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ALCTS e-Forum: Changing Ideas, Roles, and Organizational Structures in Collection and Technical Services

May 21-22, 2019

Moderated by Alison M. Armstrong, Michael Arthur, and Rachelle McLain

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, discussion begins and ends at:

Pacific: 7 a.m. – 3 p.m.

Mountain: 8 a.m. – 4 p.m.

Central: 9 a.m. – 5 p.m.

Eastern: 10 a.m. – 6 p.m.

Changes in collection development and technical services lead to reorganization and the redefinition of roles. Join this e-Forum to share insights and tips with colleagues as the hosts facilitate a discussion about change while sharing their own experiences and insights.

Moderators

Alison M. Armstrong is the Collection Management Librarian at Radford University in Virginia. She received her B.A. in Literature from The University of North Carolina at Asheville and her MLIS from The University of North Texas. She teaches two ALCTS web courses: Fundamentals of Collection Development and Management and Fundamentals of Collection Assessment. She serves on the ALCTS Publications Committee.

Michael Arthur is Associate Professor and Head, Resource Acquisition & Discovery at The University of Alabama. Michael received his Bachelor of Science in 1991, and his Master of Library Science in 1999, from Indiana University in Bloomington. He received his Master of Public Administration from Old Dominion University in 2006. Michael held faculty positions at Ball State University, Old Dominion University and the University of Central Florida before joining The University of Alabama in 2015.

Rachelle McLain is the Collection Development Librarian (Interim) at the MSU Library in Bozeman, MT. She has worked in just about every type of library out there—public, community college, government docs, private, and has worked in both technical services and at the reference desk. After relocating to Bozeman in 2016, she landed at the MSU Library, where she focuses these days on providing library collections that benefit everyone in the great state of Montana.

What Is an e-Forum?

An ALCTS e-forum provides an opportunity for librarians to discuss matters of interest, led by a moderator, through the e-forum discussion list. The e-forum discussion list works like an email listserv: register your email address with the list, and then you will receive messages and communicate with other participants through an email discussion. Most e-forums last two to three days. Registration is necessary to participate, but it's free.

For information about upcoming e-forums, please visit http://www.ala.org/alcts/confevents/upcoming/e-forum

How to Register

You must register your email address to subscribe to or access an electronic discussion list on ALA's Mailing List Service. Once you have registered for one e-forum, you do not need to register again, unless you choose to leave the list. Find instructions for subscribing and unsubscribing online. (http://www.ala.org/alcts/confevents/upcoming/e-forum/sympa)

If you have any problems, please contact alcts-eforum-request@lists.ala.org.

*Posted on behalf of the ALCTS Continuing Education Committee.*