Section: Conference News

Janetta Waterhouse presented the program “Leading Transformational Change in Technical Services” at the 2019 ALA Annual Conference in Washington, DC. The presentation focused on four themes: overview of change management, overview of leadership, closer look at competencies, and leading change.

At the 2019 ALA Annual Conference, the program “I’m Gonna Live Forever! Assessing the Preservation of Digital Collections” explored a new digital preservation assessment training program available for any sized institution. Why is assessing your digital collections important? So you can detail your digital preservation success, report areas that need further growth, and identify challenges that could prevent that growth. Through the assessment process, institutions can prioritize next steps for improved long-term access to their digital collections with a digital preservation plan.

Monica Rysavy and Russell Michalak of Goldey-Beacom College (GBC) gave a presentation at the 2019 ALA Annual Conference in Washington, DC, on their library textbook program. Rather than using open-source textbooks, GBC partnered with a textbook rental college to reduce students’ textbook costs.