ACQflash: Next ALCTS e-forum: Using Web 2.0 Tools to Enhance Technical Services Work

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Date: Thu, 13 May 2010 10:25:32 -0700
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Subject: Next ALCTS e-forum: Using Web 2.0 Tools to Enhance Technical 
Services Work
From: "Kristin E. Martin" <kmarti_at_uic.edu>
Date: Thu, 13 May 2010 08:02:31 -0500

Please join us for an e-forum discussion. It’s free and open to everyone!

Registration information is at the end of the message.

Using Web 2.0 Tools to Enhance Technical Services Work

May 19-20, 2010.

E-forum starts at 9 AM Eastern, 8 AM Central, 7 AM Mountain, and 6 AM 
Pacific time and runs until 5 PM Eastern, 4 PM Central, 3 PM Mountain, 
and 2 PM Pacific time each day.

Moderated by: Elizabeth Winter, Electronic Resources Coordinator, 
Georgia Institute of Technology and Sherab Chen, Coordinator for 
Non-Roman Cataloging, Ohio State University

Social software such as wikis, blogs, mashups, tagging, RSS feeds, 
instant messaging, Google Docs, etc. have been used successfully for 
several years now on the public services side of libraries. This forum 
is intended to be a two-day discussion where the following topics, as 
well as others can be addressed:

* How can technical services librarians and staff use social software to 
enhance their work?
* Are there applications of social software that can "bridge the gap" 
and increase communication between technical services and public 
services departments in libraries?
* What kinds of information problems do you see in your 
library/technical services unit(s) that could be solved by using Web 2.0 
tools?
* Are there specific types of social tools you're hoping to learn more 
about? Hopefully other libraries can share examples of their 
applications of these tools to help you get started.
* How are you (or your library's technical services unit(s)) making use 
of social software?

Elizabeth Winter is Electronic Resources Coordinator at Georgia 
Institute of Technology in Atlanta, GA. Previously she served as the 
Electronic Resources Librarian at Georgia State University, and has also 
worked in libraries at Florida State University and at Harvard Law 
School. She chairs the program planning committee for the Electronic 
Resources & Libraries annual conference, and serves as a member of the 
UK Serials Group’s Transfer Project working group and NISO's OpenURL 
Quality Metrics working group. She also regularly serves as an 
instructor for ALA ALCTS's Fundamentals of Electronic Resources 
Acquisitions course. She holds a B.A. in English from Furman University 
and an M.L.I.S. from the College of Information at Florida State 
University.

Sherab Chen is the Coordinator for Non-Roman Cataloging at the Ohio 
State University Libraries, Columbus, OH. His library work and research 
experiences extend to cataloging, authority control, and innovative 
tools and methods in cataloging training and management. Prior to his 
position at the Ohio State, he obtained his MLS from School of Library 
Information Science at University of Wisconsin-Madison, double majored 
in Tibetan Buddhist Studies at the Department of Languages and Cultures 
of Asia. He has studied in India for three years and obtained a MA in 
Buddhist Studies from Delhi University. He holds a BA in Philosophy from 
Peking University. He is the CJK NACO project liaison at the Ohio State 
University Library, and the vice-chair of ALCTS Cataloging & 
Classification Research and Publication Interests Group.

*What is an e-forum?*

An ALCTS e-forum provides an opportunity for librarians to discuss 
matters of interest, led by a moderator, through the e-forum discussion 
list. The e-forum discussion list works like an email listserv: register 
your email address with the list, and then you will receive messages and 
communicate with other participants through an email discussion. Most 
e-forums last two to three days. Registration is necessary to 
participate, but it's free. See a list of upcoming e-forums at: 
http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/alcts/confevents/upcoming/e-forum/index.cfm

*To register:*

Instructions for registration are available at: 
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do not need to register again, unless you choose to leave the email 
list. Participation is free and open to anyone.

-- 
Kristin E. Martin
Metadata Librarian
Catalog Department (MC 234)
2-390 Richard J. Daley Library
University of Illinois at Chicago
801 S. Morgan
Chicago, IL 60607
312-413-5052
312-413-0424 (Fax)
kmarti_at_uic.edu

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