The "ALCTS Role of the Professional in Academic Technical Services Discussion Group" is calling for speakers at its meeting at the ALA Midwinter Conference in [Orlando] on Sunday, June 27, 2004 from 2:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m.
The meeting will focus on issues and challenges facing technical services professionals in today's academic library environment. Within this topic there are a variety of potential areas of discussion including, but not limited to:
1) The relationship between professional and support staff in technical services;
2) Recruitment of librarians and technical services professionals;
3) The need for collaboration between technical and public services librarians;
4) Metadata and the Technical Services Librarian:
What steps have you taken to prepare yourself/your staff?
How have you incorporated this into your current workflow?
5) Making the transition from public services to technical services;
6) Other topics.
Each presentation should be approximately 15-20 minutes in length. There will be a question and answer period and additional discussion following the presentation. If you are interested in being a speaker for this meeting, please contact the chair, Brad Eden, ASAP. Please include the proposed topic and a brief outline of your talk.
We will also be voting on a new Vice-Chair for the committee. If you are interested, please contact Michael Wright, incoming Chair, at michael-wright@uiowa.edu
Brad Eden, Ph.D.
Head, Web and Digitization Services
University of Nevada, Las Vegas Libraries
beden@ccmail.nevada.edu
