ACRL Technical Services Interest Group at ALA Midwinter

From: Mingyan Li <mli_at_nyob>
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 2015 12:25:18 -0600
To: NGC4LIB_at_LISTSERV.ND.EDU
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The ACRL Technical Services Interest Group will sponsor lightning round 
presentations and a business meeting at ALA Midwinter in Boston. This 
meeting will take place on Saturday, January 9, 2016 from 4:30 – 5:30 pm 
at the Seaport Hotel, Plaza Ball Room A. The lightning rounds will focus 
on a variety of topics, all related to the work of technical services 
librarians in the academic setting.


Lightning round presentations:

Preparing Linked Data for Digital Repositories (Sai Deng, University of 
Central Florida)

Technical Services librarian as project manager (Nastia Guimaraes, 
University of Notre Dame)

Using Process Mapping to uncover workflow inefficiencies (Christine 
Dulaney, American University)

Adventures in ETD metadata wrangling: Metadata workflows for a mass 
retrospective thesis and dissertation digitization project at the 
University of Massachusetts Amherst (Meghan Banach Bergin, University of 
Massachusetts Amherst)

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly Scans and Metadata: Employing students as 
workflows change in Academic Library Technical Services Departments 
(Linda Evans, Henderson State University)

The Value of Soft Skills in Technical Services (Penny Lochner, 
Muhlenberg College)



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Mingyan Li
Received on Mon Dec 14 2015 - 13:26:45 EST