Re: ACQflash - Call for volunteers - ALCTS Creative Ideas in Tech Svs

Hi,

I would be interested in facilitating topic 6.  The acquisitions/collection
development workflow. My second choice would be topic 4.  Cross training
opportunities for technical services.

I am always happy to assist the Discussion Group.

Lorry Zeugner

At 08:00 AM 12/7/2000 -0800, you wrote:
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>Date: Thu, 7 Dec 2000 10:44:01 -0500
>To: Acqnet <acqnet-l_at_listserv.appstate.edu> 
>From: E. Gail McClenney (Virginia State University) <gmcclenn_at_vsu.edu>
>Subject: Call for volunteers - ALCTS Creative Ideas in Tech Svs
>
>The ALCTS Creative Ideas in Technical Services Discussion Group will meet
>at ALA Mid-Winter 2001 on Sunday, January 14th, from 4:30 - 5:30 pm.
>
>This discussion group meeting consists of round table discussions with
>eight to ten people participating at each table.  We are seeking
>volunteers to serve as facilitators and recorders at each discussion
>table.
>
>FACILITATORS introduce the topic, ask persons to introduce themselves,
>keep track of the meeting time, and, most importantly, keep the discussion
>moving and ensure that all are able to participate.  The co-chairs will
>supply a list of questions for each topic that facilitators can use to
>keep the discussion focused and moving.  Facilitators may also incorporate
>their own questions as well.  Experience has shown that very few tables
>make it through all the questions in the time provided!
>
>RECORDERS participate in the discussion and take notes of the discussion
>which will be forwarded to the co-chairs.  The co-chairs will use the
>notes to write a report which will be posted/published on the ALCTS Web
>site.  Facilitators and recorders will receive acknowledgement in the
>report.
>
>Please volunteer by January 5, 2001 by contacting Elizabeth G. McClenney,
>co-chair (gmcclenn_at_vsu.edu).  Let us know if you have a topic preference
>and if you would prefer to serve as a facilitator or recorder.
>
>[Do not reply to ACQNET; reply to Elizabeth G. McClenney at
>gmcclenn_at_vsu.edu.]
>
>For those who wish to enjoy what are always informative and lively
>discussions, please join us on Sunday!
>
>TOPICS:
>
>1.  Metadata (e.g. CORC, DUBLIN Core, Encoded Archival Description)
>
>--What are the benefits/challenges?
>
>--Training issues (internal, external)?
>
>--Who participates in the process (cataloging staff only?  reference staff
>and cataloging staff, systems staff?)
>
>--What levels of staff participate in the process? (paraprofessionals,
>professionals?)
>
>--Workflow issues (time, productivity, value-added?)
>
>2.  Competencies for professionals
>
>--What should they be?
>
>--How have job descriptions changed?
>
>--What roles are professionals now playing that they didn't have five
>years ago (or two years ago?)
>
>--What are the challenges that professionals face, what are the tools they
>need to assist them?
>
>--What is it that librarians feel they need to acquire to keep up? How do
>librarians keep up?  What is the level of support?
>
>3.  Electronic Resources (e-books, aggregator databases, e-journals,
>websites, etc.)
>
>--Licensing issues? (Who negotiates, who signs, what makes or breaks the
>signing of a license?)
>
>--Collection development/Acquisition issues? (Overlapping
>responsibilities? How are decisions made on the resources, who makes the
>decisions? What happens when there are problems, who deals?)
>
>--Archival issues?
>
>--Cataloging issues?
>
>--Budgetary effects?
>
>4.  Cross training opportunities for technical services
>
>--What has been the impetus for cross training?
>
>--Cross-training best practices (In which technical services areas has
>cross-training worked best?)
>
>--Best areas to train public services into technical services? (What are
>the benefits? Has it been tried? Has it worked?)
>
>--Cross-training into public services . (What are the benefits? Has it
>been tried? Has it worked?)
>
>--When has cross training not worked?
>
>5.  Serials and Microform Resources
>
>--Retention, who decides to retain what, for how long, and in which
>format?
>
>--Whose responsibility is it to manage the storage issue?
>
>--What are the alternatives?
>
>--How have new technologies affected the use of resources (e.g. networked
>print/scanning stations)
>
>--How have the electronic resources changed the way serials service staffs
>are trained?  Has training changed?
>
>6.  The acquisitions/collection development workflow
>
>--Is there overlap between the two areas?
>
>--How do faculty become involved and stay involved in the process?
>
>--How have electronic resources affected the process?
>
>--What processes/workflows are departments doing now that have not been
>done before
>
>--Assessment, when is it done, how often, by whom?  What are some good
>assessment tools and rules?
>
>--Has training of staff changed?
>
>Thank you in advance from the co-chairs.
>
>Edward Bergin
>Southwest Texas State University 
>San Marcos, TX
>eb13_at_swt.edu 
>
>and
>
>Elizabeth G. McClenney
>Associate Librarian for Technical Services
>Johnston Memorial Library
>Virginia State University
>Petersburg, VA
>(804)524-5580
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Lorenzo A. Zeugner, Jr.
Head Acquisitions Department
124 Hesburgh Library
University of Notre Dame
Notre Dame, IN. 46556-5629

Phone (219) 631-6189
Fax   (219) 631-8273
e-mail zeugner.1_at_nd.edu
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