Emerging Paradigms for Academic Library E-Book Acquisition and Use: Trends, Challenges and Opportunities

June 3, 2008
The Chinese University of Hong Kong

We are delighted to invite you to participate in the above conference. This conference is an initiative of the Electronic Resources Academic Library Link (ERALL) project, and is organized by the City University of Hong Kong and the Chinese University of Hong Kong.  ERALL is a consortium formed by the eight members of the Joint University Librarians Advisory Committee (JULAC - i.e. the eight Hong Kong university libraries). The consortium purchases E-Books for shared and perpetual access among the eight member libraries.

The purpose of this conference is to give an opportunity to each JULAC Library to share their experiences in acquiring and using E-Books.  We also welcome overseas speakers including vendors to address the e-publishing industry and E-Book trends, practicing librarians with E-Book research and experience, and consortium leaders with negotiating and licensing experience.  While JULAC members can attend the conference free of charge, non-JULAC members need to pay a registration fee (details to be announced later). 

This is the first call for papers. You are invited to submit abstracts on any of the following Topics on E-Books: 

1. Strategic collection development, book selection, or technical issues from cataloguing, acquisition, consortial purchasing, licensing terms, and systems.
2. Promotion, current awareness, user education and curriculum integration. 
3. Usage (log analysis, access statistics, comparison between E-Books and print books, reports from surveys, interviews, focus group discussion, and case studies.)

Submission:
Please submit the following by March 14, 2008, as an email attachment to Ms Stacey Ng at \n This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it href="mailto: This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it "> This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it  or by fax to +852 2788 9425

• - Title
• - An abstract of no more than 400 words (Microsoft Word format)
• - Names of all authors
• - Affiliated institution(s)
• - Position(s)
• - Email address(es)

 Accepted papers will be notified by March 28. Full papers or powerpoint presentations should be submitted by May 2 to be published in the conference proceedings and the conference website: http://www.cityu.edu.hk/lib/ebook_conf/. Depending on the number of paper submissions, a presentation will last between 20-30 minutes.

For further information, please feel free to contact Ms Stacey Ng on +852 3442 6348 or at the above email address. We look forward to receiving from you a paper submission and seeing you at the conference.