---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Fri, 15 Mar 1996 15:17:13 -0800 From: Seek <lecklund@IX.NETCOM.COM> Subject: [Fwd: Outsourcing!] OUTSOURCING: BY YOU, FOR YOU, OR IN SPITE OF YOU May 3, 1996 8:30 AM - 4:00 PM Industry Hills Sheraton City of Industry, CA You've read the headlines. "International Corporate Study Finds 93% to Outsource by Year 1998: 91% Who Outsource Satisfied" "Drucker Says in Ten Years Companies Will Outsource All Work that Does Not Career-Ladder Up to Senior Management" "Baker & McKenzie Shelves Librarians: Library Professionals Worry Bargain- Hunting Firms Will Look to Outsourcing" "Outsourcing Library Services: Death Knell for the Profession or An Idea Whose Time Has Come?" Now come and see for yourself. You've read the headlines. You've heard the reports of library closures in some of the nation's leading corporations and institutions. You've seen familiar vendors shifting from ally to competitor. Is outsourcing the unavoidable outcome of the rise of the Virtual Library? Will end-user searching, document delivery services, universal Internet access, and other information technology developments merge with telecommuting, "virtual corporations", the global economy, and other broad business trends to finish institutionally based libraries and information centers? What happens to traditional information professionals in this new era? Do we ride along -- reducing costs and improving performance with creative integration of new external sources? Do we fall under the wheels of the new juggernaut -- watching our operations shut down, our jobs evaporate or constrict to a bare minimum, and our colleagues reading pink slips? Or do we join the enemy -- design end-user services and absorb library functions outside our institutions, convert our libraries into revenue centers instead of overhead drains, work only for people who understand the value of information because that's their business too? How do information professionals face the challenge of outsourcing the opportunities and the threats? Come to the SCOUG Seminar on Outsourcing. Fellow professionals who have dealt with different types of outsourcing will review strategies and experiences. Vendors offering alternative end-user and library services will discuss plans and products and explain how they do it better -- if they do it better. In this Information Age, no information professional can afford to fail in understanding this career-making, career-breaking trend. *************************************************** OUTSOURCING: BY YOU, FOR YOU, OR IN SPITE OF YOU. A comprehensive one-day seminar designed to help you address the important issues in outsourcing services in libraries and information centers. Sponsored by the Southern California Online Users Group, on behalf of librarians, library managers and directors and information specialists of all types and in all kinds of libraries. Here's Our Agenda Keynote An Outsourcing Sampler: Library Functions That Can be Outsourced and the Firms That Do It. Breakout Session I Technical Services Total Outsourcing Breakout Session II Reference and Research Services Support Services Lunch Guidelines for Successful Outsourcing Deciding What to Outsource How to Write A RFP What to Look For in a Vendor Managing The Contract --More-- Outsourcing: Improving the Process or Selling Out the Library? Law Libraries and the AALL Prospective Outsourcing One Year Later Insourcing and Other Alternatives to Outsourcing End Note: So What's All Of This Mean for the Profession? ********************************************* Here's A Few of Our Speakers Barbara Quint, Editor Searcher Magazine Barbara Winters, Technical Services, Wright State University, Ohio Tory Trotta, American Association of Law Librarians Mary Ann Nash, OCLC Pacific Rebecca Linzini, CARL Corporation TelTech Inc. Steve Coffman, FYI, County of Los Angeles Public Library Randy Marcinko, Past President, Dynamic Information and dozens of others vendors, exhibitors, and presenters covering all disciplines of the profession ************************************************** Here's Who Should Come Library Administrators Who Are Considering Outsourcing in Their Institutions Librarians and Information Professionals Who Are Concerned About the Impact of Outsourcing on Their Jobs and Institutions Companies, Schools and Other Institutions Who Are Interested in Alternatives to Traditional Library Services Free Lance LibrariansInterested in Potential Job Opportunities Technical Services Librarians -- Acquisitions and Collection Development Librarians -- Automation Librarians and Specialists -- Reference Librarians -- Online Librarians -- Information Brokers -- Law Librarians -- Corporate Librarians -- Medical Librarians -- Library School Students -- Library School Professors -- And Just About Anyone Who is Interested in Libraries and Librarians and The Future Of Our Profession. ******************************* And Here's How to Reserve Your Place Complete this form and enclose a check for $75.00 for Early Bird Registration ($85.00 after April 2nd), and mail it back to the address below. Lunch and handouts are included. Make checks payable to SCOUG. Then all you have to do is show up at the Industry Hills Sheraton at Azusa Road and Indusry Hills Parkway in the City of Industry at 8:30am on May 3rd and we will take care of the rest. If you need a map or further information, call Lynn Ecklund at Seek Information 818-242-2793. Name: Library: Address: --More-- City, St, Zip: Phone: Fax: Amount Enclosed: Send To: SCOUG c/o Seek Information Services 1600 Victory Blvd. Glendale, CA 91201 818-242-2793 seek@netcom.com
