ALA Meeting Announcement (Patricia Kantner) ERCELAA@ctrvax.Vanderbilt.Edu 10 Jun 1997 13:36 UTC
Date: Tue, 10 Jun 1997 07:50:39 -0500 From: Patricia Kantner <kantner@OMNI.CC.PURDUE.EDU> Subject: ALA Meeting Announcement This announcement has been cross-posted to ACQNET, AUTOCAT, LIBADMIN, and SERIALST. Please excuse the duplication. ALCTS Heads of Technical Services of Medium-Sized Academic Libraries Discussion Group Saturday, June 28, 9:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Grand Hyatt Hotel, Farallon Room Topic: Technical Services Redesign Revisited: Librarian/Vendor Perspectives 9:30-11:00 Catherine Tierney (Stanford University) will present an update on Stanford's Redesign Project, touching on such issues as workflow reconfiguration, staff reallo- cation, outsourcing, and the effect of implementing a new automated system on the redesign process. Lee Leighton (Univ. of California at Berkeley) and Cecily Johns (Univ. of California at Santa Barbara) will discuss the progress of redesign at their libraries. A general Q&A/discussion period will follow the presentations. 11:20-12:30 Representatives from four vendors (Bob Schatz, Academic Book Center; Jeff Calcagno, Blackwell North America; Marda Johnson, OCLC; and Lynne Branche Brown, Yankee Book Peddler) will react to the librarians' comments and present their views on the implications of redesign. Their focus will include changes in library/ vendor and vendor/vendor relationships, how the move to outsourcing is changing vendor operations, and changes in pricing models. General discussion will follow. For further information, contact: Patricia Kantner, Chair Cynthia Clark, Vice-Chair/Chair-Elect Head, Technical Services Asst. Univ. Librarian for Technical Services Purdue University Libraries University of California, Irvine 1534 Stewart Center, Rm. 372 P.O. Box 19556 West Lafayette, IN 47909-1534 Irvine, CA 92713-9556 Phone: (765) 494-2812 Phone: (714) 824-7221 Fax: (765) 494-0156 Fax: (714) 824-2059 E-mail: kantner@purdue.edu E-mail: cclark@uci.edu ======================================================================= Patricia Kantner Phone: (765) 494-2812 Head, Technical Services Fax: (765) 494-0156 Purdue University Libraries E-mail: kantner@purdue.edu 1534 Stewart Center, Room 372 West Lafayette, IN 47907-1534 A