Date: Fri, 17 Jun 1994 11:36:00 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Rita.Echt" <20676RLE@MSU.EDU>
Subject: ALA/ALCTS Creative Ideas in Technical Services Discussion Group

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COOPCAT. Please excuse any duplication.

                           The ALCTS
        CREATIVE IDEAS IN TECHNICAL SERVICES DISCUSSION GROUP

                  invites you to be a participant
    in one of three lively, facilitated round table discussions
                       on the following topics:

*   THE ACQUISITIONS-CATALOGING INTERFACE
         At what point and how early in the process can the cataloging
information be supplied?  What implications are there for staffing,
acquisitions training/cataloging training, cataloging rules, authority
control, electronic formats?  And more!

*   PARAPROFESSIONAL-PROFESSIONAL RELATIONSHIPS
         What changes in roles have occurred in your library/what
effect have they had on techinical services operations?  This topic is back by
popular demand!

*   CONTRACT CATALOGING II/ OUTSOURCING
         Is contract cataloging cheaper? better? faster?  What are the
implications for quality control, authority control?  What are typical vendor
working conditions?  Tell us your views!

                       SUNDAY, JUNE 26, 1994
             OMNI International Hotel/  Wagner room
                          4:30-5:30
                     ALA ANNUAL CONFERENCE
                       Miami, FLORIDA

Co-Chairs
Laurel Jizba (Michigan State) and Karen Wilson (Stanford)

For more information about this Miami meeting contact:
Laurel Jizba, Michigan State University Libraries, East Lansing, MI 48824-1048
20676lj@msu.edu  voice: 517-353-8715