Call for Facilitators: ALCTS Creative Ideas in Technical Services Discussion Group (ALA Midwinter)
The ALCTS Creative Ideas in Technical Services Discussion Group will meet at the ALA Midwinter Meeting in Seattle, Washington on Sunday, January 21, 2007, from 4:00pm - 6:00pm, in Room 303 of the Washington State Convention & Trade Center. Participants can join breakout discussions on the topics listed below. At the end of the discussion period, each group will give a short summary for the benefit of all attendees.
The discussion topics are:
1. Using Marc records from U.S. vendors and non-U.S. bibliographic agencies
2. Using genre terms in MARC records
3. Employing temporary librarians and other staff in technical services
4. Making the last five years of your career before retirement the best/most productive
5. Planning work space for technical services
6. Outsourcing journal check-in
7. Ordering on vendor websites/using vendor order records
8. Creating a catalog "front end" that integrates well in the Amazoogle environment
9. Creating a "virtual periodicals room" for browsing online journals
This year's chair is Carla Davis Cunningham, Temple University and the
vice-chair/chair-elect is Linda Lomker, University of Minnesota.
VOLUNTEER FACILITATOR AND RECORDERS SOUGHT: We are asking for volunteers to
facilitate and record the discussions at each topic table. If you would like to facilitate or record, please send your information to Carla Davis Cunningham at ccunni01@temple.edu (that's ccunni zero one). Indicate all the topics you would be willing to facilitate or record.
RESPONSIBILITIES OF VOLUNTEERS: FACILITATORS guide the discussion on the
topics at their tables, making sure everyone participates, and keeps it within the allotted time. The chair and vice-chair will provide facilitators with suggestions to serve as a discussion guide.
RECORDERS take notes during discussions and send a written report to the vice-chair
soon after the conference is over. These reports form the basis for the report the chair sends to ALCTS and Technical Services Quarterly.
Please send your volunteer interests to Carla Davis Cunningham (ccunni01@temple.edu) by January 16.
Thanks in advance!
Carla Davis Cunningham & Linda Lomker
Carla Davis Cunningham
Cataloger/Copy Cataloging Coordinator, Monographs
Paley Library (017-00)
Temple University
1210 W. Berks St.
Philadelphia, PA 19122
