Technical Services Interest Group

Grace Under the Pressure of OERs   1.51 MB   1 version
Uploaded - Jun 28, 2018
Open Education Resources (OERs) are an important component of affordable learning initiatives in education. Our university and state-wide consortium embraced a variety of affordable learning initiatives and joined the Open Textbook Network (OTN). Meanwhile Technical Services (which includes Collections) has faced pressure to collect, vet, and process sets of OERs quickly. As our colleagues are pushing for the adoption of OERs across campus, we had to find a way to process and load the records while still facing pressure to get them in the catalog as soon as possible. These e-book records will be showcased more than many of our other records. They will be highlighted in train the trainer workshops across the campus and state through OTN training and by our Design and Development team, so they must be easily discoverable and accessible for gathering and sharing across varying constituencies. This presentation will describe how we cope with the pressures of OERs on Technical Services by shifting workflows to prioritize OERs and creating procedures that take into consideration our local and consortial needs and practices. Mike Monaco; Coordinator, Cataloging Services, mmonaco@uakron.edu ; and Melanie McGurr; Associate Professor of Bibliography, Head, Electronic Services, Mmcgurr1@uakron.edu, Bierce Library, University of Akron

Rethinking Technical Services Job Duties; a Case Study fr...   2.62 MB   1 version
Uploaded - Jun 28, 2018
The Collection Management Services Department at Sacramento State University Library consisted of a number of smaller units that, over time, merged into one larger unit with the most recent merge occurring in early 2017. Concurrently, the University Library was transitioning to a consortial, twenty-three campus implementation of the library management system Alma, which presented an opportunity to rethink faculty and staff roles in light of a new, shared system. This presentation will detail the process and planning behind developing new areas of competency in collection assessment and visualization, cross training across the department to shift workload, as well as building collegiality by group participation in workflow analysis. Amy Kautzman, Dean & Director of the University Library, kautzman@csus.edu; Suzanna Conrad, Interim Associate Dean for Collection Management & Systems, suzanna.conrad@csus.edu ; Sacramento State University