Meeting Announcement/Call for Papers

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Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2002
From: Jack Hall (Univ. of Houston) <jhall_at_uh.edu>
Subject: Meeting Announcement/Call for Papers

This is an announcement for Midwinter in Philadelphia, and a call for 
presenters for Annual, in Toronto.

ALA Midwinter, 2003, Philadelphia

Heads of Technical Services of Medium-Sized Academic Libraries Discussion 
Group

Saturday, January 25, 9:30-11 a.m., PCC (Pennsylvania Convention Center), 
room 201C

Please join us for our discussion, and be ready to participate. You 
definitely do not need to be a "head" of technical services, or even *in* 
technical services, and your head can be larger or smaller than "medium." 
The topic for the next year or so is:

"How technical services can, should, and does respond and cooperate when 
faced with needs and demands from other library divisions, especially 
public services."

At Midwinter, the case study approach will be used. Participants will be 
divided into small groups of 6 to 10; each group will have 30-45 minutes 
to discuss a case study illustrating a demand made on technical services 
by another library division: initial response to the demand; planning; 
implementing; evaluating. Afterwards, each small group will briefly 
present their case and findings to the large group for comments and 
discussion.

At Annual, we want to have about three presentations on the topic of 
technical services cooperation with public services, or other library 
divisions, and this message is also a call for presenters. The Discussion 
Group's meeting at Annual will take place Saturday, June 21, 9:30-11 a.m.

Please volunteer to be a presenter and share your knowledge and experience 
with your colleagues; contact Jack Hall (jhall_at_uh.edu) with your ideas for 
presentations. Some possible broad areas for presentation might be (but 
are not limited to):

1. How our library (or technical services) is organized to promote 
cooperation
2. How to staff the library to promote cooperation, including having some 
or all librarians perform functions common to both public and technical 
services
3. Special projects that have required technical services cooperation with 
public services, or other library divisions

Thanks very much; see you at Midwinter!

Jack

Jack Hall
114L University of Houston Libraries
Houston, TX  77204-2000
telephone:(713) 743-9687
e-mail: jhall_at_uh.edu
fax: (713) 743-9748


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