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Serials, Staffing, and Workflow
June 15-16, 2011
Hosted by Jennifer Sippel and Christine Stachowicz
Please join us for an e-forum discussion. It’s free and open to everyone!
Registration information is at the end of the message.
Each day, sessions begin and end at:
Pacific: 6am – 2pm
Mountain: 7am – 3pm
Central: 8am – 4pm
Eastern: 9am – 5pm
Description
While working with
serials has always required a tolerance for change and ambiguity, the
transition from print to electronic subscriptions has introduced workflow and
staffing issues that demand flexibility. In this e-forum, we will explore
how libraries of different sizes and varying Technical Services configurations
have adapted their workflows and staffing in response to format changes, budget
cuts and other pressures affecting the serials life cycle.
We
will address topics such as:
Jennifer
Sippel
has been a faculty Librarian and Instructor at Minneapolis Community &
Technical College (MCTC) Library since 2007, and has overseen the library’s
serials collection since 2009. In addition to teaching the Information Studies
department’s two-credit Information Literacy course (INFS 1000) and the
introductory course (LIBT 1100) in the fully online Library Information
Technology program, she is currently working in collaboration with her
colleagues on implementing an open source Electronic Resources Management
system, PALSconnect: http://www.mnpals.org/content/efficient-e-resource-management-0.
This summer, she is teaching a course on Serials Management for the recently
ALA-accredited MLIS program at the University of St. Catherine (her alma
mater), and is presenting a poster session on the topic of “Print Periodicals Processing”
at her first NASIG conference in St. Louis. A graduate of the 2009 MLA
Institute for Leadership Excellence (MILE: http://mnlibraryassociation.org/mile-2009/),
she has been an active member of the MILE 2011 planning committee and regularly
presents regionally on topics ranging from Assessment to Zines.
Christine
Stachowicz is
Head of E-Resources & Serials Management (ESM) at The University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill. ESM is one of three departments established in
conjunction with the June 2008 reorganization of the Acquisitions Department
and the Catalog Department, in which Christine had previously served as Serials
Access Librarian and Catalog Management Librarian. ESM is responsible for
acquiring, cataloging and managing access to electronic resources and serials
in all formats. The department continues to evolve in response to
subscription cancellations and format shifts, changes in binding policies, and
growth in the acquisition of e-resources and vendor MARC records. Between
earning her MSLS degree at UNC-Chapel Hill’s School of Information and Library
Science and returning to work at the University Library, Christine served as
Reference Librarian/Head of Collection Access at Randolph-Macon College in
Ashland, VA.
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Posted on behalf of the ALCTS
Continuing Education Committee