I encourage our new members to get involved with ALCTS. There are many opportunities for you to participate and be part of this vibrant professional community. We need to ensure a pipeline for new leaders that will make ALCTS relevant, inclusive, diverse and—most importantly—welcoming to all.
Continue readingI consider myself to be a teacher—it doesn’t matter whether I’m staffing the research services desk, writing an article, doing collection development, or actually teaching a class. Teachers do a public good; they help make society better by continually learning and sharing their expertise with others.
Continue readingThe ALCTS e-Forum “Linked Data for the Rest of Us” took place on July 24–25, 2018. Anne Washington (coordinator of metadata services), Andrew Weidner (digital operations coordinator), and Xiping Liu (resource description librarian)—all of the University of Houston M.D. Anderson Library—moderated the discussion. Over 70 people posted around 200 messages during the two-day discussion.
Continue readingThe ALCTS Awards Ceremony took place at the ALA Annual Conference and Exhibition in New Orleans, Louisiana on Saturday, June 23, 2018. Mary Beth Thomson, ALCTS President, presided.
Continue readingThis past year ALCTS has been exploring a potential new path forward, trying to glance beyond the curve to determine how best to position ALCTS for the future. Our exploration of a possible path forward has included ongoing discussions with the Library & Information Technology Association (LITA) and the Library Leadership & Management Association (LLAMA) about the possibility of the three divisions forming a new single division.
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