Facilitators needed for MidWinter Discussion Group CYNTHIA M. COULTER - (319) 273-2801 04 Dec 1995 19:26 UTC
As co-chairs of the ALCTS Creative Ideas in Technical Services Discussion Group, we would like to solicit facilitators to assist with the round table discussions for the Discussion Group's meeting at the ALA MidWinter Conference in San Antonio, Texas. The Discussion Group will meet on Sunday, January 21 from 4:30 to 5:30 p.m. If you have not attended a meeting of this discussion group before, the meetings consist of 13 round table discussions on 4 different topics. Facilitators at each table assist in the free flow of discussion by asking persons at that table to introduce themselves, distribute a roster for attendees to record their names and addresses, keep track of meeting time, keep the discussion moving, and make sure participants complete the evaluation form. Facilitators will also take notes of the discussion and will prepare a report of the discussion. The co- chairs will use those reports for an article (in which the facilitators will receive acknowledgement) in a professional journal. The co-chairs will develop a list of questions for each topic that facilitators will use in helping the discussion to keep moving. Experience has shown, though, that very few tables make it through all the questions in the time provided! The topics for MidWinter's meeting are: 1. cross-training a. reasons and purposes b. how to do c. how it has worked 2. the interface between technical services and library systems a. who has responsibility for library systems in libraries b. is their background in computer science or librarianship c. how are communications handled between the two areas d. how are priorities established 3. electronic journals - acquisition and retention decisions a. how do you decide which titles to obtain b. who has responsibility for obtaining the issues c. what retention options have you considered (local electronic archive, remote access to archives, paper archives, how long retained, etc.) d. do you keep paper copies if also published in electronic form 4. the impact of electronic resources on technical services a. how to decide what electronic resources to catalog b. does your library maintain URLs in your local catalog for WWW sources c. do you catalog titles available in a full-text database d. do you catalog titles indexed on CD-ROM that you don't have in your print collection If you would like to serve as facilitator, please respond to: Cynthia M. Coulter Marilyn Mercado cynthia.coulter@uni.edu marilyn.mercado@uni.edu Phone: (319) 273-2801 Phone: (319) 273-2781