RE: Medium Heads at Midwinter (and Annual)

["Leathem, Cecilia Anne" <cleathem@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello, Jack,

I read with interest your proposed discussion topic for the Annual meeting
in Toronto.  I am volunteering to be a presenter, if you still need one.
Although I do not have a specific talk ready at this time, I am thinking of
discussing something around the theme: "There is a reason the word 'service'
is part of the Technical Service department."  I would include my personal
philosophy of how our work impacts the patron (or how it SHOULD serve to
impact the patron) and also include several examples of projects we have
undertaken at the Richter Library to improve public access to our materials
and to assist reference services.

You may be interested to know that I recently gave a presentation at ALA
Midwinter in New Orleans at a meeting of the ALCTS Role of the Professional
in Academic Technical Services Discussion Group.  The subject under
discussion was the role of technical services professionals in responding to
the budget and staffing challenges currently facing academic libraries and
the role of technical services librarians in planning for and managing
change.

I hope to see you in Philadelphia.

Cecilia Leathem
Head, Catalog Dept.
Otto G. Richter Library
University of Miami

cleathem@xxxxxxxxxx





-----Original Message-----
From: Jack Hall [mailto:jhall@xxxxxxxxxx] 
Sent: Tuesday, December 10, 2002 1:41 PM
To: innopac@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Fwd: Medium Heads at Midwinter (and Annual)





>This is an announcement for Midwinter in Philadelphia, and a call for
>presenters for Annual, in Toronto.
>
>ALA Midwinter, 2003, Philadelphia
>
>Heads of Technical Services of Medium-Sized Academic Libraries 
>Discussion
>Group
>
>Saturday, January 25, 9:30-11 a.m., PCC (Pennsylvania Convention 
>Center),
>room 201C
>
>Please join us for our discussion, and be ready to participate. You
>definitely do not need to be a "head" of technical services, or even *in* 
>technical services, and your head can be larger or smaller than "medium." 
>The topic for the next year or so is
>
>How technical services can, should, and does respond and cooperate when
>faced with needs and demands from other library divisions, especially 
>public services.
>
>At Midwinter, the case study approach will be used. Participants will 
>be
>divided into small groups of 6 to 10; each group will have 30-45 minutes 
>to discuss a case study illustrating a demand made on technical services 
>by another library division: initial response to the demand; planning; 
>implementing; evaluating. Afterwards, each small group will briefly 
>present their case and findings to the large group for comments and 
>discussion.
>
>At Annual, we want to have about three presentations on the topic of
>technical services cooperation with public services, or other library 
>divisions, and this message is also a call for presenters. The Discussion 
>Group's meeting at Annual will take place Saturday, June 21, 9:30-11 a.m.
>
>Please volunteer to be a presenter and share your knowledge and 
>experience
>with your colleagues; contact Jack Hall (jhall@xxxxxxxxxx) with your ideas for 
>presentations. Some possible broad areas for presentation might be (but 
>are not limited to):
>
>1. How our library (or technical services) is organized to promote
>cooperation
>2. How to staff the library to promote cooperation, including having some 
>or all librarians perform functions common to both public and technical 
>services
>3. Special projects that have required technical services cooperation with 
>public services, or other library divisions
>
>Thanks very much; see you at Midwinter!
>
>Jack

Jack Hall
114L University of Houston Libraries
Houston, TX  77204-2000
telephone:(713) 743-9687
e-mail: jhall@xxxxxxxxxx
fax: (713) 743-9748

--
This message was distributed through the Innovative Users Group INNOPAC list
Public replies:  INNOPAC@xxxxxxxxxx Update your subscription options:
http://innopacusers.org/list/listinfo/innopac