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See below for more information about our Annual Meeting, to register and to sign up for this or another of our optional afternoon tours.

Northern California Technical Processes Group (NCTPG) is pleased to announce:

Increasing Access, Increasing Effectiveness

82nd NCTPG Annual Meeting

San Francisco Public Library • Koret Auditorium

Friday May 10, 2019

Doors open at 9 am for registration & refreshments; program runs  9:30 am - 1 pm.

Register online to start or renew your membership and attend the Annual Meeting.  

$35 in advance, $40 at the door.

Increasing Access, Increasing Effectiveness

Libraries are always in flux: with changing times come new formats and collections. While sometimes older formats need to be retired, their content and legacy must be preserved in another way. The conundrum to figure out how to make it all available and accessible to users inspired the theme for this year’s annual meeting: Increasing Access, Increasing Effectiveness. Our speakers will share how they took on these challenges and revamped their collections and workflows to achieve the purpose all libraries share: making collections available and findable to users.

As always, we aim for a broad representation of types of libraries (public, academic, special) and a diverse representation of roles within and around technical services.  

Programs & Speakers

For presentation abstracts and more information, please see our website.

• Increasing Effectiveness in Technical Services for Public Libraries

Lisa Dale - Collection Services Manager, Sacramento Public Library

• Increasing Access at Niebyl Proctor Marxist Library through the Cataloging and Preservation of Leftist Thought in Monograph Collections  

Ari Kleinman - Cataloging Librarian & Brian McNeilly - Systems Librarian, Niebyl Proctor Marxist Library

• The Macro Challenges of Microformats: A Tale of Deaccessioning and Digitization

Sarah McClung - Head of Collection Development, University of California, San Francisco Library & Chris Freeland - Director of Open Libraries, Internet Archive

• Increasing Discoverability, Access and Circulation of Objects (Equipment and Realia) in Libraries

Cyrus Ford - Special Formats Librarian, University of Nevada, Las Vegas

Lightning talks

A round of 3 quick 5-minute presentations where speakers can discuss one change they have made in their library.

Problem Sharing Activity

• Have a problem? Someone (probably) has an answer!

Facilitated by Swetta Abeyta - Collection Management Analyst & Technical Services Specialist, Saint Mary’s University

Do you have any interesting workflow challenges or technical services questions?

When you join us at our annual meeting this year, please come thinking of ONE workflow-related issue you have that you need help with. Among our members' varied skill sets, there will probably be at least one person who has the knowledge you're looking for, and we're going to help you find them and a solution to your problem.

If you'd like a head start on networking, here is the link to the Google sheets where you can list and answer questions.

Happy Networking!

Tours

We continue our new tradition of hosting optional tours after the annual meeting.

SFPL History Center

Asian Art Museum  

SFMOMA

Please visit our Google survey for more information and to sign up for your tour in advance.

Registration & Information

Register online to start or renew your membership and attend the Annual Meeting.  
$35 in advance, $40 at the door.

For more information about the annual meeting and programs, please see our website.

If you have any questions about the event, please contact Rice Majors at ramajors@ucdavis.edu or you can email us at nctpg1@gmail.com.

This is not a San Francisco Public Library Sponsored Program. Please use contact information provided above.

Note: Refreshments are not allowed in the Auditorium.

About NCTPG

The Northern California Technical Processes Group (NCTPG) is an independent organization affiliated with the Association for Library Collections & Technical Services of the American Library Association. We host programs and forums for exchanging ideas about libraries and the technical processes that make them run.

The San Francisco Public Library

100 Larkin St., (at Grove).

Koret Auditorium, located on the Library’s lower level

Enter 30 Grove St., proceed down stairs

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