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ALCTS webinar: New Research on Staff and Leadership Development in Technical Services

Date: Wednesday, February 15, 2017

This webinar is 90 minutes in length and will begin at 11am Pacific, noon Mountain, 1pm Central, and 2pm Eastern time.

Session 2 of the five-session series Re-envisioning Technical Services: Identifying Leadership and Talent Management Best Practices

Description

Over the past several years, the area of technical services has evolved and the boundaries of technical services has become fuzzy. The scope of technical services is changing and interconnecting with other areas of the profession. Library technical services departments and staff now have unique and special training needs prompted by changing standards, new formats, and innovative technologies. In addition, technical services, like other departments in libraries, are facing leadership and succession planning issues. In 2015-2016, the Association of Library Collections & Technical Services President’s Program Committee designed an online survey that was sent out to librarians and staff in technical services (including Libraries in ARL, Oberlin, and the University Libraries Group) that asked 28 questions regarding the major issues faced by technical services including: What new skills are needed in technical services? How are libraries developing staff skills? How are libraries handling training needs? How are libraries addressing leadership (gaps and staff placed in new leadership roles)? How are libraries identifying emerging leaders? How are libraries dealing with succession planning?

The presentation will highlight the results of the online survey and provide detailed information regarding new skills, training, leadership and succession planning.

Who should attend?

Library and technical services managers and others interested in the future of technical services

Presenter: Cory Tucker the Head of Continuing Resources & Collections at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas Libraries. Cory recently served on the Association for Library Collections & Technical Services (ALCTS) President’s Program Committee and previously served as the Chair of the Collection Management Section of ALCTS. He received his BS in Finance from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville and his MLS from the University of South Florida.

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Registration Fees (per individual webinar or series of 5 webinars):  

ALCTS Member $43 ; series of 5 webinars: $172

Non-member $59 ; series of 5 webinars: $236

Group rate (members/non-members) $129 ; series of 5 webinars: $516  

For additional information and access to registration links, please go to the following website: http://www.ala.org/alcts/confevents/upcoming/webinar/021517

ALCTS webinars are recorded and registrants receive a link to the recording shortly following the live event.

For questions about registration, contact ALA Registration by calling 1-800-545-2433 and press 5 or email registration@ala.org. For all other questions or comments related to the webinars, contact Julie Reese, ALCTS Events Manager at 1-800-545-2433, ext. 5034 or alctsce@ala.org.

Posted on behalf of the ALCTS Continuing Education Committee.