The ALCTS Creative Ideas in Technical Services Discussion Group will hold
its ALA Midwinter Meeting in Boston as follows:

MIDWINTER 2005 CREATIVE IDEAS DISCUSSION GROUP:

Sunday, January 16, 2005, 4:30-5:30 p.m. HCC (Hynes Convention Center) 103

Participants can choose from the eight table topics listed below. The
co-chairs will provide a sheet of sub-topics to serve as a discussion guide
for each topic.

The co-chairs for this year are: Kalyani Parthasarathy, University of New
Orleans, and Jack Hall, University of Houston

VOLUNTEER FACILITATOR AND RECORDERS SOUGHT: We are seeking volunteers to
facilitate and record the discussions at the individual topic tables. If
you would like to facilitate or record, please send your information to
Jack Hall at jhall@uh.edu. Indicate all the table topics you would be
willing to work on (see list below) and whether you would rather facilitate
or record. The co-chairs will appreciate flexibility on your part as we
assign topics and roles.

RESPONSIBILITIES OF VOLUNTEERS: FACILITATORS guide the discussions on the
topics at their tables, making sure that everybody is encouraged to
participate, and seeing to it that the discussion ends in time for brief
summary reports to be made to the group at large. RECORDERS take notes
during the discussion and send a written report to the discussion group
co-chairs soon after the conference is over. Those reports will form the
basis of the report the co-chairs make to ALCTS, and the deadline is always
very soon after the conference.

At individual tables, the facilitator and the recorder can come to an
agreement over which of them will stand up for a couple of minutes at the
end of the meeting and give a brief report on their table's discussion to
all the attendees.

Individual table topics for discussions, which will last about 30 minutes:

1. Technical Services Organizational Structure

2. Technical Services Workflow

3. Relationship Between Technical Services and Public Services

4. Relationship Between Technical Services and the Systems Department

5. Gathering Collection and Usage Statistics

6. Electronic Resources

7. Acquisitions Workflow

8. Managing Authority Control

Discussion group co-chairs for 2005: Please send your volunteer interests
to Jack Hall, and thanks in advance!

Jack Hall, University of Houston jhall@uh.edu
Kalyani Parthasarathy kparthas@uno.edu

Jack Hall
114L University of Houston Libraries
Houston, TX  77204-2000
telephone:(713) 743-9687
e-mail: jhall@uh.edu
fax: (713) 743-9748