Open Access: What Does It Mean for ALCTS and LRTS?

Hosts

Buddy Pennington is the Director of Collections and Access Management at the University of Missouri – Kansas City, leading library operations in collection development, acquisitions, cataloging and metadata, and electronic resources management.

Doralyn Rossmann is Head of Collection Development and Associate Professor at Montana State University Library in Bozeman, MT. She has more than twenty years of experience in academic librarianship. Her current research interests include scholarly communication, building successful and strategic social media plans, social media optimization, and community building and engagement in libraries.

Mary Beth Weber is the Head of Central Technical Services at Rutgers University Libraries in New Brunswick, New Jersey. She has 28 years of experience as an academic librarian and has held a variety of positions at Rutgers. The responsibilities of her current position include oversight of acquisitions and resource description (both MARC and non-MARC metadata). She is the current editor of Library Resources & Technical Services (LRTS), the official scholarly journal of ALCTS.