The ACRL Technical Services Interest Group focuses on the special needs and interests of all technical services workers in academic libraries. 

 

We are looking for speakers to present in a lightning round format at the ALA Midwinter in Boston on Saturday, January 9, 2016 from 4:30 – 5:30 pm. Presentations should be no more than 5 minutes long. We are especially interested in technical services in the academic library setting (electronic resources management, acquisitions, serials, cataloging, or other functional areas). 

 

Possible topics include:

• E-book licensing and accessibility / e-reserves
• Workflow adjustments
• Institutional repository and Digital assess management metadata and inoperability
• Project management skills for tech services staff
• Trends away from employing students as workflows change
• Implementing assessment tools and techniques in Technical Services
• Technical Services leadership and recruiting a new generation of TS managers
• Reskilling Technical Services staff to address emerging area of TS work (e.g., metadata creation for digital projects)
• Getting buy-in from faculty on collection weeding projects

 

 

Please email proposals to Natalie Bulick at Natalie.bulick@indstate.edu by Friday, December 4, 2015. Include the following:  
• Presentation title 
• Brief (150 words or less) summary of the proposed presentation 
• Name and position of presenter 
• Email address of presenter

 

We will notify you by Friday, December 11, if your presentation has been selected.

 

We look forward to hearing from you!

 

Best,

Erin, on behalf of the ACRL Technical Services Interest Group

 

Erin Leach

Head of Serials Cataloging

University of Georgia Libraries

320 South Jackson Street

Athens, Georgia 30602

(706) 542-0591

eleach@uga.edu