Dear Colleagues:
Have you ever wanted to lead a conversation with colleagues from near and far about professional development topics, without leaving the comfort of your office? You can do this by hosting an ALCTS E-Forum!
E-Forums are two-day, moderated, electronic discussion forums that provide an opportunity for librarians to discuss matters of interest on an ALCTS e-mail listserv. These discussions are free of charge and available to anyone who wishes to subscribe to the listserv. They occur approximately once a month.
We are currently seeking discussion leaders (hosts) for e-Forums starting in September of 2016 and continuing through the fall. Hosts lead the e-mail discussion and provide summaries of what is discussed.
Here is the E-Forum website, for examples: http://www.ala.org/alcts/confevents/upcoming/e-forum
Additionally, some potential topics of interest including the following:
* Best practices for getting the most from your ILS
* E-resource licensing
* Managing gifts in the library
* Digitizing paper-based objects, current best practices in describing digital collections, and preservation issues that arise when digitizing paper-based collections
* The future of public libraries and printed books
* How libraries handle batch processing of records, including a summary of tools such as MarcEdit, how they're used, and what librarians are doing to train themselves to use these tools
* Visualizing workflows and other innovative approaches to workflows
If you are interested in hosting an e-Forum or have any questions, please contact alcts-eforum-request_at_lists.ala.org<mailto:alcts-eforum-request_at_lists.ala.org> .
Best wishes,
Nadine Ellero & Rebecca Goldfinger, E-Forum Co-Coordinators
alcts-eforum-request_at_lists.ala.org<mailto:alcts-eforum-request_at_lists.ala.org>
Received on Wed Aug 03 2016 - 15:57:05 EDT