Revised: Do you know a library that has merged Documents with Technical Services (Larry Romans) Stephen Clark 15 Jan 1999 18:48 UTC
---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Fri, 15 Jan 1999 12:38:51 +0600 From: Larry Romans <Romans@LIBRARY.VANDERBILT.EDU> Subject: Revised: Do you know a library that has merged Documents with Technical Services I apologize. Due to sloppy cutting and pasting, it appeared that I was interested only in hearing from librarians who had a positive experience merging with Documents. I'm also interested in hearing from librarians with a negative experience. Thanks for any information you can provide to me. Please send your responses to me rather than to the list. Larry Romans > Do you know cataloger or other technical services librarian or an > administrator at a library that has merged a previously separate > government documents department with technical services? > > Do you know cataloger or other technical services librarian or an > administrator at a library that has created a separate government > documents department whose functions previously had been part of > technical services? > > The Government Documents Round Table (GODORT) Program Committee is > seeking panelists for its 1999 program at ALA Conference. We want to > have as a panelist an administrator, a technical services librarian, a > reference librarian, and a documents librarian for whom merging > government documents departments with other departments in the library > has been a positive experience. We also want to have as a panelist > another librarian in each category for whom merging the departments > has been a positive experience. > > Details about the program are below: > > Name of group: Government Documents Round Table > > Program Day: Monday > Program Date: June 28, 1999 > Program Time: 9:30 a.m. - 12 noon > Program title: "To Merge or Not to Merge--What Are the Questions?: > Integrating Documents Units into Reference or Technical Services." > > Program description: A moderated panel discussion of the pros and cons > of integrating government documents functions into reference and > technical services departments and of what factors and strategies can > help if the transition is necessary. Includes speakers from > administration, government documents, reference, and technical > services. Topics include training, acquisitions and serial cataloging, > staffing levels, automation issues, levels of reference service, > coordination of documents collection development with the rest of the > collection, and user perspectives. > > Thanks for any information you can provide to me. Please send your > responses to me rather than to the list. > Larry Romans, Political Science Bibliographer and Head, Government Information Services, Central Library, Vanderbilt University, 419 - 21st Ave. South Nashville TN 37240-0007 phone (615) 322-2838; FAX (615) 343-7451 E-mail (office): ROMANS@LIBRARY.VANDERBILT.EDU E-mail (home): romans@ibm.net