GRAB BAG: THE EVERYDAY ISSUES OF TECHNICAL SERVICES WORK. A REPORT OF THE TECHNICAL SERVICES MANAGERS IN ACADEMIC LIBRARIES INTEREST GROUP, AMERICAN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION MIDWINTER MEETING, CHICAGO, JANUARY 2015

摘要

The meeting of the Technical Services Managers in Academic Libraries Interest Group at the 2015 American Library Association (ALA) Midwinter Meeting provided an opportunity for nearly 50 participants to meet with colleagues in small group discussions at roundtables. The roundtable topics reflected the diverse issues with which technical services managers and their staff deal every day: Table 1: Library-vendor relations. Table 2: Duplication of effort at libraries using a catalog and a discovery layer. Table 3: The effects of Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) compliance on technical services work. Table 4: Linked data-is anyone using it yet? Table 5: Marketing technical services. Table 6: In-house collaborative work, or getting the work done with less staff. Participants chose a table based on a topic and were encouraged to let the conversation flow in the direction most useful to them. Each roundtable discussed their topic for about an hour then reported a summary of their discussions to the larger group. Special thanks go to the note takers and reporters at each table as their work is incorporated into the following text. The summaries showed that the complex and changing nature of the work of technical services departments in combination with sometimes dramatic shifts in the wider library ecosystem continue to present challenges but also provide opportunities for needed change and growth.