(Corrected) ALA Discussion Group Meeting Announcement

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[ED. NOTE: When this announcement was posted originally, one of the
e-mail addresses provided was incorrect.  At the original poster's
request, I'm reposting the announcement with the address corrected.]

Date: Tue, 29 May 2001
From: Edward Bergin (Southwest Texas State Univ.) <eb13_at_swt.edu>
Subject: ALA Discussion Group Meeting Announcement

The ALCTS Creative Ideas in Technical Services Discussion Group will meet
at Annual 2001 on Sunday, June 17th, from 4:30 p.m.- 5:30 pm.  This
discussion group meeting consists of round table discussions with eight to
ten people participating at each table.  We are seeking volunteers to serve
as facilitators and recorders at each discussion table.  FACILITATORS
introduce the topic, ask persons to introduce themselves, keep track of the
meeting time, and, most importantly, keep the discussion moving and ensure
that all are able to participate.  The co-chairs will supply a list of
questions for each topic that facilitators can use to keep the discussion
focused and moving.  Facilitators may also incorporate their own questions
as well.  Experience has shown that very few tables make it through all the
questions in the time provided!  RECORDERS participate in the discussion and
take notes of the discussion which will be forwarded to the co-chairs.  The
co-chairs will use the notes to write a report which will be
posted/published
on the ALCTS Web site.  Facilitators and recorders will receive
acknowledgement
in the report.  Please volunteer by June 11, 2001 by contacting Edward A.
Bergin, co-chair (eb13_at_swt.edu), or (512)-245-3005.  Let us know if you have
a topic preference and if you would prefer to serve as a facilitator or
recorder.  Do not reply to the listservs; reply to Edward A. Bergin at
eb13_at_swt.edu.  For those who wish to enjoy what are always informative and
lively discussions, please join us on Sunday!

TOPICS:

1.  Cataloging Electronic Journals

--What are the advantages/disadvantages?

--Training issues (internal, external)?

--Who participates in the process (cataloging, reference, systems, other
depts.)?

--Who participates in the process (professionals, paraprofessionals,
Non-library staff (e.g., webmaster))?

 --Workflow issues (time, productivity, value-added, prioritizing?)


 2.  Competencies for professionals

 --What should they be?

 --How have job descriptions changed?

 --What roles are professionals now playing that they didn't have five years
ago (or two years ago?)

 --What are the challenges that professionals face, what are the tools they
need to assist them?

 --What is it that librarians feel they need to acquire to keep up? How do
librarians keep up?  What is the level of support?


 3.  Electronic Resources (e-books, aggregator databases, e-journals,
websites, etc.)

 --Licensing issues? (Who negotiates, who signs, what makes or breaks the
signing of a license?)

 --Collection development/Acquisition issues? (Overlapping responsibilities?
How are decisions made on the resources, who makes the decisions? What
happens
when there are problems, who deals?)

 --Archival issues?

 --Cataloging issues?

--Budgetary effects?


 4.  Cross training opportunities for technical services

 --What has been the impetus for cross training?

 --Cross-training best practices (In which technical services areas has
cross-training worked best?)

 --Best areas to train public services into technical services?  (What are
the benefits? Has it been tried? Has it worked?)

 --Cross-training into public services . (What are the benefits? Has it
been tried? Has it worked?)

--When has cross training not worked?


5.  Serials and Microform Resources


 --Retention, who decides to retain what, for how long, and in which format?

 --Whose responsibility is it to manage the storage issue?

 --What are the alternatives?

 --How have new technologies affected the use of resources (e.g. networked
print/scanning stations)

 --How have the electronic resources changed the way serials service staffs
are trained?  Has training changed?


6.  Merging Serials Functions in Acquisitions and Cataloging

--What overlap currently exists in serials functions in technical services
units?

--To merge or not to merge?  What are the benefits?  Challenges?

--Training issues (internal? external? across departmental units?)

--Workflow issues (time? productivity? value-added?)

--Where do electronic serials fit in (CD-ROMs), and remote access (internet
serials))?


Thank you in advance from the co-chairs.


 Elizabeth G. McClenney
 Associate Librarian for Technical Services
 Johnston Memorial Library
 Virginia State University
 Petersburg, VA
gmcclenn_at_vsu.edu
 (804)524-5580

and

Edward A. Bergin
Southwest Texas State University
San Marcos, TX
eb13_at_swt.edu
(512)-245-3005

















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