POTOMAC TECHNICAL PROCESSING LIBRARIANS
84th ANNUAL MEETING
October 17, 2008
9 a.m. - 3 p.m.
Center for Learning and Technology
Bowie State University
Bowie, Maryland

Tide or Tsunami? Riding the Wave of Change in Technical Services

Keynote Speaker: Pamela Bluh

 

Goldstein Director of Information Processing University of Pennsylvania

An oldie, but goodie

The newsletter for ALCTS; published 6 times annually

"provider of books and supporting collection management and technical services"

Big Heads @ LC with recent minutes and round-robin reports

Big Heads @ ALCTS

Web site highlights the special events surrounding the ALCTS 50th anniversary, including Midwinter and Annual meeting, and the 2 day Anniversary National Conference, immediately preceding ALA Annual in June 2007

University of Minnesota Library process improvement report, etc.

Peggy Johnson wrote to Big Heads:

"Some of you have been interested in our process improvement project, Selection to Access (S2A), which led to changes in our operations beginning with selection, through the processes in TS and on to marking and shelving. Our final (I hope) report has been posted at http://wiki.lib.umn.edu/Staff/SelectionToAccessImplementation.

We are about to begin a second project, which we are calling S2A: The Sequel. It will focus on serials and government documents."

 

ALCTS has established a new blog.   The primary focus appears to be discussion of "controversial statementsts", which will also be the focus of the 2007 Midiwnter Forum "Definitely Digital: an Exploration of the Future of Knowledge on the Occasion of the 50th Anniversary of ALCTS."