ALA Meeting Announcement -- ALCTS Creative Ideas in Tech Services DG

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Date: Mon, 8 Jan 2007 
From: Carla Davis Cunningham (Temple Univ.) <ccunni01_at_temple.edu> 
Subject: ALA Meeting Announcement 

(Cross-posted to AUTOCAT and SERIALIST)

The ALCTS Creative Ideas in Technical Services Discussion Group will meet at
the ALA Midwinter Meeting in Seattle, Washington on Sunday, January 21,
2007, from 4:00pm - 6:00pm, in Room 303 of the Washington State Convention &
Trade Center.  Participants can join breakout discussions on the topics
listed below.  At the end of the discussion period, each group will give a
short summary for the benefit of all attendees.

The discussion topics are:

1. Using Marc records from U.S. vendors and non-U.S. bibliographic agencies
2. Using genre terms in MARC records
3. Employing temporary librarians and other staff in technical services
4. Making the last five years of your career before retirement the best/most
productive
5. Planning work space for technical services
6. Outsourcing journal check-in
7. Ordering on vendor websites/using vendor order records
8. Creating a catalog front end that integrates well in the Amazoogle
environment
9. Creating a "virtual periodicals room" for browsing online journals

This year's chair is Carla Davis Cunningham, Temple University and the
vice-chair/chair-elect is Linda Lomker, University of Minnesota.

VOLUNTEER FACILITATOR AND RECORDERS SOUGHT:  We are asking for volunteers to
facilitate and record the discussions at each topic table.  If you would
like to facilitate or record, please send your information to Carla Davis
Cunningham at ccunni01_at_temple.edu (that's ccunni zero one).  Indicate all
the topics you would be willing to facilitate or record. 

RESPONSIBILITIES OF VOLUNTEERS:  FACILITATORS guide the discussion on the
topics at their tables, making sure everyone participates, and keeps it
within the allotted time.  The chair and vice-chair will provide
facilitators with suggestions to serve as a discussion guide.  RECORDERS
take notes during discussions and send a written report to the vice-chair
soon after the conference is over. These reports form the basis for the
report the chair sends to ALCTS and Technical Services Quarterly.

Please send your volunteer interests to Carla Davis Cunningham
(ccunni01_at_temple.edu) by January 16.

Thanks in advance!

Carla Davis Cunningham & Linda Lomker

Carla Davis Cunningham
Cataloger/Copy Cataloging Coordinator, Monographs
Paley Library (017-00)
Temple University
1210 W. Berks St.
Philadelphia, PA 19122



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