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ACRL Technical Services Interest Group lightning round presentations and business meeting

  • 1.  ACRL Technical Services Interest Group lightning round presentations and business meeting

    Posted Dec 14, 2015 11:39 AM

    The ACRL Technical Services Interest Group will sponsor lightning round presentations and a business meeting at ALA Midwinter in Boston. This meeting will take place on Saturday, January 9, 2016 from 4:30 – 5:30 pm at the Seaport Hotel, Plaza Ball Room A. The lightning rounds will focus on a variety of topics, all related to the work of technical services librarians in the academic setting.


    Lightning round presentations:


    Preparing Linked Data for Digital Repositories (Sai Deng, University of Central Florida)


    Technical Services librarian as project manager (Nastia Guimaraes, University of Notre Dame)


    Using Process Mapping to uncover workflow inefficiencies (Christine Dulaney, American University)


    Adventures in ETD metadata wrangling: Metadata workflows for a mass retrospective thesis and dissertation digitization project at the University of Massachusetts Amherst (Meghan Banach Bergin, University of Massachusetts Amherst)


    The Good, the Bad and the Ugly Scans and Metadata: Employing students as workflows change in Academic Library Technical Services Departments (Linda Evans, Henderson State University)


    The Value of Soft Skills in Technical Services (Penny Lochner, Muhlenberg College)