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Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2006
From: June Schmidt (Mississippi State U.) <JSchmidt_at_library.msstate.edu>
Subject: Meeting Announcement
The ALCTS Technical Services Administrators
Medium-Sized Research Libraries Discussion Group will meet at ALA
Midwinter in Seattle:
Saturday, Jan. 20, 2007, 10:30-12:30am
Hilton Seattle, Sound View Room
The topic is: Changes in Responsibilities, Organization and Staffing
within Technical Services Departments
There will be as many as 6 round tables with a facilitator from the
Discussion Group Steering Team at each. Individual tables can choose
to focus on specific questions from the following list or discuss each
of the questions:
1. What new tasks and responsibilities are Technical Services
departments taking on now and in the next 3 years?
2. What tasks will Technical Services departments give
up/reduce/outsource in order to take on these new responsibilities,
and how?
3. How will Technical Services departments be organized to take on
these new responsibilities?
4. How do we start training now for a future that isn't totally clear?
5. How will we help existing staff transition to new roles?
6. What kinds of staffing will be needed in the future (e.g. MLS?,
Paraprofessional vs. professional, programming skills?) to take on
these new responsibilities? What duties are assigned to which staff?
7. How will libraries recruit to fill these positions?
Each table should identify a reporter and a note-taker. There will be
30 minutes set aside at the end (12-12:30) for tables to report back
to the group on their discussions. The note-taker at each table
should give their notes to the Steering Team facilitator at their
table. The current chair of the discussion group will write a report
that will appear in Technical Services Quarterly that summarizes the
discussions and credits the note-takers and facilitators if they add
to or significantly edit the notes.
Thanks for considering attendance at what we hope will be a
stimulating and timely discussion.
June Schmidt
Associate Dean for Technical Services
Mitchell Memorial Library
P.O. Box 5408
Mississippi State, MS 39762
662-325-7672
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