Chronicle of Higher Education 57 no. 12 (2010): A11–A12. 2. Steven Carrico and Michelle Leonard, “Patron-Driven Acquisitions and Collection Building Initiatives at UF,” Florida Libraries 54 no. 1 (2011): 14–17. 3. William Breitbach and Joy E. Lambert, “Patron-Driven Ebook Acquisition,” Comput- ers in Libraries 31 no. 6 (2011): 17–20. (“Individual title . . .” cont. from page 252)