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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="color:black">Join ALCTS Creative Ideas in Technical Services Interest Group for several exciting discussions at ALA Midwinter 2018!</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><b><span style="color:black">Location:
</span></b><span style="color:black">Colorado Convention Center, Room 201</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><b><span style="color:black">Date and time:
</span></b><span style="color:black">Saturday, February 10th - 4:30-5:30 pm</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><b><span style="color:black">Format: </span>
</b><span style="color:black">Round-table<b> </b>discussions lead by multiple facilitators. Choose the one that interests you most. All tables will summarize their discussions and report back to the larger group at the end of the session. We are also looking
for volunteer note-takers for each of these - please e-mail either Whitney Buccicone (</span><a href="mailto:bucciw@uw.edu"><span style="color:#1155CC">bucciw@uw.edu</span></a><span style="color:black">) and Timothy Ryan Mendenhall (</span><a href="mailto:tmendenhall@fordham.edu"><span style="color:#1155CC">tmendenhall@fordham.edu</span></a><span style="color:black">)
if interested.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><b><span style="color:black">Round-table Discussion Topics:</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><b><span style="color:black">Topic</span></b><span style="color:black">: Transforming library metadata into linked data – a new future for technical services</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><b><span style="color:black">Presenter</span></b><span style="color:black">: Lihong Zhu, Washington State University</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><b><span style="color:black">Summary</span></b><span style="color:black">: The rise of linked data has sparked discussion, exploration, and development around the intersection of linked data and technical services.
“Right now, the information found in both library catalogs and on the web is generally human-readable and understandable, but not optimized for computer understanding. Text is put up on the web without any kind of markup to give it structural and semantic
meaning. This prevents the automatic linking of one informational bit to another. Fixing that issue is the focus of the Semantic Web in general and linked data in particular.” (Hastings, R. (2015). Linked data in libraries: Status and future direction. Computers
in Libraries., 35, 12.)</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><b><span style="color:black">Topic</span></b><span style="color:black">: Revitalizing the Group Dynamic – Conversations Across Departments and Institutions</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><b><span style="color:black">Presenters</span></b><span style="color:black">: Susanne Markgren (Manhattan College) and Maureen Clements (Mercy College)</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><b><span style="color:black">Summary</span></b><span style="color:black">: This roundtable discussion will address the benefits and challenges of building and sustaining relationships with tech services colleagues
in other institutions as well as with colleagues in other departments. We will discuss the importance of harnessing a “stronger together” mantra to support and learn from one another, whether we work in a large department or in a department of one. In this
discussion, we want to explore how to create and sustain successful relationships outside our own institutions and departments – through consortia, associations, discussion groups, committees, teams – and how we can create new channels of communication (both
in-person and online) in order to share expertise, ideas, and innovations with like-minded librarians and staff, and to keep the conversations flowing.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><b><span style="color:black">Topic</span></b><span style="color:black">: Reimagining technical services for the 21st century library</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><b><span style="color:black">Presenter</span></b><span style="color:black">: Sofia Slutskaya, Georgia Tech Library
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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><b><span style="color:black">Summary</span></b><span style="color:black">: The library of the 21st century is service-focused and adaptable to the changing expectations of users. Libraries are retooling their organizational
structure, including their traditional technical services functions. The Georgia Tech library has transformed its technical services department, now called Infrastructure, in order to absorb many other “behind the scenes” functions such as patron management,
archival collections processing, adding documents to the digital repository, etc. This organizational change brings up two significant questions: how to redesign existing workflows to incorporate new functions, and how to train staff to preform new functions.
Georgia Tech’s approach is to use a supply chain methodology, with tasks assigned according to needs and staff availability, and with everybody in the department being trained to perform every task. This multi-year endeavor has involved defining basic and
advanced tasks and skills required for infrastructure staff, mapping workflows and looking for efficiencies, creating standard work documentation and posting it centrally, and engaging in an intense training and on-the-job practice effort.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><b><span style="color:black">Topic</span></b><span style="color:black">: Mentorship as Collaboration for Technical Services Librarians</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><b><span style="color:black">Presenter</span></b><span style="color:black">: Laura Evans, Binghamton University</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><b><span style="color:black">Summary</span></b><span style="color:black">: Purposeful mentoring in libraries constitutes an important factor in developing library staff roles and fostering future leaders in the field.
More traditional versions of formal and informal mentoring programs are now being augmented with newer types of mentoring such as peer and virtual approaches gaining in popularity. How do mentoring programs facilitate collaboration and relationship-building
for technical services librarians? Both library and association-based mentoring programs aim to build relationships between librarians, so let’s discuss whether and how librarians in technical services areas can benefit in terms of cross-departmental and cross-institutional
collaboration. The discussion will focus on whether the mentor/mentee relationship can be successful in breaking down silos and how to identify possible collaborative interests.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><b><span style="color:black">Topic</span></b><span style="color:black">: Supporting technical services staff at all levels</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><b><span style="color:black">Presenter</span></b><span style="color:black">: Sarah Hovde, Folger Shakespeare Library</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><b><span style="color:black">Summary</span></b><span style="color:black">: How can technical services workers ensure that all of their coworkers are supported and feel engaged with their work, regardless of experience
level or professional credentials?</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black;background:white">206-543-1828<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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