Posted on behalf of the Northern Ohio Technical Services Librarians Board; please pardon any duplication.

NOTSL will hold its Fall Meeting on Friday, April 27, 2018, at Cuyahoga County Public Library’s Parma-Snow Branch Auditorium, 2121 Snow Road in Parma, Ohio.

Journalpalooza: All you need to know about serials but were afraid to ask

Our speakers will discuss serials management and serials librarianship from a wide range of perspectives, theoretical and practical, academic and public.

• Steve Oberg (president of NASIG, Group Leader for Resource Description and Digital Initiatives at Wheaton College (Illinois), and LIS teacher at the iSchool at Illinois) will present A Kaleidoscope of Change: Developments and Trends in the Serials Landscape.
• Then, the University of Akron’s Frank J. Bove (Associate Professor, Bibliography and Electronic Resources Librarian) and Sean Kennedy (Assistant Professor of Practice, Bibliography and the Collections and Content Strategies Librarian) will present Changing Tides and Shifting Sands: Serials and Academic Libraries.
• Finally, the Akron-Summit County Public Library’s Francie Labriola (Continuing Resources Supervisor) and Monique Mason (manager of the Science & Technology division) will present Serials in the Public Library, or as our Patrons refer to them, Magazines.

Learn everything you need to know, but were afraid to ask, about trends in serial publication (print and online), managing serial collections, and providing access to serials.

Mark your calendar! Registration details to follow shortly.