Date: Tue, 10 Jun 1997 07:50:39 -0500
From: Patricia Kantner <kantner@OMNI.CC.PURDUE.EDU>
Subject: ALA Meeting Announcement

This announcement has been cross-posted to ACQNET, AUTOCAT, LIBADMIN,
and SERIALST.  Please excuse the duplication.

        ALCTS Heads of Technical Services of Medium-Sized
                Academic Libraries Discussion Group
                Saturday, June 28, 9:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m.
                Grand Hyatt Hotel, Farallon Room

 Topic: Technical Services Redesign Revisited: Librarian/Vendor
                        Perspectives

 9:30-11:00     Catherine Tierney (Stanford University) will present
                an update on Stanford's Redesign Project, touching on
                such issues as workflow reconfiguration, staff reallo-
                cation, outsourcing, and the effect of implementing a
                new automated system on the redesign process.  Lee
                Leighton (Univ. of California at Berkeley) and Cecily
                Johns (Univ. of California at Santa Barbara) will
                discuss the progress of redesign at their libraries.
                A general Q&A/discussion period will follow the
                presentations.

 11:20-12:30    Representatives from four vendors (Bob Schatz, Academic
                Book Center; Jeff Calcagno, Blackwell North America;
                Marda Johnson, OCLC; and Lynne Branche Brown, Yankee
                Book Peddler) will react to the librarians' comments
                and present their views on the implications of
                redesign.  Their focus will include changes in library/
                vendor and vendor/vendor relationships, how the move
                to outsourcing is changing vendor operations, and
                changes in pricing models.  General discussion will
                follow.

 For further information, contact:

 Patricia Kantner, Chair        Cynthia Clark, Vice-Chair/Chair-Elect
 Head, Technical Services       Asst. Univ. Librarian for Technical Services
 Purdue University Libraries    University of California, Irvine
 1534 Stewart Center, Rm. 372   P.O. Box 19556
 West Lafayette, IN 47909-1534  Irvine, CA 92713-9556
 Phone: (765) 494-2812          Phone: (714) 824-7221
 Fax: (765) 494-0156            Fax: (714) 824-2059
 E-mail: kantner@purdue.edu     E-mail: cclark@uci.edu

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 Patricia Kantner                    Phone: (765) 494-2812
 Head, Technical Services            Fax:  (765) 494-0156
 Purdue University Libraries         E-mail: kantner@purdue.edu
 1534 Stewart Center, Room 372
 West Lafayette, IN 47907-1534

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