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At 08:36 AM 6/10/97 -0500, you wrote:
>Date: Tue, 10 Jun 1997 07:50:39 -0500
>From: Patricia Kantner <kantner@OMNI.CC.PURDUE.EDU>
>Subject: ALA Meeting Announcement
>
>        ALCTS Heads of Technical Services of Medium-Sized
>                Academic Libraries Discussion Group
>                Saturday, June 28, 9:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m.
>                Grand Hyatt Hotel, Farallon Room
>
> Topic: Technical Services Redesign Revisited: Librarian/Vendor
>                        Perspectives
>
> 9:30-11:00     Catherine Tierney (Stanford University) will present
>                an update on Stanford's Redesign Project, touching on
>                such issues as workflow reconfiguration, staff reallo-
>                cation, outsourcing, and the effect of implementing a
>                new automated system on the redesign process.  Lee
>                Leighton (Univ. of California at Berkeley) and Cecily
>                Johns (Univ. of California at Santa Barbara) will
>                discuss the progress of redesign at their libraries.
>                A general Q&A/discussion period will follow the
>                presentations.
>
> 11:20-12:30    Representatives from four vendors (Bob Schatz, Academic
>                Book Center; Jeff Calcagno, Blackwell North America;
>                Marda Johnson, OCLC; and Lynne Branche Brown, Yankee
>                Book Peddler) will react to the librarians' comments
>                and present their views on the implications of
>                redesign.  Their focus will include changes in library/
>                vendor and vendor/vendor relationships, how the move
>                to outsourcing is changing vendor operations, and
>                changes in pricing models.  General discussion will
>                follow.
>
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