Date: Mon, 15 Dec 1997 10:33:00 +0000
From: ELEANOR COOK <COOKEI@CONRAD.APPSTATE.EDU>
Subject: Please post - ALA meeting announcement

ALCTS/Acquisitions Section
Acquisitions Administrators Discussion Group
10:30-12:30 Sunday, 1/11/98
Hilton Riverside, Gr. Salon 12

Note that this group meets immediately after the Acq.Lib/Vendors of
Lib. Materials Discussion Group, which starts at 8:30 am in the same
room, so come for both!

Our topic will be:

YOUR BOSS IS NOT YOUR MOTHER, AND OTHER WAYS OF ALLEVIATING CONFLICT
IN THE WORKPLACE

This will be a discussion of a topic raised in a 1997
Charleston Conference session, "Managing Conflict in the Workplace."

This title is inspired by the book, "Your Boss is not Your Mother:
Creating Autonomy, Respect and Success at Work," by Brian DesRoches
NY: Morrow, c1995  ISBN 0-688-11763-5
[Thanks to Jack Montgomery, Univ. of Missouri Law Library for finding
this book!]

This book discusses how family systems theory can be applied to
relationships at work, how this relates to the "team" environment many
of us are expected to work in, and how to break free from role-playing
that bogs you down and keeps you from working effectively with your
coworkers.

If your acquisitions department, technical services team, etc. does
not always function as one big happy family or if your staff meetings
seem like dysfunctional Thanksgiving dinners, come to our discussion
group to hear how to break the cycle.

Eleanor Cook
Chair, Acquisitions Administrators DG
Serials Specialist
Belk Library                     704-262-2786
Appalachian State University     704-262-2773 (fax)
Boone, NC 28608                  cookei@appstate.edu

Arlene Sievers
Chair-Elect, Acquisitions Administrators DG
Head, Info Acquisition/Bibliographic Services Dept.
Case Western Reserve University
Kelvin Smith Library             216-368-3328
11055 Euclid Ave.                216-368-3669 (fax)
Cleveland, OH 44106              ax5230@po.cwru.edu

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