Meeting Announcement/Call for Volunteers (ALA Midwinter)

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Date: Mon, 6 Dec 2004
From: Mary Beth Thomson (Univ. of Houston) <mbthomson_at_uh.edu>
Subject: Meeting Announcement/Call for Volunteers

The ALCTS Creative Ideas in Technical Services Discussion Group will
hold 
its ALA Midwinter Meeting in Boston as follows:

MIDWINTER 2005 CREATIVE IDEAS DISCUSSION GROUP:

Sunday, January 16, 2005, 4:30-5:30 p.m. HCC (Hynes Convention Center)
103

Participants can choose from the eight table topics listed below. The 
co-chairs will provide a sheet of sub-topics to serve as a discussion 
guide for each topic.

The co-chairs for this year are: Kalyani Parthasarathy, University of
New 
Orleans, and Jack Hall, University of Houston

VOLUNTEER FACILITATOR AND RECORDERS SOUGHT: We are seeking volunteers to

facilitate and record the discussions at the individual topic tables. If

you would like to facilitate or record, please send your information to 
Jack Hall at jhall_at_uh.edu. Indicate all the table topics you would be 
willing to work on (see list below) and whether you would rather 
facilitate or record. The co-chairs will appreciate flexibility on your 
part as we assign topics and roles.

RESPONSIBILITIES OF VOLUNTEERS: FACILITATORS guide the discussions on
the 
topics at their tables, making sure that everybody is encouraged to 
participate, and seeing to it that the discussion ends in time for brief

summary reports to be made to the group at large. RECORDERS take notes 
during the discussion and send a written report to the discussion group 
co-chairs soon after the conference is over. Those reports will form the

basis of the report the co-chairs make to ALCTS, and the deadline is 
always very soon after the conference.

At individual tables, the facilitator and the recorder can come to an 
agreement over which of them will stand up for a couple of minutes at
the 
end of the meeting and give a brief report on their table's discussion
to 
all the attendees.

Individual table topics for discussions, which will last about 30
minutes:

1. Technical Services Organizational Structure

2. Technical Services Workflow

3. Relationship Between Technical Services and Public Services

4. Relationship Between Technical Services and the Systems Department

5. Gathering Collection and Usage Statistics

6. Electronic Resources

7. Acquisitions Workflow

8. Managing Authority Control

Discussion group co-chairs for 2005: Please send your volunteer
interests 
to Jack Hall, and thanks in advance!

Jack Hall, University of Houston jhall_at_uh.edu
Kalyani Parthasarathy kparthas_at_uno.edu



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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