ALA Meeting Announcement: ALCTS Medium Heads

From: Rick Anderson <rickand_at_unr.edu> Date: Mon, 7 Jun 2004 08:34:59 -0700 To: <acqnet-l_at_listproc.appstate.edu>

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Date: Mon, 7 Jun 2004
From: Mary Beth Thomson (Univ. of Houston) <mbthomson_at_uh.edu>
Subject: ALA Meeting Announcement: ALCTS Medium Heads

The ALCTS Heads of Technical Services of Medium-Sized Academic and 
Research Libraries Discussion Group will meet at ALA Annual 2004 in 
Orlando as follows: 

Saturday, June 26: 9:30-11:00 a.m. J.W. Marriott Grande Lakes, Palazzo D

A new chair will be elected. Nominations will be accepted at the
meeting, 
or you may send them to me in advance. 

The overall discussion theme will be: Coping with Change. Steering 
committee members will facilitate individual round table discussions on
the 
following sub-topics for 40 minutes, before tables summarize for the
group 
at large: 

1.  How to deal with a new dean 

2.  How to cope with changes in next year's budget 

3.  Adjusting work flows after migration to a new integrated system 

4.  Helping staff cope with change 

5.  Developing cooperation between acquisitions and cataloging when 
implementing cataloging-on-receipt, PromptCat, receiving shelf-ready 
materials, etc. 

6.  Convincing the dean that you need more staff in technical services
in 
order to cope with changes 

Come, choose a table, and participate in lively and useful discussions 
planned to help you cope. 

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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