The program on “Transitioning Technical Services: Training Staff to Meet Evolving Needs” was held on Sunday, June 25 in McCormick Place. The program featured three speakers and provided strategies for designing and implementing training programs, and how to build upon the traditional cataloging expertise to bring library staff into a linked data environment.
Continue readingThe Program for Cooperative Cataloging (PCC) Participants Meeting was held on Sunday, June 25, 2017, in McCormick Place. The theme was “The Future of Subject Access in a Linked Data Environment Panel Discussion.”
Continue reading“Redesigning Technical Services for the 21st Century Library” was held during the 2017 ALA Annual Conference on June 24. It was co-sponsored by the ALCTS Technical Services Workflow Efficiency Interest Group and the Technical Services Managers in Academic Libraries Interest Group.
Continue readingOn Sunday, June 25, 2017, the Association for Library Collections and Technical Services (ALCTS) Metadata Interest Group sponsored “Metadata Migration: Managing Methods and Mayhem” along with co-sponsors ALCTS Creative Ideas in Technical Services Interest Group and ALCTS Cataloging and Metadata Management Section (CaMMS) Cataloging Norms Interest Group. The program featured two speakers discussing their experiences with evolving procedures and tools around metadata migrations. Of note, the audio and slides are available on the conference event page.
Continue readingThe Eighth Annual Collection Management and Research Forum, sponsored by ALCTS and ALCTS Collection Management Section (CMS) was held at the 2017 ALA Annual Conference in Chicago, Illinois on Sunday, June 25. The forum focused on two projects. The first presentation was titled “DDA Beyond the Trigger: Evaluating the Sustainability and Use of an E-BOOK DDA Plan” and presented by Lindsay Barnett, the Collection Development and Assessment Librarian at the College of Charleston. The second presentation was “Citation Analysis of Communication Studies Journals: Actionable Knowledge for the Communication Librarian” and presented by Lisa Romero, the Communications Librarian and Associate Professor of Library Administration at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
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