As Co-Chairs of the ALCTS Creative Ideas in Technical Services Discussion
Group, we would like to solicit facilitators and recorders to assist with
the round table discussions for the Discussion Group's meeting at the ALA
Conference in San Francisco. The Discussion Group will meet on -- Monday,
June 30 from 11:30-12:30 -- PLEASE NOTE THE NEW MEETING TIME.

If you have not attended a meeting of this discussion group before, the
meetings consist of 13 round table discussion on 4 different topics.
Facilitators at each table assist in the free flow of discussion by
asking persons at that table to introduce themselves, keep track of the
meeting time, keep the discussion moving, and make sure participants
complete the evaluation form. Recorders participate in the discussion and
will also take notes of the discussion to turn into the two co-chairs.
The co-chairs will use those reports for an article (in which
facilitators and recorders will receive  acknowledgement) in a
professional journal.

The co-chairs will develop a list of questions for each topic that
facilitators will use in helping the discussion to keep moving.
Experience has shown, though, that very few tables make it through all
the questions in the time provided!

The topics for the Annual Conference's meeting are:

Role of Professional Catalogers in Organizing the Internet
Continuing Education for Technical Services Staff
Coping with Personnel Issues Due to Reorganization
Handling E-Journals

The deadline for volunteering is June 5, 1997.

If you would like to serve as a facilitator or a recorder, please specify
your choice and respond to:

Margaret Mering             Judy Johnson
MVM@UNLLIB.UNL.EDU   or     JUDYJ@UNLLIB.UNL.EDU
(402) 472-2517              (402) 472-3938