ALCTS E-Forum: Advocacy: What Does It Mean for Technical Services?
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*Advocacy: What Does It Mean for Technical Services?*
February 8-9, 2012
Hosted by the ALCTS Advocacy Task Force:
Mary Beth Weber, Chair
Eleanor Cook (ALCTS liaison to the ALA Advocacy Coordinating Group)
Duncan Stewart (ALCTS liaison to the ALA Legislative Assembly)
Louise Ratliff
Erin Boyd
Please join us for an e-forum discussion. It's free and open to everyone!
Registration information is at the end of the message.
Each day, sessions begin and end at:
Pacific: 7am -- 3pm
Mountain: 8am -- 2pm
Central: 9am -- 5pm
Eastern: 10am -- 6pm
Comments received in response to ALCTS' "Reshaping Our Future" survey
suggest that advocacy is an area ALCTS should examine. ALCTS President
Betsy Simpson has charged the ALCTS Advocacy Task Force to:
* Identify what ALCTS members mean by "advocacy"
* Define ALCTS' role in advocating for our functions or for libraries
* Recommend what steps, if any, ALCTS should take to strengthen its
advocacy efforts.
Additionally, the Task Force has been specifically asked to:
* Review comments from the Reshaping survey related to advocacy
* Identify existing ALCTS advocacy activities
* Consider new avenues for advocacy within ALCTS
* Assess the need for organizational change to support advocacy
In order to answer some of the questions posed by Betsy Simpson, the
Task Force is hosting an e-forum to get feedback directly from ALCTS
members.We welcome your input and concerns and look forward to engaging
in a meaningful dialogue with ALCTS members to fulfill our charge.
*Moderator Biographies*
*Erin E. Boyd *is the Cataloging/Reference Librarian at the Rosa Parks
Library at Troy University's Montgomery Campus in Alabama.She is
currently a member of the ALCTS CMS Education Committee, and serves Web
Coordinator for the ALCTS NMIG and Secretary for the Alabama Library
Association's Technical Services and Systems Round Table.
*Eleanor I. Cook* is Assistant Director for Collections and Technical
Services at East Carolina University in Greenville, North Carolina,
where she has been since 2008. Prior to this she was the Serials
Coordinator at Appalachian State University for 18 years.She has also
held positions at UNC-Chapel Hill, Georgia Institute of Technology and
North Carolina State University.She has held a number of leadership
roles over the years, most notably President of the North American
Serials Interest Group (2002-2003) and President of the North Carolina
Preservation Consortium (NCPC).She is also active in ALA and
NCLA.Eleanor serves as Chief Editor of ACQNET-L, a discussion list for
those interested in acquisitions issues and also is on the editorial
boards of /Serials Librarian/ and /Against the Grain/.
*Louise Ratliff* is the Social Sciences and Map Catalog Librarian at the
University of California, Los Angeles, where she catalogs print and
electronic resources as a BIBCO member of the Program for Cooperative
Cataloging (PCC).In 2010 she participated as a member of the PCC Task
Force to develop the BIBCO Standard Records for use by BIBCO
participants. Within ALCTS she has served as Chair of the Council of
Regional Groups (now ceased) and is currently the past-chair of the
ALCTS Affiliate Relations Committee (successor to the CRG).As Chair of
the CaMMS/MAGIRT Cataloging of Cartographic Resources Interest Group,
she recently led a discussion about /RDA/ issues related to map cataloging.
*Duncan Stewart* is a Cataloging Librarian at the University of Iowa
Libraries specializing in foreign language and special collections
cataloging. Duncan serves as the ALCTS representative to ALA's
Legislative Assembly and is also a member of ALA's Committee on
Legislation. He served two terms as chair of the Iowa Library
Association's Governmental Affairs Committee and currently sits on the
ILA Executive Board. Duncan has attended ALA Library Legislative Day in
Washington, D.C. three times as an Iowa representative and is an ACRL
federal legislative advocate.
*Mary Beth Weber* has been head of Central Technical Services at Rutgers
University Libraries since 2008.She has served in a number of positions
at Rutgers, including Head of Cataloging and Metadata Services.Mary Beth
served as the editor of the /ALCTS Newsletter Online/ 2005-2011, and
also served as an ex-officio member of the ALCTS Board of Directors and
the /LRTS /Editorial Board.She chaired of the ALCTS Audiovisual
Committee, the Copy Cataloging Discussion Group, and the Computer Files
Discussion Group (now the Electronic Resources Interest Group).Mary Beth
is the author of two books on cataloging nonbook resources and co-author
of /Describing Electronic, Digital, and Other Media Using AACR and RDA
/(Neal-Schuman, 2011).
**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://bit.ly/upcomingeforum.
**To register:**
Instructions for registration are available at:
http://bit.ly/eforuminfo. Once you have registered for one e-forum, you
do not need to register again, unless you choose to leave the email
list. Participation is free and open to anyone.
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