ACQflash: ALCTS Program Announcement, Consultants for Technical Services: What Do They Do and How Can They Help?

Subject: ALCTS Program Announcement, Consultants for Technical Services: 
What Do They Do and How Can They Help?
From: Lila Angeline Ohler <lohler_at_umd.edu>
Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2011 16:05:52 -0400


Consultants for Technical Services:
What Do They Do and How Can They Help?

Sunday June 26, 2011, 4pm-5:30pm
MCC (Morial Convention Center) -Rm 274

Have you always wondered what consultants can do for technical services 
operations? Come to this program to find out. A panel consisting of 
consultants and of librarians who have employed consultants will talk 
about the work of consulting and the results that can be expected.

Panel Speakers include:

Ruth Fischer, Partner (R2 Consulting, LLC)
Consultants in the Library: Uh Oh!
A realistic look at the potential benefits and potential drawbacks of 
hiring a consultant.

Andrew White PhD (Interim Dean and Director of Libraries and Director of 
Health Sciences Library, Stony Brook University)
Is 3 Really a Crowd? The libraries at Stony Brook University are in the 
midst of organizational and administrative change, initiated by the 
first of 3 different consulting groups. After the first review, a second 
round of consultants assisted with the first phase of organizational 
restructuring, while a third group is assisting with a merger of two 
administratively separate campus libraries as part of a campus-wide 
review of operations. How could the information from three different 
consulting groups impact the traditional "back-office" units of academic 
research libraries?

Ruth Kinnersley MSLIS, EdD (Director of Library Services, Waggoner Library)
Using a consultant for re-organizing Technical Services – a small 
university library’s experience
When our technical services librarian announced her retirement after 43 
years of service, we knew that we needed some outside assistance in 
re-organizing Technical Services. Our main goal was to increase our 
efficiency. This presentation will review our experiences using a 
consultant and will include the process, the result, observations, and 
recommendations.


Lila (Angie) Ohler
Head of Acquisitions
McKeldin Library
University of Maryland
College Park, MD 20742
301 405-9308 (phone)
301 314-1200 (fax)
lohler_at_umd.edu









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