SAGE offers travel grant for the ALPSP International Conference

["Wrye, Ashley" <Ashley.Wrye@sagepub.com>]

***apologies for cross posting***

SAGE LAUNCHES LIBRARY TRAVEL GRANT FOR THE ALPSP INTERNATIONAL 
CONFERENCE

SAGE has announced it will be sponsoring a librarian place at 
this year's Association of Learned and Professional Society 
Publishers (ALPSP) International conference. The annual event 
takes place this year from 14-16th September at Heythrop Park 
near Oxford.

As the world's leading independent academic and professional 
publisher, SAGE has supported the ALPSP conference as silver 
sponsor since its launch in 2008. This new travel grant will 
offer a free place at the conference for a librarian or 
information professional, including entry to the ALPSP awards 
dinner, travel within the UK and accommodation for one person.

"The ALPSP conference has quickly become a major fixture in the 
publishing calendar, providing a great opportunity to meet and 
network. Librarians who have attended this conference in the past 
have added greatly to the formal and informal discussions and we 
feel that it is vital for there to be constructive dialogue 
between publishers and librarians," said Ian Russell, Chief 
Executive, ALPSP.

Steven Sharp, Resource Acquisition Team Leader at University of 
Leeds was an attendee of the 2010 conference. He said, "I was a 
speaker at the 2010 ALPSP Annual Conference. It was a great 
opportunity to engage with publishers on a face-to-face basis, to 
share ideas and concerns, and to explore ways of moving the 
scholarly publishing agenda forward in a mutually beneficial way 
during difficult economic times."

SAGE will be running a competition to win the sponsored place, 
with entries submitted either via Twitter or email. To enter, 
librarians must answer the following question in 140 characters 
or less:

Question: Why should librarians be talking to publishers in 2011?

"In the current economic climate it is more important than ever 
that publishers and librarians have open dialogue on how we can 
work together," said Clive Parry, Global Marketing Director, 
SAGE. "We have found the conference to be a must-attend event 
over the past three years and are delighted to be supporting 
ALPSP in facilitating this free place."

Completed answers should be sent to 
@SAGElibraryNews<http://www.twitter.com/SAGElibraryNews> tagged 
with #SAGEALPSP or email to events@sagepub.co.uk by the 27th May 
2011. Further terms and conditions can be found at 
www.sagepub.co.uk/alpsp2011.

For more information about the conference please visit: 
http://www.alpsp.org/ngen_public/default.asp?ID=393

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Ashley Wrye
PR Manager
SAGE Publications Inc
2455 Teller Road
Thousand Oaks, CA 91320
USA